The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-07-16
MURRAY MUCH BETTER
GORDON UNDER ARREST
Latter Is Suspected Of Being
Assailant of Former
DENIES THAT Ne IS the MAN
However, Kenneth Gibson Claims That
Fellow Is The Guilty One; Arrested
At FaribaUlt

Although reported dead as many
as 'steen times, good progress at ST.
Joseph's hospital To q speedy recov-
cry has been made by Michael Muir
ray. the man who had a close call
when assailed with a razor near the
circus grounds Monday night. while
the authorities have been running
down and capturing the man accused
of doing the deed. But this man has
declared his innocence.
On this errand Sheriff Anton Os-
ten, Chief OF Police Klugherz and
Kenneth Gibson, circus attache for the
time being but regularly a Pinkerton
detective. went to Faribault In an
automobile. They arrived In the city
at 1926. had lunch, talked with the
chief of police of Faribault and then
went out to the grounds where the
same circus, the Sells-Floto and
Buffalo Bill show, was located. Mr..
McCloskey, the ticket manager and
advance agent met them and showed
them every courtesy, telling them
they might look all through the
grounds and to report TO him II any
trouble occurred. Mr.. Gibson said
he thought he could pick out the feli
low who did the cutting. Mr.. Glib
son himself walked around the cir
Gus grounds for a while, and said he
had located the man in the horse
ring tent. The latter was all bat
tered up about the face. These in
juries he was supposed to have re-
ceived while two men had hold of
hfV, the niroVtg 8rnttyaIu nt Man
kato, just after the assault with the
razor had been committed. While
the search was being made, a man
on the grounds tried to give the
searching party a bad steer, and
make them believe the man they
wanted was not on the grounds.
Sheriff osten Made the Arrest.
The sheriff and chief went over to
the horse ring tent. The man that
Mr.. Gibson recognized had ON a light
blue shirt. He c~orresponded in every
way with the description that the
officers had received about him. The
sheriff accosted the man and read TO
him the John Doe warrant that had
been issued, charging assault in the
second degree. The man vas taken
into the auto and driven out OF the
grounds and taken on TO Mankato.
The prisoner gave the name OF Al
fred Gordon. He declared that he
was battered up in another city on
the fifth day of July. when the circus
was there. The officers did not be-
lieve this however thinking the
wounds he had on his face were fresh
enough to have been received only
last Monday. The prisoner denied
that he was the man. He wanted To
know II there was any witness to
prove that he was the mar He said
he was not at the place at that time
and had nothing to do with the trou-
Bile.
KIuaherz Asked Direct Question.
The first thing that Chief Klugherz
said to him was to ask directly the
question. "Why did you cut that man
at Mankato?" The chief says the
man hesitated and was confused In
thinking up some answer to make.
The PARTY arrived on the return to
Mankato at 4:50 yesterday afternoon.
| The prisoner was arraigned and his
hearing was set for ten o'clock this
morning.. Inc JUL was hASu /" INV
sum of $500. This was not fur
| nished and the man spend the night
in jail.
Given Preliminary Examination.
Gordon's preliminary hearing last
ed less than two hours in the police
court this morning. and he was held
by Judge w. A. Plymat to await the
action of the district court. His bond
was fixed I'm the sum of $4,000 and he
was committed to the jail, being un-
| able to furnish II.
Kenneth Gibson. the young man
who has been employed by the circus
as a waiter during his vacation, alb
solutely identified Gordon Is the man
| whom he had seen I'm a struggle with
another man, who afterward lay with
| his throat gashed.
Harry Hannah identified Gordon
as the man whom two Of the circus
| employees caught and pounded just
after the affair, but whom they let
60 after a time. because nc police Of
| icer came to take him.
Gordon had marks on his face this
morning. Mr.. Gibson declared that
he had seen him a short time before
the fight and there were no marks on
| his face then. Gordon had tried to
make out that he got the marks some
days before.
The state had a number OF other
witnesses. :.
The side of the state was conduct
ed by County Attorney schmitt- Cor