Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-01
ROBBED 0|TIARG[ SUN
A !. Mann, Of This City, Goss to a
Bad Town and is Now Sorry
For It.
Fell in With an Acquaintance, Got
intoxicated and Woke Up
Minus His Money.
Intended to Invest His Savings In 4
Lunch Business Claude Pell
Figures in the Affair.

Figures in the Affair.
A. +. Mann, a long time resident OF
the south side of the city, concluded to
try new field, engage in business and
grow rich. His selection was bad
one, and now, according to the story
he tells to the police, he is minus the
savings of several years, amounting to
| $366.S5. Had Mann not fallen in with
another resident OF this city, Claude
Pell by name, and former resident of
South Third avenue. he might have
been feeding the hungry multitudes Of
Cedar Rapids and adding to his bank
account. The Cedar Rapids Republican
of this morning tells of the affair as
follows:
A. f. Mann, a gentleman about As
years OF age, and who has lived in Mar
shalltown for the past twenty-three
years and who thought that city the
size of Cedar Rapids was more to his
liking, fell by the wayside soon after
his arrival here and now wishes with
all his heart that he had been contented
with the ways of the metropolis OF
Marshall county. He IL poorer by
$356.S5 of the coin Of the realm and the
possessor of more wisdom than he
Thought was possible to acquire in q
| short time. He had come here. float
ing on air castles and mapping out his
plans for his declining days on the
/ ho oh rot bo,, ,a.tfl Ne.
| here, and will return to his old home,
ready to make a new start in life with
mot even so much as silver dollar or
has no silver lining. Tis sad, but true,
4 bowl will lead to.
/ Mann came here last Friday with
1 seventeen twenty dollar bills, ten
1 dollar bill and a five dollar bill, all
! pinned together and snugly packed
away in his inside vest pocket. He
| thought 1t was in safe place next to
4 his heart. The s1.S5 in change he jim
4 gled in his pants pocket. He was in
quest OF lunch counter that he could
/ buy at reasonable terms. where he
/ might feed the hungry multitudes and
4 increase the amount OF his exchequer.
When he saw the rush for the eating
| places on circus day he was even more
/ anxious than ever before to invest his
h hard earned money in the beautiful
city by the Cedar, and was already
1 counting his profits up in the hun
ldreds. But his fondest dreams We're
!, blasted In most cruel Kramer.
Monday morning about $50 o'clock
/ he met an old acquaintance. Claude
4 Pell, a youth Of % years, whom he had
known since childhood. Mann was
feeling happy over his bright prospects
I and invited Pell to drink with him.
Z They drank several times. whisky
/ straight, brandy cocktails, gin phizes,
/ beer and everything on the bill of fare.
After both men had become somewhat
mellow under the influence Of the ex-
hilarating drinks. Pell impaired the in
4 formation to him that he was going to
Ifget married to a lovely little girl of IS
Issummers and asked him to accompa
him TO Marion to secure the marriage
4 license. Mann was delighted and the
lslicense was secured.
1 Returning to the city about IL
4 o'clock Monday morning they went to
the opera house livery stable, where
| they hired fine rig and started out to
take in the city before dinner Before
going, however, they had three BRAN
dies and a couple of beers, and placed
several bottles in the buggy, SO that
they might not get dry. Mann remem-
bers everything very distinctly unl.i
about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when
they came very nearly upsetting at 7O5
South Second street. From then on
4 until O'Clock at night his mind Is a
blank
TT was just about 8 O'Clock that
Mann rolled over and sat up and found
himself in strange place, with no
/ body near him. His first thought was
1 of his money, and his hand went
/ tremblingly to his inside vest pocket
/ only to find 1t empty. He scrambled to
/ his feet and found that he was down in
1 Riverside park, close to the Milwaukee
| bridge. He hunted up his son, Ted
| Mann, and told him to report the mat
ter TO the police, and then went to bed.
| for he was sick. sick at heart and sick
as aeresult OF the conglomerated mass
of liquors he had drank. But the son
neglected to report to the police
| The police, however. learned Of the
robbery thru another source and last
evening hunted up Mann. who told the
above story. He said that Pell and the.
young lady he was to wed had left the
city, he knew not where, and he could
not ascertain from him what he had
done after o'clock. He has no idea,
whatever as to how or who robbed him,
but is inclined to believe that he in
duced PeH to let him out of the buggy
and that he wandered down to river.
Eyt,1 la, Ia. Il.
and that while he slept he was touched
It is probable that when PelI returns to
the city he will be able to throw some
Light on the matter. altho Mann has
only the slightest hopes of ever being
able to recover his money.
DOESN'T THINK MUCH OF IT.
Court Reporter George II. smith Not
Jubilant over Alaskan Gold Pros
poets.