Andrew Tapper, a bartender, committed the deed and Miss Rosa Mix, a hired girl, was his victim. Both were employed by John Leonard, proprietor of the Balser House. The girl was 20- years-old and her parents live in Montgomery.
Tapper used a large knife, and cut two large gashes in the girl’s throat and one in her left shoulder. He then went to the river and tried to drown himself, but failed.
He returned to the house, saw the girl lying on the floor in a pool of blood, and then started off down the park road with the marshal after him. He is now safely behind bars in the county jail at Chaska.
Jealousy is supposed to have been the motive of the crime. Trapper was a suitor of Miss Mix, but had been repeatedly rejected by her. The indignation of citizens is at a high point, but the law will probably be permitted to take its course, the facts being so clear that punishment is certain. Miss Mix’s parents have been notified of the murder, but have not reached Carver as yet.
The Minneapolis Journal; “Murder at Carver. Andrew Tapper, a Bartender, Cuts the Throat of a Girl. Attempts Suicide by Drowning. Returns to Look at his Victim and Is Caught by the Town Marshal.”; June 3, 1901; p. 1.
Photos taken by Pamela J. Erickson.
Released into the public domain June 3, 2015,
as long as acknowledgement included.
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