The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-09-02
From Saturdays Daily.

$50 Lincoln avenue.
From Saturdays Daily.
Savage, August ga daring at
tempt was made at one o'clock yester
day morning to rob the postoffice at
Savage, Mimi, but the robbers were
driven off by the postmaster, f. c.
Garvey, who seized shotgun from
under his bed, and engaged in hand
to hand conflict with bandit who
had succeeded in entering the build
ing.
There was $500 in cash in the cash
drawer of the postoffice, according to
Mr.. Garvey, besides which the post
master had $84 in a pair Of trousers,
hung over the foot of the bed. AS the
robber jumped out Of the window of
the postofficc, he grabbed a pair of
pants, but, said Mr.. Carney this morn
ing, she took new pair, and | had
the money in my everyday pants, and
ne didn't even get that"
Story Told BY Gavey.
Postmaster Garyey runs a grocery in
Savage and sleeps in the rear of the
store. He gives the following account
of the robbery: =
81 went to bed about ten o'clock last
night" he says, land Immediately fell
asleep About one O'Clock, was awak-
ened by the sound of some paper boxes
falling 1t sounded to me at first like
there were rats among the boxes
which were used for envelopes. Think
ing / had better take look and see
what was going on | rose from bed
and without striking a light advanced
toward the corner from which the
sound came
Suddenly my hand fell on the
shoulder of q man. 1t was cold anC
damp, | thought at the time that M
must have been out all night in TIN
dew. But ! didn't ponder long abou
that. l jumped back and grabbed m.
shotgun, which always keep jus
: under the head of my cot, but the fel
!, low was too quick for me.
: SIT was so dark neither of us coul'
see, but he came after me, and evel
oSioiC L COulu SNt INV gun W
e shoulder he had grabbed the barrel.
t Struggle in the Dark.
9 'Then we began a hand-to-hand fgh
r for the gun. He managed to drag m
L around towards the window, and befor
knew what he was about he ha
: seized pair Of my pants and jumpe
s through the window.
: "The fight had tuckered me out, an
s l couldn't make much of an effort
d follow him. and | couldn't see whic
s way he went so | didn't waste a she
o on him. :,
t "As soon as l could get to the tele
g phone / called Sheriff Charles Kott {
Scott county, and NJ. c. Fosnes, post
: office Inspector in st. Paul"
}. Mr.. Garvey said ne thought the rof
d berry of the postoffice had been delibel
h ately planned. Il believe there wei
10 more men than the one in it, lie sal
: II am sure | heard voices on the ou
n side while we were fighting. After
.. had time to look around | saw that I'll
: man had made an easy entry into I'll
al Htoic. H;tu IelG .tHc IcsaI WHiuoW oi't
n and he had simply taken off II
!, screen.
- Savage is q village of few hui
:, dred inhabitants on the Omaha raj
= road, on the line between Hennepi
!, Dakota and Scott counties. 1t is 81
: uatcd in the latter county, and it
thought by the postoffiee authorit
that perhaps the robbers believed th
a large sum Of money was being sci
& through the mails to the Savage fari
From, Mondays Daily.
With the death of former Congress
y man and Lieutenant Governor Jam
B. Wakefield at Blue Earth Frida
comes to light a romance seldom hea
of except in fiction, and as a fifth
\ climax the remains of the we'll know
pioneer will be buried Monday best
the sweetheart of his youth in lit
cemetery at Cleveland, Ohio, says 1
Saint Paul Pioneer Press.
Many years ago, when the man W