The Saint Paul globe., 1902-02-28
HAD NERVE TO BURN
ANDREW ANDERSON BREAKS INTO
SALTWATER PRISON AND
STEALS SHOES
JUST FINISHED A TERM THERE
Secures Three Cases of Valuable
shoes by Scaling WaIIs-HOpes
to Go Back for
Life.
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SALTWATER, Feb. ga man who
can deliberately plan to burgIarize a
prison, while serving time in le institll-
tlon, and then carry out his plans after
his release, must either be a foo. or an
ardent knave. This was done by Andrew
Anderson, who was released from prison
Feb 5, after serving five years for grand
larceny, committed in Hennepin county
and who now occupies a cell in the
county jail, awaiting sentence for his
confessed crime. Anderson is a man
about forty years of age, but according
to the prison records most of his life
during the past twenty years has been
spent in prison. He has served two
terms in the Saltwater prison, but has
served two, if not three, terms in other
prisons, and according to his own state
ment is anxious to go back to the Still
water prison for life for burglarizing- W.
b. q w. @. Jordan's warehouses in the
prison yard Saturday night
After Anderson's release from prison
he was sent to the Minneapolis work
house to serve a term for drunkenness
and according OF his own story, told to
Warden Wolfer and Deputy Warden J
S. Glennon, he returned TO Saltwater
last Saturday, to carry out the plan he
had formed Of robbing the shoe ware
house. He reached the prison wall on
the west side, followed the north wall
of the prison to the northeast corner,
where there jig a small guard house
There he found a rope which is used
by the guard for hauling up wood ana
other things. He waited until the dead
of night and then descended the rope to
the prison yard. The night watchman
passed by him and soen afterward
Anderson skipped hurriedly into the
warehouse, where he took three cases Of
shoes, two of them being flied with the
highest priced shoes made in the prison
factory and the other filled with com
mon grain shoes. He carried the cases
to the prison wall fastened two Of them
to the end Of the rope and cliIn Jed
to the top, pulling the rope and cases
UP after him. He again descended and
secured the remaining case. ne then
lowered himself over the outer side Of
the wall and carried the cases to the
old paint shop, formerly owned by the
Northwestern Manufacturing and Car
company, on the banks of Lake St.
Croix. He hid the cases under the paint
shop and finding large sack he placed
sixteen pairs of shoes into the sack and
left for St. Paul on the first interurban
car Sunday morning. The shoes were
pawned in st. Paul and the money Sc
cured by Anderson was used in buying
a new telescope grip and getting his coat
and vest out of pawn, these articles
having been pawned for money enough
with which TO come to Saltwater. He re-
turned to this city Sunnay afternoon,
packed the remaining shoes into the
grip and took them to Minneapolis,
where he pawned twenty pairs in
Washington avenue pawnshop, the pre-
prietor of which is now locked up in
Minneapolis on a charge Of having re-
ceived stolen articles
Deputy Warden G1ennen found ne
first lot of shoes in st. Paul pawn
shop and the description the pawn
broker gave OF the man who lad left
them there, answered to the descrip-
ton Of Anderson who had been seen
here by Mr.. Glennon Saturday evening.
He returned to Saltwater and secured
photographs Of Anderson, which were
placed in the hands of the St Paul and
Minneapolis police and Anderson was
found in the Minneapolis jal Tuesday,
having been locked up Monday night Tor
stealing robe. Mr. Glennon took An
derson willingly showed Mr.. Glennon
where the shoes h=a a-oee-s pawned. All
Of the shoes were recovered and IT.
Glennon brought Anderson back to Still
water, on the last interurban car We'd
nesday night.
He was arralgned perore Judge Doe
of the municipal court, yesterday and
acknowledged his guilt. He waived ex-
animation and was bound over to await
the action Of the grand jury. bail being
fixed at $500 He stated in court
that he hoped to go back to prison for
life, inasmuch as he knew of no better
place to stay.
Warden Wolfer, being asked as to how
the theft was discovered. said that the
cases were found by some small boys,
who notified their fathers and the latter
notified Mr.. Wolfer