The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-12-10
HAD A SUPPLY.
An Amb0y Party Lays in a Large
One of His NeighbOrs.
And as Result Gets Into the Tolls of
the Law.

A letter from Amboy states that
Rinholt Nibbe was arrested there
Thursday charged with taking
numerous articles ranging from a
curry comb to screen doors, and adds:
''His photograph gallery was searched
and mittens, caps, saws, grindstOnes,
and in fact all kinds of merchandise
was found there and claimed by diff
ferent firms in town. Dozens Of
articles that have been lost, were re-.
turned in the night to the places they
were taken from. There was more
stuff found at his place than Miller
ever had at his school house retreat.
They are still finding goods that were
lost"
In addition to the above, we clip
the following from the Amboy
Herald, which says that there was
among the articles almost everyt thing
but red hot stove: Fred Benin
recognized few pounds of solder and
other articles which he firmly be-
lieves came from the Implement Co.'S
store. Bicycle tools, carriage and
blacksmith tools, numerous boxes of
files were found land it looks as if Mr..
Nibbe had some intention of opening
up laundry in connection with his
photograph business as three improv-
ed sad irons were found in his desk.
A Western washer was brought in
and Mr.. Nibbe informed Mrs. John
son, whose family occupy the upper
rooms of his building, that she could
use it. Goods in original pack
ages were recognized by ; A. G.
Baker as coming from his hard
ware store, carpenters ADJ also re-
cognized Asa as being its former
owner. The fiat irons and last named
article. Mr. Nibbe claims to have
bought from U. NJ Parker and he
also insists that a number of the afore-
M ntioned articles came into his
possession through Jack Morse. The
whereabouts of both of these gentle
men is unknown Numberless hose
nozzles and couplings, in fact good
sized box full were found, but no
owner has yet claimed them. Willis
Perrin profited by the disclosure, and
a mating knife, vice, pair of shears,
and bicycle spoke grip will resume
their position at Willis right hand in
the course of time. A number of
other people recognized lesser articles
which have been missed from time to
time. A number of people around
town recovered small tools, such as
saws, planes, harness fixtures, etc, w.
F. Ward lost buggy whip and box
of axle grease, last summer, and upon
request Mr.. Nibbe returned them to
the owner. A number of petty lar
ceny suits were commenced against
Nibbe yesterday afternoon. For the
theft of the stuff from Mr.. Perrin,
Nibbe pleaded guilty and was fined
1926 and costs byJ Cooper. Fred
Apitz had him arrested for the theft
of a pair Of shoes. Nibbe acknow-
lodged his'guilt and was fined 1926 and
costs. Mr.. Nibbe also plead guilty to
taking number of articles from the
Rue hardware store, and again he
pulled his bill book and planked down
the rpoular S25 and costs AmOnnt
of fines and costs in these three cases
foot up exactly 800. To the charge of
stealing articles from A. G. Bakers
hardware he plead guilty to a part
and Dot guilty as to others. He final
ly decided to plead not guilty and
stand trial which is set for next
Thursday. There is general surprise
expressed by almost every citizen at
this turn of affairs as Mr.. Nibbe has
always borne a good reputation in
this placp