St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-20
STORK TO GO BACK.
An Iowa Sheriff Arrives With Rcqui-
SftiOn PAPERS.

Sheriff j. Q. Winter, Of Tama county,
Iowa, arrived from Des Moines yes
terday with requisition papers for Nat
Stork, the peddler now in the county
jail, who is accused of maltreating a
young girl recently in Tama county.
The sheriff was accompanied by H.
Brothers, a iveryman, of Garwin, Tama
county, who came to identify Stork.
But when the Sheriff and his COM
panion went to the Jail, Stork him.
self was the first to recognize Broth
ers. ooh, you're the fellow that hired
the team of down at Garwin," eX-
claimed the prisoner. Garwin is only
three miles from the scene Of the al
legged crime, and it was there that
Stork secured the team with which he
drove to the farm house. Stork said
he was willing to go back to Iowa at
once if necessary. Sheriff Winters will
wait, however, until his requisition has
been formally granted today by Gov.
Clough. The three men will probably
start back to Iowa this evning. 1t is
not expected now that Stork will at
tempt to seek his liberty under habeas
corpus proceedings.
The visiting sheriff brings with him
as part of his requisition papers the
original affidavit made before a justice
of the peace by Stork's alleged victim.
Her story differs somewhat from the
account that has heretofore been given.
Her name is Margaritha Brandt, and
she is eighteen years old. She says
that she came from Germany last Oc-
tober,s and has been living with her
married sister, Mrs. Sieton, on a
farm, three miles west of Garwin. The
morning of Jan. 10 she was alone in the
house when a man drove up to the
door. He spoke German. Learning
that no one else but the young girl
was at home, he told her that his name
was DR.. Snyder, and that he was an
eye doctor. Let me look at your eyes,
he said. "They ought to be treated. -
Margarine replied that her eyes were
not in need of treatment, but the man
at once took hold of her and perpe-
trated the crime with which Stork
is charged. Then he told her not to
say a word or he would come back and
kill her. But she informed her sister
a few hours later. Saturday Sheriff
Winter was notified at Toledo, ten
miles distant He soon learned that
two men, one of whom resembled DIR.
Snyder had left Toledo in a hired
buggy Friday afternoon, for Marshall
town. At Marshalltown the sheriff
found the name of Il. Mendel," sup
posed to be one of the men, registered
at the Pilgrim hotel. But neither Men
del or Stork could be discovered. The
former said afterwards that he and
Stork took fright just in time, and
walked from Marshalltown eight miles
to a railroad station, from which they
started north. At Mason City they
made the serious mistake Of telegraph
ing back to the landlord of the Pilgrim
house to forward their baggage and
merchandise by express to ST. Paul.
Sheriff Winter was quickly informed
by the landlord SO that Detective Size,
of Marshalltown, could be sent on to
st. Paul. Mendel and Stork were thus
easily arrested at the United States
express office in this city last Wednes-
day.
Sheriff Winter says that the excite
ment in Tama county is abating, and
that Stork will have no reason to fear
a mob