The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-01

Is the dead body of Joseph A. Hart
mann, the lad the police name as the
accomplish of Edward Gottschalk in the
murder of Christian H. Schindeldecker.
buried in the icy waters of Pickerel
lake?
This is a question which came home
to Chief O'Connor and his men with
startling directness when yesterday
morning Charles Hartmann, father of
the missing boy, came to police head
quarters with the accusation that Gott-
schalk had rid himself, last Monday, of
a dangerous witness to the Schindel-
decker murder by pushing the boy into
a hole in the ice of the lake.
Hartmann disappeared from his home
on the Monday following the murder.
He said that he was going fishing when
he left. Witnesses nave reported to
the police that they saw him and Gott-
schalk walking towards Pickerel lake
the Sunday before, and the two had
been in the habit of going there to-
gether to fish.
Gottschalk returned to his home that
night. So far as is known to the po-
lice Hartmann has not been seen in ST.
Paul since that time.
Yesterday noon Gottschalk was
brought from the county Jail, where he
has been since Sunday morning and
was confronted in police headquarters
by Charles Hartmann, the father, who
openly accused him Of numbering his
son Joe Hartmann.
The situation was arranged with a
view to bringing out to the utmost
dramatic possibilities in the hope that
the nerve Of the accused murderer
might break and that he would betray
himself if he were guilty of the charge.
G~ottschaIk Is Careful
Before the awful charge of murder
ing his alleged confederate and tool in
crime, coming as it did so close upon
the heels of the first charge of MUIR
dering Schindeldecker, the West Sew
enth street butcher, Gottschalk main
tanned the same coldness and indiffer-
ence that has marked his attitude ever
since he was arrested. He calmly de-
MED the charge and said that ne knew
nothing whatever of the whereabouts
of young Hartmann.
Aside from acknowledging that he
was fishing with Hartmann on the
Sunday following. the murder of, Schin-
deldecker he admitted nothing, not
even that he went fishing with the lad
On the next Monday. 1nt~errogations
and pleadings from the anxious father
resulted alike.
Ever since his arrest Gottschalk has
carefully studied his every reply that
he might O incriminate himself by
talking. Yesterday he held to this
purpose, and at last he was ordered
taken back to his cell, further ques-
tioning being evidently useless.
On the way back to the Jail, in charge
of a guard of detectives. Gottschalk's
temper, which UP to that time had been
remarkably we'll under control, broke
all pounds and, while his black eyes
biazed fire, he exclaimed:
-- you fellows, you want to
hang me, don't you? Well, go ahead,
/ don't care. L"
The prisoner checked himself as sud-
denly as he started in his outburst and,
grinding his teeth with rage, resumed
the moody, morose silence which has
marked his brief career in jail.
The elder Hartmann, while not adj
hitting that his son was concerned IN
the murder of Christian H. Schindel-
decker, is set in the belief that the
reason Joe has not returned home is
that he is dead. pushed under the ice
by Gottschalk. He thinks that Joe
knew something of the murder, some
thing which Gottschalk feared he
might reveal and SO that way was
taken of silencing the tongue.
Police Take No Chances
While the police give a great deal of
credence to the theory held by the
elder Hartmann, they do not consider
1t seriously enough as yet to %relinquish