| Show committed suicide in jail st paul blinn edward gottschalk under tinder sentence of death committed suicide by hanging in the ha county jail wednesday afternoon the guard alio ho had been with him constantly since sentence of death was pas passed ed absented himself for about ten minutes and when hen he be re turned to the condemned mans cell gottschalk was mas dead gottschalk had bad ia torn rn a piece ot of ticking from his hie bed and winding minding one cn nl I 1 about lit hia neck fastened the lite other crid to a hook in the wall mail of the cell raised himself from the floor and strangled sti angled to death gottschalk in february last mur dered christian IL a butcher in Ms his shop on a prominent business street hacking backing ills his victim to pieces ft ith a meat cleaved cleavet A young fellow named joseph hartmann was mas associated vi with ith him in the crime soon after the murder the body of hart man heavily wet ehUd with iron was found in the mississippi river near fort snelling ills hla llull had been crushed gottschalk Golt schalk confessed to the murder at 0 IT artmann claiming he acted in self seli defense ile ho denied hav ing killed decer saying that he watched outside while hartmann murd murdered r e d the butcher |
