The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-07
ANDA WAS BADLY BEATEN
CASE OF BOLD HIGHWAY ROB-
berry ON KTTTSON
STREET
HERMAN SMITH ARRESTED
Victim LuredaInto Dark Part of the
Street and sIugged - Other
Charges Against Smith
A QHifk Capture.


Andrew Anda, q stranger in the city.
Claiming to have. come from North Da-
kota but three days ago. had no con-
cepuon or what Was gong to happen to
MIN when hey went out to see tie
sights wtth5faa supposed friend about
midnight Saturday night.
lie had some, fun. but Just at present
he Is mourning tina loss Of about SIS, and
Herman Smith, well, known in police
circles and an ex-conyice, Is under ar-
rest at the Margaret street police sta
ton charged with highway robbery.
According to the story told by Anda to
the police. he. Is a. stationary engineer,
and came to st. Paul about three days
ago from North Dakota He is about
forty years old ana stopped at $40 Jack
SON street. Shortly before II o clock
Saturday night. he claims he went into
the saloon of w. J. Hoover at Eighth
and jackson streets to buy a driak-
While there he says Smith cultivated hil
acquaintance and after little social
talk 1t was decided that Smith should
show him some of the sights"
This was satisfactory and they visited
several saloons and some resorts, finally
winding up near Kttson and East Sew
enth streets, When they arrived at this
corner, Anda says, Smith steered him
up kfttson street. which WIS very dark.
Inc next thing Anda knew he was struck
powerful blow on the head with some
hard object, he claims, in the hands of
smith A struggle between he two men
ensued in which Anda WAS worsted. and
smith went through his pockets. Ssour-
ing what money he found In his victims
pockets, Smith ran up the street, and
Anda picked himself up, covered with
blood, and not knowing where he WAS.
This was shortly before 3 o'clock. He
kept on staggering through the street
Hnni lxy sad q cts. -of
bridge where he encountered Officer Hor.
rlgan, Of the Margaret police station de-
tail, to whom he told his story. The Of
1lcer sent HIM to- the station and after
listening to the victims story, Sergeants
Flanagan and Aampld started out to find
the highwayman. On investigation, ana
from the description given by Anda they
shortly came to the conclusion that
Herman Smith WAS the man who had
done the deed and after hunting for
some time they found him in lodging
house at 80 Jackson street He was
taken to the Margaret station, where he
was positive;ysSdetatified by Apda. Smith
denies all lSuofledgeFo of the affair, but IS
unable to gives unsatisfactory statement
of his whereabouts from IL o. clock until
he was arrestedxs i4Vhen. Anda came to
town he had, 6Sl251 but luckily for h m,
he deposited $500 Of It in the Union bank
and gotta cert4ieSkf check in return. This
he pinned in his inside vest pocket which
accounts for the rpbber missing 1t. The
check lis in the hands of the police, at
the present time. - +s -.
According to the police. this Is not the
only charge. that. hangs over Smiths
head. They say that he fo1 merry worked
as porter for about three weeks In the
saloon at Eighth and Jackson streets
and that while. there he stole an
astrachan oVercoat belonging, to the BAR
tender, Ole Munsen. The coat was
valued at about $50 and M,lnsen claims
Smith borrowed it and failed to return
IT., giving as sa95 excuse that he had
loaned 1t to a. fEjsnd named Casey Mr..
Munsen says he VIII sWe2r out a warrant
| charging Smith WIFI The theft this morn
hlg,szgss.s= t7fsssss 49,
S Smith vas discharged @hg Mr.. Hoover
{ shout fasir 81 ago .allfs has since been
angling g rouIl place 8 Detectives
MINK tsos7n and Moran Investigated the
tease yasEeTda ysssSands last night it was
discovered thatsa suit ofSeFothes belong
ing TO. Hoover wa 3 missing from his
trunk. which wa u rearsroom of the
saIoon,s to witch TIN ere WIS only one key.
This is also Ss4arn med on Smith as Hoover
claims that one da IS when he was going
to do some work in this room he asked
Smith to get the key from the bartender.
When Smith replied that he had a key
that would fit the lock. which he pro-
duced issss$
Smith was Sent to fflestate prison
several years ago to serve ten years for
highway robbery. He served about three
years when. he broke MS parole and last
summer he was reeaptured, and. an effort
made to send, :1if nSzback to serve the re-
naming sseveu SCARS but the district
court decided@tn saaNer of him. Since
then he has been ARRESTED several times
by the local po1ice5fer different offenses
He has always Managed to get out Of
his scrapes, but the police feel confident
that they nave ahirn right this time.
Credit is due to sesgeants Flanagan AMI
Aamold for apprgAehding him so soon
after the robbery. AIIe will be arraigne5
in the police couregtliis morning.