The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-04-13
STOLEN!
Twenty-Five Notes Stolen from a
Safe in Broad Day Light.
Stem o. kOlen Finds Himself Short
OF |. O. US to the Tune of
Nearly $1,000.
he Makes the Discovery a Week
After the Crime May Have
Been Committed.


Been Committed.
twenty-five promissory notes were
stolen from the safe of Sten o. Kolen,
in Belview, this county. some time
since March Both, the exact date being
unknown. The notes ranged in
amounts from SIS to $50, we're all
bearing interest at the rate of either
eight or ten per cent per annum, and
were all nearly, if not past due. The
total footings Of the twenty-five lit
tie missing instruments makes the neat
sum of nearly $1,000.
just how they were pilfered from
the safe is mystery, and the three
persons in Belview who were aware of
the disappearance up to the time of
the GAZETTE reaching there, are en-
gagged in attempting to find some clue
to the mystery but so far it has availed
them naught. Mr.. Kolen, naturally
quiet, is silent and meditative, while
Squire Gimmestad, who has his office
in Mr.. Kolen's store, finds it difficult
to imagine that thievery has been go
ing on right under the nose of his
court.
Mr.. Kolen made the discovery that
the documents were missing about a
week ago. He kept them, together
with another package of notes in a
large pocket-book in small iron safe
in his store. The untouched package
contained notes amounting to nearly
1000, and the fact that they were not
disturbed leads to the conclusion that
the thief was frightened while COM
mitting his crime. MIR. Kolen declares
that he locks his safe carefully every
night, and that he last saw the pack
age of missing notes about two weeks
ago. He occasionally leaves his store
for i period Of ten or ftaen minutes
at atime, and his. own theory is that
the culprit slipped into the store
while Re was out attending to business,
and getting at the probably opened
safe, stole the package of notes, and
was frightened before he received the
other package.
Mr.. Kolen gave to a representative
of this paper the list of notes that
were stolen, and the amounts of each,
which he keeps in small book in the
same pocket book where the notes
were stored. All of them were due
or past due, and as before stated, were
drawing eight and ten per cent inter-
est. The only use that thief could
have for them would either be to forge
Mr.. Kolen's name to the same, or sell
the same to the promissor at big re-
duction. The latter would be danger
Gus, however, as some one OF the num-
Der might be inclined to expose him.
The names of the signees and the
amounts Of each note, are as follows:
Peter Eischsn, $55; CLAUS Cole, 1871. 81
Jalmund Christensen, $58; John Os-
]und, $40; Gust Anderson, $23; An
drew Erickson $26.5O; Andrew Err
ickson, $76; Rudolph Hoppenrath, $l4;
Robert Rickell, $40; A. Loken, $40;
A. o. Gibbs, 27.50; Robert Scott, $40;
w. Shirts, $27; James Brown, $27 so;
Ole Larson, $40; Ole Larson, $40;
Archie McDougal, ST.; Peter Manney,
$l7; E. D. Buchke, $21.35; O. A.
Berger, $77.67; Andrew Anderson,
$33.75; and w. S. Wyman, SIS.
The theft was probably the most
daring ever committed in this section
of the State, as it must have been done
in broad day light, and with the in
tention of breaking the safe, if neces-
sary. There is no money missing.