Show committed suicide in jail st paul minn rdward gottschalk under sentence of death committed by hanging in the county jail wednesday afternoon the guard who had been with him constantly since sentence of death was passed absented hi for about ten minutes and when he re turned to the condemned man s cell gottschalk was dead gottschalk had torn a piece of ticking from his bed and winding one end about his neck fastened the other end to a hook in the wall 0 the cell raised bieselt from the floor and strangled to death gottschalk in 1 february last mur dered christian a butcher in his shop on a prominent business street hacking his victim to pieces with a meat cleaver A young fellow named joseph ll artmann was associated wath him in the crime soon after the murder the body p hart man heavily weighted with iron was found in the mississippi river near fort snelling ills skull had been crushed gottschalk confessed to the murder of II artmann claiming he acted in self defense he denied hav ing killed saying that he watched outside while ll artmann murdered the butcher |