Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-06-14
A BOLD and
BRUTAL MURDER
Blacksmith Lindroth Shot and
Instantly Killed in His Shop,
Saturday Morning.

"A horrible murder has been CON-
mltted in our city, the first crime
OF the kind to sullv her fair name.
Andrew Linderoth the blacksmith.
was shot down in his own shop in
broad day light last Saturday fore
noon, somewhere about ten O'Clock.
lie had stood in the doorway of the
shop and talked to citizens who pass
ed by less than half an hour or there
abouts before the tragedy must have
occurred. Howard Magladry, the II
year-old son of G. G. Magladry, was
the first one to make the gruesome
discovery. He had passed by the
shop on his way from down town SELL
ing papers and had seen Linderoth at
the window. The boy had gone in
to O. G.. Valtinson's house, almost
opposite, to have some coupons cut !
from the papers, and then started
across the street to sell Mr.. Linde-
roth a paper. Opening the door he
was horrified to find Mr.. Linderoth
lying face downward on the floor in
a pool of blood. He Immediately
called Bennie VaItinson, who was
working outside the power house, to
come over. Bennie did so and then
ran back again to the power house
to tell John Barlow, the engineer in
charge.
Mr.. Barlow IAN over to the shop
and after looking in hurried down
town to get the doctor and tell the
police. On his way down he met N.
Mansfield on the sidewalk. Barlow
told John ,Halyorson, of the Windsor
Buffet, who hurried to the shop, and
was the first grown man to enter.
He looked to see if there were any
signs of life, but found none. A
number of citizens had by this time
arrived, among them Marshal Dady,
and soon after, Sheriff Forsberg, who
ordered the premises locked and at
once notified the coroner, DR.. O. F.
Me(by, at Argyle, who came down on
the afternoon freight. The local
physicians we're busy with an oper-
alton at the hospital at the time and
could not come at once. The i'm
preston that most people got was
that it was either a case of suicide,
or accidental death from the BURST
ing of blood vessel. as no one could
think it possible that a murder had
been committed in broad daylight in
a populous part Of the city.
The investigation of Coroner Mel
by and the other officers disclosed the
fact that death had bcen caused by a
gunshot wound in the left side.
The bullet had taken an upward
course and had first passed through
the heart and then through one lung
and had lodged in the mans back
near the shoulder. Death must have
been instantaneous, Mr.. Linderoth
having evidently fallen on the very
spot he stood when the fatal bullet
was fired at him. The authorities
at first took the suicide theory, but
the absence of any weapon or any
sign whatever pointing to self-des-
truction, forced them to abandon
that solution of the affair. The shop
was carefully searched, but only an
old shot gun was found on shelf,
rusty and worn, with nc indication
Of having been used for years. The
barrel alone of an old rifle was found
in box covered with scrap iron, but
shows no indication of having been
used. The ball had been fired at
close range, as a large hole had been
burned in his coat and the skin on
the body, where it had entered, was
singed. The bullet, which in pene-
trating may have lost some of its
ginal shape, looks to be about the
size Of 44-caliber, but only about
half as long; one that it appears had
been used inzan old style fre-a arm.
Lodged close to the bullet in the
body of Lindroth was found a paper
wad which when unfolded was found
to contain the following words: "He
bane Faller'' Popular Prices''
Tonight. Evidently from poster
;or newspaper advertisement of some
ssYon Yonson'' show.
A coroner's jury was summoned at
ten O'Clock Saturday night. It con-
sist Of the following citizens: Fl. J.
March, G. G. Winchester, D. Farrell.
Moses Holson H. /. Golden, and
Iver Winberg. This jury was in
session all night, and have not yet