The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-25
ELLISON GUILTY
OF OTHER GRIMES
DARING RoBBER CoNFEssEs IN
THE sWEATBOX.
Man Who Robbed Sather Meat Market
and Shot Man Saturday Night Clears
Three Mysteries Of Recent Date
Comes from Good Family and Be-
came Robber After Injury.

Martin Ellison, captured SATURDAY.
night, after he had robbed the meat
market of Sather Brothers., and wound
ed Charles Sather, one of the proprle-
tors, proves, by his own confession, to
be a much-sought perpetrator OF sew
eral crimes. In the sweatboy he mas
admitted three other ,robberies and 1t
cerned in more. Tt has been estab-
lished that he comes from ,resPec,,
table family and only after he had
been promised that his identity would
be held in sacred confidence, would ne
talk Of his criminal record.
Ellison declares that an injury which
rendered him temporarily unable to
work was responsible TOR MS oevia-
ton from the straight path. He says
that the robbery of Andrew Peterson s
meat market, 26O3 Twenty-ffth street,
early in September, was his first crime.
In that case G.. G.. Hoist. a clerk, was
compelled to hand over $50 to the
masked robber. The police decided at
the time that the bandit was an ANA
teur, because of the fact that he over,
looked 800 within easy reach and dld
not demand the personal property OF
Hoist. 49,,
Ellison admits that he was one OF the
two men who robbed the confectionery
store of P. Schmitz, S15 Twenty-third
avenue S, Nov. Is, but steadfastlY re-
fuses to divulge the name OF his COM
panion in that crime. Masks and re-
volvers were used then, as in the other
robberies, and Schmitz, who was IN the
act of closing his store for the night,
was forced to surrender the days re-
ceipts, $37.
Success in evading suspicion and
the ease with which he got away with
| the money made Ellison bold, and he
robbed J. Moe. a grocer. at 1929 Ninth
street S, the same week: 1t was the
night of Nov. 81 and Ellison employed
the same tactics, used in the holdup OF
the German, but his adventure nettec
him only $6.45.
With the daring robbery and at
tempted murder Of Saturday night, Ell
lison declares he has confessed his Gu
tire series of robberies, but inasmuch
as he is unable to account for the in
term between the Moe and Sathe9'
crimes the police believe that he coulc
shed light on other small holdups, tha1
show the same daring methods thai
marked those he admits.
Tho he stoutly declares that his ad
vent into a life Of crime was not medl
tated long and that he fully intended
to quit the work, Ellison launched int
it with great preparation. He was on.
of the most desperate highwaymen VIII
ever operated IN the city, as VA
shown by the fight ne put up saturd dsa
put TT Forth he every effort to slay Thurbi1
) Sather in the fierce hand-to-hand en-
counter that followed,
In addition to two large .r,evolyzers
he carried a heavy. :" billy -, and
chisel. ( The "billy' and chisel h
threw away when Sather bounded upo1
him, but he retained his guns and mad
a desperate effort to shoot his captol
! firing twice in the struggle. =, :,
Ellison, it is understood, will max
q VIGOROUS fight when his case reache
courh, it being stated that his tamil
will provide means for a legal fight.
Had it not been for the shooting o
Saturday night, Ellison might hav
evaded the police longer. for he live
with his family and was never SUI
pected. He had worked in an iron four
, dry and received his injury, crushe
l foot, there.