The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-10-17
ST. GLARS TRUNK
Contained Fine Assortment OF
Games.
Sheriff Dreger Takes His Prisoner
Back to Minneapolis with
Him.

Sherln DreSer Oh MiuuoaPoiis' "o
oompanieG Y Charles G. Laybourn,
who is assisv. g the attorney of Hen
>nepin county, arrived in the city
Friday to get Harold B. st. Clair and
take him back to that city. Accord
ing to their statements, st. Clair is
one of the smoothest crooks in tn
country. They left on the 5:l5 a. m
train with their prisoner.
st. Clair's trunk at the Chiffon
House was searched and revealed "a
rich parcel of contents. consisting
mainly of the devices and parapher-
MALTA for carrying on various KINDS OF
gambling games, even down to the
shell game. ST. Clair had been very
anxious about his trunk, and was en-
deavoring all yesterday afternoon TO
get someone to remove it for him.
He sent for various acquaintance I'M
der pretext of bringing him cigar or
something of the kind, until Chief
Bowen gave orders to allow no one to
see him.
Sheriff Dreger and Chief Bowen
spent the greater part of the night
searching for woman who came TO
the city at the same time that st.
Clair did and who has since been here
until yesterday morning, when st.
Clair accompanied her to st. Peter.
He was returning from st. Peter and
not from Minneapolis, as he gave out
Yesterday, when he was arrested. he
walked from st. Peter to Kasota, and
caught the train there. The officers
were unable to find any clue of the
woman in st. Peter. She gave her
oceupation as hair dresser when in
this city. She owed board bill of
s15 at the Clifton House, but st. Clal'
borrowed the amount from Il al
bank president and gave it to her to
nav the bill. so it is said. The woman
was wanted by the officials as wit
ness.
The Minneapolis officials said that
the grand jury that is now in session
there would return seven or eight in
dictments against st. Clair, princi-
pally charging him with defrauding
people in deals of varicns kinds.
They also darkly limited that two
Minneapolis women claim him as their
k7sband
It. Clair's revolver. which he car
lied for a time during his brief resi-
dence in Mankato, was located by the
officials last night. 1t had been left
with certain party to secure small
loan. st. Clair contracted several
small loans while in the city, 1t Is
said. He must have been near the
shoals, for he had only ten
cents on his person when arrested. His
unpaid bill at the Clifton House
amounts to $15 or $50.
st. Clair stated yesterday that he
had several deals on hand by which
he expected to make some money If he
had not been arrested. Several good
ClGlZ0OS dT0 SAL W udNO bOOh I'll Lis
string. If his deals with them had
turned out like some of those in Min
neapolis, as related by the officials
last evening, they would have been
wiser but sadder men after the thing
was over. 1t is claimed that st. Clair
has sold saw mills and various enter
prises which have turned out to be not
in existence. He advertised himself on
his arrival in Mankato asa broker OF
business enterprises, arranging deals
between people who want to buy and
sell business enterprises.
For a time st. Clair practiced medi-
cine, though not licensed physician.
He manufactured some quack nostrum
that he claimed would cure kidney
trouble. The principal ingredient of
this is claimed by the Minneapolis
officials to have been salt water. Some
printed matter advertising this medi-
cine and bearing his likeness posing
Sas a physician were found in his
trunk
Among other things found in the
trunk were false faces. boards, wigs
and various makeups by which per-
son could pass himself off as belonging
to any class of society from a back
country farmer to city society swell.