The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-03-29
GOODS RECOVERED
Three Women Under Arrest for
Sh0pifting.
One of Them Makes Complete Coufes-
sion and duplicates the
Other Two.

Three women of this city are under
arrest on the charge of shop lifting,
and goods belonging to a number of
merchants, footing up several hundred
dollars in value, have been recovered.
Some of these goods have been i6enti
fed, and the merchants who have been
losers are Geo. E. Brett, inc, J. B.
& D. Richards, Fair store, Geo. Pond
and A. N. Stein.
The women under arrest are Mrs.
Ulrika Kohler. who resides at PIT
Main street, her daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Minnie Kohler, who resides at the
northwest corner of Fifth and Warren
streets and Mrs. Elsie Foss, whose
home is on Poplar street. Owing to
the condition of her health Mrs. Foss
was not locked up, her physician and
County Physician Bjelland concurring
in advising against it.
The two Mrs Kohler were arraigned
Monday on warrant sworn out
by Geo. E. Brett, charging them in
conjunction with Mrs. Foss with
grand larceny in the second degree in
stealing piece of silk last Saturday,
valued at $50. Their examination was
set for Wednesday at 10 a. m. and
their bail was fixed at $500 each. Mrs.
Ulrika Kohler announced that she had
5000 in the bank and could furnish
bail. She refused an offer of the court
to allow both to go for 5000, saying
that she did not know whether her
daughter-in-law had stolen or not
The arrests were made at shortly
after noon. Chief Bowen procured a
search warrant and accompanied by
Officer Daniels went to the home of
Mrs Minnie Kohler. On the lounge
they found piece of silk that matched
a sample supplied by Mr.. Brett. Fur
Their search revealed a trunk filled
with bolts of silk and other goods and
three pairs of new trousers. Mrs.
Kohler when confronted with the evil
dence of her guilt, confessed that she
had been engaged in pilfering stores,
and implicated Mrs Ulrika Kohler
and Mrs. Foss.
Chief Bowen telephoned to Officer
Bienapf at the city hall to go to the
residence of Mrs. Ulrika Kohler and
arrest her and take any stolen goods he
might find. He found a trunk full of
goods that he took along as matter of
precaution. Mr.. Bowen and Officer
Daniels went to Mrs Foss' residence
and placed her under arrest.
The proprietors of the stores which
had been visited according to Mrs.
Minnie Kohlers confession were at
once notified to go with the officers
and identify their goods.
Mr.. Brett identified five pieces of
silk, the most valuable containing 40
yards valued at dollar yard. The
five pieces are worth something over
800. Two pieces of silk had been
missed from this store, one some time
ago and the other last Saturday. Mr..
Brett had his suspicious Saturday and
confided them to Mr.. Bowen, giving a
description of the woman, who was
Mrs. Minnie Kohler He did not know
her name or where she resided. Some
of these stolen pieces were found at
each of the three houses
A. NJ. Stein identified two pairs of
trousers, taken from his store while a
crowd was watching the midgets two
weeks ago. 81. G. Kurth's little girl
saw two women take the goods, one
slipping them under her cape, and re-
ported the occurrence to Mr.. Stein,
but they had departed before he could
reach the front of the store These
goods were found at Mrs. Minnie
Kohler's.
Geo. Pond identified one pair of
black trousers as having been stolen
from his store two weeks ago. He
had his suspicious at the time who the
shop lifters were and told the police
The stolen article was found at Mrs.
Minnie Kohler's.
Mr.. Blume, proprietor of the Fair
store, identified some chinelle cur
tains, fancy dishes, hosiery, etc. They
were found at Mrs. Minnie Kohler' S.
Mr.. Blume had been notified several
times by clerk in shoe store across
the street that he had seen two women
take articles displayed in front of his
store.
When seen by Free Press reporter
at the city hall Monday afternoon, Mrs.
Minnie Kohler stated that she is the
wife of Theodore Kohler, who was for.
merly wiper on the c. & N. w. road
but who has been sick all winter They
came to Mankato a year ago from
Granada. She said that the pilfering
first commenced about Christmas time,
starting with the Fair store. Mrs.
Ulrika Kohler would generally engage