The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-07-01
LOUIS DAUM GETS
SIXTY DAYS IN JAIL
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Louis Daum was this forenoon sen
fenced by Judge Pau 90 serve sixt,
days in the county JAZZ for the thief
OF rings, watch and SUI, case from
Ellie Williams, his former sweetheart
When asked whether he had anything
to say, lie said that he did not.
Judge Pau reminded Damn that he
Lad been indicted for grand larceny in
the second degree, but had been allowed
to plead guilty to the charge of petit
larceny. You were near the line OF
a more severe sentence than the court
can give now, said The court. II hope
that this will prove Il lesson to you
that you will profit by"
Ernest Mention was next asked to
stand up. He said that he had nothing
to say why sentence should not be
passed upon Inn, but his attorney, c.
j. Laurisch made strong appeal for
lail sentence rather than one to
prison. Mr.. Laurisch lead letters re-
ceived by Mention from the girl that
he was charged with abusing, Miss
Alma Rudbeck OF Nicollet county.
The first letter was dated Feb. Fl last
and i'll it Miss Rudbeck informed Mr.
Mention that box social was soon to
lie held near her home and she urged
him to attend, adding You can ex-
pect kiss if you are there. | want
You for mine as you are good kid"
One dated Feb. % informed Mention
that the date of the social was March
and again urged him to be present
She signed it as from your Dutch
girl"
The next one was dated March 81,
and was addressed to Mention at Fargo,
y. ID. In it the writer said that she
would make date when she wanted
to leave home. She said: Il am willing
to skip with you and go out west =
L cried when | heard that you
had gone and | could not be with you
so come back and see me. = s
l will surely 60 out west with you as
soon as you get back.
Under date of April q, which was
Just before the elopement. Miss Rud-
beck wrote to Mention That size was
ready to leave and 60 with him any
time, only hey would have to wait
until her parents went away, so she
could get chance to get away She
said that her parents changed their
minds as to the date of their going to
st. Paul every two minutes. She told |
Mention that she would telephone TO
him when he was to come. II am not |
trying to fool you," she wrote. Il am
willing to go west with you and help
You. will have my stuff ready that l
care to bring. l will wrap it up in
shawl
MIR. Laurisch said that pursuant to
this letter, the girl telephoned to Men
ton when her parents lad gone. and
be had met her at the station and they
had gone to Mapleton and stayed there
hat night, at the hotel. Four days
after this, after the girl lad lcen taken
to st. Peter by her father, she wrote
20 Mention, saying that She was not
gong home. but would pick guardian
and stay at st. Peter. She said that
she would keep her promise, and asked
hin to be true to her and 10 keep his
promise. She would have to wait twelve
months, and then they could be happy.
Mr. Lausich said that the defendant !;
md the girl had planned to 90 to
Iowa to be married and then to 20 out
vest and take homestead They had
stopped over night at Mapleton OH the
way and had then gone to Austin,
where they were stopped the following
lay. Mention did not mislcad the girl.
He is twentysix years old, and his
PARENTS were divorced five OF six years
,go, and he lives with his mother and
Ter younger children. The environments
ed him to do what he did, as he did
not think it wrong. The defendant did
lot wish TO have the girl quizzed in
curt, so had pleaded guilty, and he
lad more regard for the girl than those
Who had instituted the proceedings. The
rhine was merely technical one. A
all sentence would be as much of
would not be as much of disgrace.
They were going west to build a home.
Lhe defendant had been in Jail forty
i've days, and that was ample punish
nent for what he had done.
County Attorney Plymat said that
he parties had become acquainted last
winter when the defendant worked for
Mr.. Rudbeck a short time. They had
rad some correspondence since. Miss
tudbeck had destroyed Mentions letters
o her, but they were love letters of
he ordinary kind and urged her to
% away with him. The defendant was
t Miss Rudbeck's home week or ten
lays before the elopment and it was
greed then to 60 when her parents
hould be away. When the parents
lent, Miss Rudbeck notified Mention
nd he drove to the house and took
Alma, although her younger brother
old him not to take her. The girl
avs that she expected that she was
ding to GAINESVILLE, Wis, and did not {
now that they were going elsewhere. {
hey got off at Mapleton, Mention lav f
~ paid cash fares to there, and they |
-ent to a hotel and Mention registered t
nder an assumed name. The girl did g
OF know that they were going to oc- /
upy the same room, and she refused
E. Ill !