The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-08
WHILE PASSING THROUGH ST.
A+e PAUL
WITH HER SEVEN CHILDREN.
SHE WAS HELD A CAPTIVE AT
THE UNION DE-
POT.
SEARCHING FOR HER HUSBAND
They Are Charged With Disposine
or MortEnged PrOperty-Her
Story of the Trouble.

seven frightened cnlIdren crowded
about a weeping mother at the union
depot yesterday. The woman had been
arrested on the charge of disposing Of
mortgaged property. She is Mrs. Carl
thinner. formerly fiving at Austin
Mimi, who. with her children, was
taken from a Northern Pacifiec train
as she was about to start to join her
husband in q new home at Verndale.
MINI. Deputy Sheriff Johnson also at
tached car load of household goods
at the Minnesota transfer, and, leaving
Mrs. thinner under the surveillance of
Officer Andy Call, instituted a search
for her husband, who is also wanted
by the Mower county authorities to
answer the charge Of disposing of mort
gagged property.
Ihe proceedings are brought in the
interest OF the Minneapolis Threshing
Machine company, and involve the pur-
chase and mortgage Of a threshing
engine, which 1t is claimed thinner
bought this fall. Deputy Sheriff john
son had little to say concerning the
detention Of the woman and her chill
dren beyond the fact that he had a
warrant for the arrest Of herself and
husband in connection with a matter
involving $4,000, but Mrs. thinner was
seen at the depot by a Globe re-
porter and told the following story Of
the affair:
Early this fall my husband pur-
chased g. threshing machine from the
minneapolis company. and gave
mortgage on forty acres Of land, and
also on the machine, for security. When
the mortgage was brought to him to
pc signed he could not read the writ
Ing, and the agent of the company
read 1t for him, when he signed it.
NOW 1t Is claimed that the paper also
contained mortgage on the earnings
OF the machine, and they have arrested
me and are trying to catch my hus-
pand because he collected some of the
money he had earned threshing for
the farmers in the vicinity Of Austin.
MY husband never knew that he had
signed mortgage on the earnings
OF the mill, and that clause was not
read to him by the agent when the
papers were presented for his sig
nature"
4 Just why Mrs. thinner should no ar
rested, If her statements are correct
Is something Of a mystery, as she de-
ciares the threshing company still has
the mortgage on the farm and retains
possession of the machine. She ad-
mtts that her husband collected some
OF the money due him for work done
with the mill. but says it was only a
small amount. One object in attach
Ing the car of goods at the transfer. it
Is said was the hope of finding Zirn-
mer in hiding in the car, but a search
failed to discover him. Mrs. 7knrner
informed Sheriff Johnson that hS, hus-
band was at Vernda1e, whittier she
was on her way to join him, and the
f1an% Wiz yA
to effect his arrest.
1t was estimated by Sheriff Johnson
that the Zimmers were also wanted for
burning some property alleged to have
been mortgaged. Mrs. thinner ex-
plains the probable foundation for this
charge by stating that her home
burned down about three weeks ago
and that there was a mortgage on the
place. 1t was insured for $500. which
amount was collected and placed In
the local bank. Shortly before she
left Austin, she says, the agent for
the machine company went to her with
story to the effect that her husband
had authorized him to collect this in
surance money from the bank as part
payment for the machine and wanted
her signature, as the money was In
her name. This she refused to grant
though she says in the meantime her
husband had withdrawn the money.
and that when the agent approached
her she had no bank account. 1t was
this money and that collected from the
earnings of the threshing machine with
which thinner purchased a farm at
Verndale
Inquiry last evening ELECTED the in
formation that Mrs. thinner and her
children had left the union depot, but
as Deputy Sheriff Johnson could not be
found, it was impossible to ascertain
what had become of her. The police
authorities know nothing of the deten-
ton Of the woman, and as she was not
left in their custody over night, nor
lodged at the county jail, it Is likely
that she was either taken back to Aus
tin last night or quartered in some
lodging house.