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==People== {| class="wikitable" |+ !Type !Name !(Born-Died) !Description |- |Victim |Osten, Pearl |1907-1927 |beaten and strangled |- | rowspan="3" |Suspects |"man in small coupe" | |accosted Pearl Friday night |- |"negro and white man" | |unidentified, released |- |young man on street car | |a young man, well dressed, accompanied her from streetcar |- | rowspan="20" |Witnesses |Aas, Nora | |friend of Pearl's |- |Anderson, Mrs. Effie | |passenger on street car |- |Bergesen, Rev. B. E. | |pastor of Zion Luthern Church, their church in Minneapolis |- |Christianson, Adolph | |harvest worker and lodger in Wisconsin |- |Dorinski, Charles | |saw a man loitering about the Langseth house |- |Hayes, Mark | |passenger on the streetcar |- |Huisinger, M. L. | |identified black man as loitering near shed |- |Kempff, Mrs. A. W. | |passenger on street car |- |Kerner, Johnny |c1915-? |found the body |- |Logowski, Joe | |passenger on street car, paid not particular attention |- |Munson, Mrs. John | |previous landlord to Pearl |- |Nelson, Dr. Frank | |President of Minnesota College |- |Nelson, Mrs. Helma | |landlord to Charles Dorinski |- |Nelson, Melvin | |boy playing with Johnny Kerner when Pearl was found |- |Nelson, Mrs. | |mother of Melvin Nelson, talked to police |- |Panning, A. E. | |proprietor of the Jolly Peasant Tea Room |- |Roffler, Robert F. | |street car conductor, witness |- |Salchert, Mrs. H. | |neighbor, heard nothing |- |Sanbeck, Dagny |c1913-? |heard screams |- |Severs, Carl | |passenger on the streetcar |- | rowspan="8" |Officers & Investigators |Bell, Dr. E. T. | |performed autopsy with Coroner |- |Brunskill, Frank W. | |Superintendent of Police |- |Crummy, Andrew | |Capt of the Detectives. |- |Forby, William | |Detective |- |Hanaford, Walter | |Detective |- |Helwig, Richard | |Detective |- |Marxon, Al | |Detective |- |Seashore, Gilbert | |Coroner |- | rowspan="5" |Family |Hovland, Theo Mathilde |1871-1957 |mother of Pearl |- |Lanseth, Alma Osten |1897-1992 |sister to Pearl |- |Lanseth, Johan Melvin |1889-1959 |brother-in-law to Pearl |- |Osten, Alma {Langseth/Shields) |1897-1992 |sister to Pearl |- |Osten, Martin Andreas Simon |1867-1956 |father of Pearl |}
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