Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-04-05
ARE TED FOR ROBBERY
Thought to Have Robbed
a Saloon at
Philbrook

Sheriff Long captured one Of a quar-
tet OF burglars. Saturday morning.
who were wanted for the robbery Of q
sum of money and q lot of LIQUOR from
q saloon at Philbrook.
The men had gone to the American
house from the early morning train,
at about four o, clock and did net 90
to bed, and some time afterwards
went out.
When Martin Since came down in
the morning fer breakfast he noticed
his overcoat had disappeared, and on
being told that four men had but q
short time before left the place, he
went on q hunt for the quartet, and
found them in Gagnon's restaurant,
and also found his oveFcoat on one
of them. He secured his coat, and
left fer the West side Immediately
without reporting tho occurrence 20
at tho American houee, ut which place
he had q satohel full Of bottles of
whiskey which he had brought with
him. The others could not be found.
The man gave his name as William
sturlin9 of Mississippi, and on being
searched IN the county jail, he was
found to have on bis person about
IS. 90. in nickles.
Later on it developed that the pri.
soner was wanted at Lincoln, also.
and a man came down from there
Saturday and identified Surfing rs
oEe who bad gone off with some
money and q coat taken from him.
He stated that he was taking q car
OF goods and ten horses from Fari-
bault to some place in North Dakota
and that when hs arrived at Darling,
he took on the man, Surfing. When
near Liz coin one of the horses fell
down. and they had the car side
tracked, so they could take out the
other horses in order to be able to
raise the fallen one. While doing this
one of the horsfs bolted, broke the hal
ter and ran away. Surfing offered
to help hunt mp the runaway and
said he thought he would need some
money to meet emergencies. Ac-
cordiDgly 50 as reward to be Civ.
en- to the one who found the horse,
and 81. 90 for his expenses were given
him and Stu1ling was ready to go ON
he hunt, but it was not until he had
taken an overcoat and pair of shoes
of the owner of the horse that he real
~ went.
His wsnderings took him to Phil.
brook Friday night and on arriving al
the depot he borrowed lantern, tell.
ing them he had found out where the
horse was. He was accompanied by
another man as he left the depot and
two others supposed to be of the
quartet remained at the depot.
The robbing Of the saloon is sup.
posed to have bean done by Sturline
and the one who accompanied him
with the lantern, and that they met
the ether two after the robbery ano
came down to Little Falls with them
The prisoner claimed that he had
been tricked by the other three men,
whom he ea1d he did not know, into
buy ing the clothes of them ana trieC
, to explain the manner in which he
came into possession of the nickels, by
sa' ing that he gave them q fve-dol.
lar bill in exchange for nickles of the
same valuation when the money was
counted however. it was shown that
he had nickle more than the So. The
owner was given back So and the over
cost and other articles stolen from him
and the prisoner was placed in the
! county Jail to await the pleasure Of
the Todd county authorities.
Sheriff Hamilton of Long Prairie
was in the CITY and took Surfing tc
Long Prairie Tuesday. His case will
be tried April %.