The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-05-22
A BIG HAUL.
A BURGLAR GOES THROUGH POND
& JORGENSON'S STORE.
Goods to the Value of $50 are
StOIen-The Thief Leaves His Old
Clothing and DOns New and FASH
ionable lApparei-An Experienced
Hand Shown i'm the WOrk-A
Stranger Suspected.

A lone burglar got away with a
good deal of property last night, and
has thus far eluded the police. He
entered Pond 81 Jorgenson's store by
the old and time honored highway Of
the back window. With chisel
which he left, he removed the wood
and putty from around one corner of
pane of glass, broke the corner off,
reached in his hand and removed
brace (which held the sash down.
Then he raised the lower sash and
slid in. The store was well lighted,
and the goods and boxes in front shut
off the view from the street, so that
he could take his time and do a
thorough job, and he did it.
The burglar took off all of his old
clothing down to the skin, and left
them in heap on the floor of the
tailoring department, and arrayed
himself in new clothing, putting on
underclothing, black sateen shirt, a
gray suit, gray overcoat,a celluloid
collar and necktie. He did not
neglect his extremeties for he put on
a soft black hat, and took Geo. Ponds
new tan shoes. Then he got large
satchel, and filled it to overlooking
with clothing and gents furnishing
goods. A vest and pants of gray
color, which had just been COM
pleted for Attorney Young, were
slowed away. Two pairs of gray
pants were selected, and two or three
more soft hats, four or five pairs of
socks, and black clay wOrsted ready
made coat. There being still little
room he picked up an extra pair of
pants, or coat, here and there, and
packed them in. Then he took
dozen silk handkerchiefs and put
them in his overcoat pockets, and also
few extra neckties. Needing lit
tie money to get out of the city with,
he went to the drawer of the desk,
took key from it and opened the
only fifty cents. In all, it is estimat-
ed that goods to the value of $3.50
were taken.
The thief was no novice, for he
carefully removed all of the tags
from the articles taken. The clothing
which he took was mostly of 35 size,
which would fit small man, and the
clothing and shoes which he left were
of about the same size. The clothing
left was Of coarse, cheap stuff, the
shirt very dirty, and the shoes much
worn Congress CATERS. Two old
knives were left in one Of the pockets
of the pantaloons, and six or eight
penny pencils and quantityOf parlOr
matches were left in the pile of cloth
ing.
The thief left through the same
window that he came in by, leaving
itcloSed, and the burglary was not
discovered until this morning. The
robber is supposed to be young man
about twenty years old, who has been
seen about the city this week. On
Monday he purchased dozen one
cent pencils at Stewart & Holmes,
and later entered Kruse Bros store
and offered them for sale, walking to
the rear of the store, for the purpose
of looking over the stock and the rear
windows, it is now believed. He told
tale of woe, and shed tears, and pre-
tended that he wanted to get money
enough to GO to LeMars. Iowa. One
of the clerks at Pond & Jorgenson's
store remembers seeing him looking
into that store last evening, through
the front door.
The police and sheriff were notified,
and telephoned and telegraphed to all
points along the railroads Mr.. Pond
and Sheriff Bowen drove over to
Kasota this forenoon.