The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-13
GIRLS AND OVERCOATs,
Two Prisoners Suspected of a Double
Devotion.


George Y. Hess and Paul Eicholz
were the Ssnames given by two well
dressed yQHths who were taken In tow
py detectives Werrick and Wells last
evening. Both prisoners are charged
with the larceny, Of a couple of over
coats. The owner of one of the coats
Is FRANK Partridge. a waiter at the
Tivon concert rail. but the name of the
man Who IS Short the other garment
has not yet developed.
yesterday afternoon Detective Wer-
rick was Informed that two men had
SOFA a like number of overcoats at
Sheais livery barn. He obtained a
description of the fellows and after a
look at the coats expressed the opin-
Ion mat one of the pennies" belonged
70 partridge. This opinion was veri-
neu by partridge. Hess was found at
the I1voi saloon and Eicholz was cap
tured at a dance at Labor hall. Both
were locked up and will have hearing
IN the police court today.
Detective Werrick says the young
men are the two who were responsible
Tor the disappearance Of the Elmquist
girls week or so ago. The young
Women'S parents live at Marine Mills,
Mimi, and one Of them was employed
as a domestic on South Victoria street
The other had a position of like char
acter In the same neighborhood. In
some way the two girls became ac-
qua1nted with Hess and Eicholz, and
AFTER listening to the Establishments of
the youths decided they were cut out
for the fstoige" Messrs Hess and
E1cholz Immediately commenced to
train the ElmquiSt sisters fer their de-
but, 1t was decided that the names of
the girls were not at all artistic and
that the "Elmquist Sisters" would not
strike the public. Accordingly a card
announcing that the -Four Bernards, y
Gladys, Dottie, Paul and George, were
open for engagements, was drawn up
and couple of hundred of the paste
boards printed. In the meantime,
Gladys and Dottie, as the Elmquist
girls were known, were progressing in
their training for the stage under the
guidance of Paul and George" the
other members of 1.-THE Bernards. -
About this time the gentleman for
whom one of them worked obtained an
inkling of the proposed dramatic career
of his kitchen maid and her sister and
wrote a letter to the father of the girls
at Marine Mills
Mr.. Elmquist didn't think much cf
the dramatic venture as far as his
daughters were, concerned, and hied
himself to st. Paul on the first train
The Servicessof the detectives were Sc
cured by the father of the stage-strucI1
damsels, they having in the meantime
left their places as domeStics and gone
to Minneapolis with their tutors. After
a search of a day or so, the girls were
found in Minneapolis, and the nature
OF the dramatic venture being eX-
planned to them, they concluded to quit
the stage and go back to the farm at
Marine Mills Mr.. Elmquist did not
want any more publicity, and the dra
matte agents were allowed to pick out
ether gullible young women who were
willing to go in training for the stage
and, Incidentally, to make up the -Four
Bernards.' ~
Since this episode Hess and Eicholz
have been hanging about the Twin
Cities, and, as the police claim picking
up oVercoats whenever they came
handy Several days ago Hess had
William Teschier and Samuel Laff ar
rested for the larceny of his overcoat
from the ante room at Labor hail
while a dance was in progress. The
case against Laff and Teschier was
finally dismissed in the police court
yesterday.
The police are very anxious to To-
cate the owner of the second coat sold
by the twain-yestePday, and any one
having lost a large black ulster is re-
-quested to call at police headquarters
and identify the coat. Hess claims II
live in Minneapolis, and Eicholz talks
very glibly about his acquaintance in
Duluth. B..