Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-08-23
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MINNEAPOLIS POLICE RECOGNIZE
PRISONER AS COMPANION
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JuHL IS AN ESCAPED CONVICT
Last Chapter Of Thrilling Criminal Rec.
ord.-Hunted Man Haunted Twin
Cities After the Death Of
Bandit.

MlnneapOuS. - The man who
shot and mortally wounded Detective
Frank Fraser Of the st. Paul police
department on a Selby-Lake street
car was identified as Peter Juhl. no.
torious convict and partner in crime
OF Jerry Mccarthy, the outlaw who
was killed in a pistol battle with Pa
trolman Olinger on the night of July
Is. He admits his identity.
Detective Prayer died In the hospital
after lingering nearly two days.
Captain of Detectives Smith of the
minneapolis department positively
identified the man, although his hair
was dyed black and he had grown heav-
Ter by 20 pounds since he was con-
victed Of burglary in this city q little
over a year ago.
For many weeks the desperate has
been making his home in st. Paul and
has def1ed the police of that city with
as much recklessness as Jerry Nc
Carthy Haunted his presence before the
members Of Chief Mealey's force here
few weeks ago.
Juhl was never considered a verv
desperate character by the police, who
always insisted he was a coward and
not to be classed with Mccarthy, who
was brave to foolhardiness. They be-
lieve, however, that his association
with that criminal changed his char
acter to a certain degree. especially
after he read of his pals sanguine bat
Gle with the giant policeman, which re-
suited In the death of both.
. JuhI Feared Recognition.
Juhl would in all probability have
escaped Identification had he not
opened fire on Detective Fraser, who
did net recognize him. It is supposed
the escaped convict Immediately rec.
ognized the detective, however, and,
believing he had in turn been recog-
nized by the policeman, pulled his re-
volver and shot, trusting to luck to
escape from the car after he had dis
patched the officer. It was only the
strength and tenacity of the wounded
detective that frustrated him in his de-
signs.
Juhl is only "a years old and a
small man, being only feet 6 inches
tall and weighing not over $50 pounds.
He was arrested in Nebraska for at.
tempt to kill and sent to the state pris-
on Of that state for three years on
March II, 1906. At that time he went
under the name of Walter Davis.
Detectives Gallagher Howard and
Johnson arrested him in Minneapolis
on March 26, 1910, for burglary. He
had broken into a jewelry store,
few days before and stolen several hun
dred dollars worth of diamonds,
watches and other jewelry. He was
found guilty and sentenced to nine
years in the state prison at Saltwater,
to which place he was sent June 4 of
the same year. Just nine months later
on March 4, 1911, he made his escape
In company with Jerry Mccarthy.
. It was one Of the most daring and
clever escapes on record. For 10 years
no prisoner had escaped from Still
water. It - believed, however, that
Mccarthy was the moving spirit and
that he selected Juhl as his accomplice
believing he would make a willing
tool. Mccarthy was an expert ma
chinist and succeeded in manufacture
ing keys with which he opened the
two cell doors and then the pair scaled
the walls of the penitentiary and dis
appeared, followed by hail of bullets
from the guards, who, however, were
unable to stop the fleeing men.
That they received outside help is
considered certain by the prison off,
Gals, who organized posse and
secured the neighborhood for many
days without avail. 1t was later
learned that Mccarthy went to the
home of Fred A. Briggs in Northeast
Minneapolis, where he obtained
change of clothing and money. Briggs
is now in the county Jail under indict-
ment awaiting trial for completely
with Mccarthy in some of his daring
ly executed robberies.