Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1889 — TIM AND PETE BARRETT. [ARTICLE]

TIM AND PETE BARRETT.

The Murder of Car-Driver Tollefson Avenged at Minneapolis, Minn. Timothy and Peter Barrett died on the scatfold in the County Jail at Minneapolis, Minn., for the murder of Thomas Tollefson, a street-cur driver. Fathers James and Henry McGolrick and Father Corbett, of the Catholic Church, attended the men. The brothers died game. Henry, Timothy, and Peter Barrett, brothers, of unsavory reputation, robbed the cash-box of a street-car and killed the driver, Thomas Tollefson, late on the night of July 26, 1887. The Barretts were arrested. Henry turned State’s evidence, and on his evidence Tim and Pete were convicted and sentenced to hang. Two shots were fired at Tollefson, the first, fired by Pe;e, struck the driver in the leg. Henry and Pete then ran away. Within a minute Tim fired a shot which killed Tollefson. lim then took the cash-box, with S2O in it, and joined Henry and Pete. After a number of trials and a stay granted by the Supreme Court, the Governor fixed the time of execution for Friday, March 22. Monroe Wilkinson, colored, was hanged at Scottville, Ky.. for murdering Berry Manion, colored. Sept. 22, 1888, at a Sun-day-school picnic.