The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-23
MRS. ELIZABETH GREILICH TELLS
THE POLICE OF A DAYLIGHT
THEFT.
WAS ON HER WAY TO A BANK
WHERE SHE INTENDED TO MAKE
A DEPOSIT OF HER
MONEY,
JosTLED AND UPSET IN A STREET.
When She ReEained Her Feet the
Unknown Thief Had Disappeared
With the Money.

| Mrs. Elizabeth Greilich, boarding at
| 396 East Sixth street. reported to the
police yesterday that she had been
robbed of $500 in cash. Mrs. Greilich
came to ST. Paul about a week ago
| from Newark, N. j., and since her ar
| rival in the city has been stopping at
| the number above mentioned She was
stranger in the city and in looking
about for quiet place to room and
board visited the residence of Charles
A. Botzen. Mrs. Greilich has not been
| playing in very good luck for some
months past She was married about
a year ago to Dr. Gustave Greilich, in
Berlin, Germany. A few months after
! her marriage her husband died and
! later her infant child passed away.
! The shock of her husbands death, fol-
! lowed by that of her child, naturally
| had a very depressing effect and Mrs.
! Greilich left Berlin and came 10 Ameri-
| ca. She stopped with friends at 1873
South Orange avenue at Newark, N. j.,
| for several months and during that
| time claims to have been robbed Of
5000 in money and couple of trunks
Whether it was the loss of her money
| or a desire to change and come west
that resulted in her coming to st. Paul
is not known; however, she arrived
here several days ago and secured
room at the Botzen residence. Her ex-
perience in Newark, which resulted in
her losing the 5000, made her very
suspicious, and since arriving In ST.
Paul she had not informed any one
that she had a considerable amount of
money with her. Some few nights ago
Mr.. Botzen had occasion to move
lounge from one room to the other, and
in doing so made considerable noise.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Botzen were sur
prised to see Mrs. Greilich make a
sudden appearance from her room and
rush to her trunk, which had been
standing in the hall of the house. See
| ing that the noise came from the
shifting of the furniture and not from
| the moving of her trunk, Mrs. Greilich
seemed much relieved and then told the
| Botzen's about her experience and the
robbery at Newark, where she claimed
| to have lost not only her money but
also her trunks by having the same
removed from the house where she
| was stopping.
On Friday Mrs. Greilich informed
| Mrs Botzen that she had $500 in cash
| in her trunk and Mrs. Botzen sug-
| gested that the money be placed IN
| some bank and not kept about the
| house. Yesterday morning about ll:30
| o'clock Mrs. Greilich left the house to
make a deposit of the cash in GER
| tain bank that had been recommended
| bv Mrs. Botzen as a safe place for de-
| hosting the money. The cash Mrs.
! Greilich had in a purse which she
carried in her hand, and the money
| made the pocketbook so full that 1t
| might have attracted attention. Mrs.
| Greilich's story is that she had not
| gone but a few blocks from the house
| when she was bumped into by fell
| low who she thought was partly in
| toxfcated She did not pay much at
| tention to the man at the time, but
| was somewhat surprised after going
| a few blocks farther to be again JOS
tied by the same individual. All this
time she was on her way to the bank
the exact location Of which she was
| in doubt. Mrs Greilich does not talk
| English and for this reason did not
| inquire of any of the pedestrians as
| to the location of the bank. After the
| supposed drunken fellow had stag
gered against her the second time she
| took a tighter grip on her purse and
] hurried on, turning the first street
| corner she came to with the idea of
escaping from the fellow. BY this time
! she must have been, according to her
| statements, on Minnesota street be-
tween Sixth and Seventh streets. AS
| she was hurrying along, she says, the
! fellow who had seemingly recovered
| from his intoxication, walked rapidly
behind her and gave her push which
| knocked her down on the sidewalk.
| At the same time he grabbed her purse
| from her hand and before she could
regain her feet or voice the thief had
| disappeared. She claims to have in
formed two men who were standing
/ across the street about the robbery
| but as she told the tale In German and
they did not understand that language
no attention was paid to her. She
walked around on Seventh street and
after a few moments stopped a man
who could speak German. To him she
told her story, and he in turn took
her to the patrolman on the beat, who
at once walked her to the central sta
ticn Here she told her story to Chief
| of Detectives Schweitzer, and al
though the story did not sound proba-
bic, an investigation was ordered and
Detective Gruber put to work on the
case. Mrs. Greilich described the fell
low who she claims took her money as
being of medium height, poorly dressed
and having the appearance of tramp.
Mrs. Greilich, seen yesterday after
| noon by a reporter for the GIob e..
told about the same story as is out
| lined above. She did not seem par
ticularly depressed over the loss of
the money, but showed she mad been
long enough in this country to have
an idea Of how things were run. This
was apparent from the statement she
made that she would gladly give up
half of the amount she lost If the
other half was returned to her. Mrs.
Greilich is about thirty years old of
slight build and had the fingers Of
each hand covered with rings Of vari-
GUS kinds. She said she came West
for the benefit of her health and had
visited st. Paul owing to the recon-
mendation Of her friends in the East.
who spoke very highly Of the city and
the healthful climate. She did not saw
that she had no more money. but
thought If the sum she had lost was
not recovered she would have to go
to work doing dressmaking or some
thing Of that kind to replenish her
purse. Up to a late hour last even
ing there had been no arrests made
in the case.