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DES MOINES CONSTABLE KILLED.Special to the Dubuque llerald.Dks Moines, March 7.—Constable Logan, of Valley township, aged about 35 and married, lies dead in the rear of Hurl bert, Hess Co.'s wholesale drug store,with Coroner Griffith conducting the inquest. He entered the store about 6:30 to-night and found teamsters Joe Low and llagerman at the rear. He asked Low if Hagerman had a shipping permit. Low, who recently had trouble with Con stable Pierce regarding a seizure of Hurl-bert, Hess Co.’e beer, made a surly answer and a quarrel followed in which Hagerman states that Logan struck at Low and drawing a revolver fired, the ball barely missing Hagerman. Low pulled a revolver and fired once, the ball entering the right lung and passing out on that side. Logan fell and died in a few minutes of internal hemorrhage. Low, who is married, was arrested and lodged in jail. It does not appear that Constable Logan claimed to hazea warrant. The news of the shtkiting creates great, though subdued feeling, especially since Constable Pierce seized a large lot of spirits and beer from another drug store this evening. The drug store where the homicide occurred holds pharmacy permits, but the car load recently seized by Constable Pierce wasordered destroyed last week, and while they were iudisposed to talk over the tragedy it was plain that they felt deep sympathy for Low and very little for his victim. The inquest will be hardly finished to-night. The public will receive the verdict with great interest, as the expression was rife to night that the enforcers were rigorous and arbitrary in their methods. The inquest has been adjourned till to-morrow.
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Dubuque Daily Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Tue, Mar 08, 1887
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