The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-05-15

husband died five years ago.
Burr came to the city two weeks
ago with the Buffalo Bill circus, he
having made his living by travelling
around the country with q small pho
tograph gallery outfit. Last summer
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he had gallery at the Spring Gar
den entrance to Fairmount park.
Shinn had been in his employ OF and
on for nineteen years.
McGinley, 1t Is said, was once
prosperous saloonkeeper who drank
heavily until his business melted
away, ~
It 10 believed s. shinn worked
himself into freAaxe e.oause Of the
fact that he and hiss. b, we're being
pressed by their lanhs ,r rent,
and that the drink completesoc. dis
organised mental condition Sexn Ne
cited the wholesale murder plan. -
Myers, an engineer employed by G2
Flavers Chewing Gum company, at
Twenty-fourth and Ralston streets,
tells q story that throws some light
upon the affair. The door Of the en-
gine room looks directly ON the back
door Of the Shinn house, at 1888 Raj
st0n street.
Just q few minutes before the three
were found dead Myers was talking
with Burr. The latter walked over to
the engine room and stood chatting
with the engineer. During the con-
versation he said:
I'm going to put that d. loafer to
work (referring to Shinn.) He's been
working for me for nineteen years
and I can't get him to stick to any
thing"
Myers says the man went on to tell
how he had come to town with the
circus and stopped with the shinns.
About this time, declares Myers,
Shinn came to the back. door Of the
house and yelled to Burr:
Come In and have some beer"
A moment later he came to the
door and yelled:
Come on in, or I'll kill you"
When Burr got to the door, Shinn
fxrabbe6 him TIN u thoutders and
pushed him into the kitchen, declares
Myers. %.'' as7i f
II : few minutes. declares Myers,
shinn and Burr went out together
and returned In few minutes bear
ing q can of beer. Burr carried the
can. a
The supposition is that Shinn plac-
ed the cyanide crystals In the beer
soon after they entered the house. In
q statement to the police Mrs. Shinn
declares she drank but one glass be-
cause Of the bitter taste Of the beer.
She says the others drank two.
Cyanide for Photographer.
According to the woman's story
he husband and Burr had arranged
to start q photograph gallery at Nine
teenth street and Hunting Park ave-
nue. for the remaining days that Ring
ling's circus Is to remain in the city.
They went down town yesterday and
purchased supplies. Among the ar
ticles purchased. 1t is said, was the
cyanide Of potassium.
The woman says Burr did not wear
his overcoat yesterday, and cannot
explain how the receptacle got in the
pocket. The police say this points
conclusively to their theory that
Shinn slipped 1t in there to divert
suspicion.
The can had contained half pound
OF cyanide Of potassium, from which
several ounces had been taken. 1t
bore a label, Cyanide, pure," but
without the name Of the firm from
which 1t was purchased.
The box Of poison and the can
which held the beer are in the pos
session OF the coroner's detectives.
There remained In the can a small
quantity Of beer. which is being an
alyzed today for the particles Of the
poison.
The money for yesterdays orgy
was furnished by Burr. The police
have learned that he pawned q watch
Yesterday about noon at Nineteenth
and Market streets and received 81.
Where the money for the liquor con-
sumed before yesterday was obtained
has not been learned although it is
determined that all five persons were
In sore financial straits.
Mckinley. the police say, has given
them considerable trouble from time
to time. It 10 alleged that he con-
Quoted "speakeasy" in the Fifteenth
ward several years ago, and was
chased from place to place about the
city by the police. .. .970
Fell Unconscious IN Street,
Attention was first drawn to the
triple tragedy In the Ralston street
house when Michael Mckinley fell un-
conscious to the pavement at Twen-
ty-fourth and Ralston streets. Po-
liceman Buxby sent for the petrol Of
the Twentieth and Buttonwood street
station and had the man removed to
the Garretson hospital
On the way BuSby noticed that Nc
GinIoy acted 0u00rly. Dir n 9,,t