The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-04-22
LOOKED into PISTOL
SHERIFF OF REDWOOD COUNTY
HAS AN EXPERIENCE.
Starts After a Person Who He Had
Reason to Believe a Safe Cracker;
Is Held-Up at Point of a Gun; St.
Paul Chauffeur a Witness to Per-
formance; the Officer Summons
Posse, Man Hunt Is On

st. Paul, April l5.-James Allen,
chauffeur for the Central Auto COM
pany, PA West Sixth street, st. Paul,
is in custody at Redwood Falls, and
the members of the National Guard
company of the latter city are scOur-
ing the country for passenger whom
he took from st. Paul last evening,
and who is suspected of being Il bank
robber.
The flight of the mysterious passen-
GER, whom Allen describes as II tall,
slim young man with freckled face
and black hair, followed an encounter
with Sheriff B. Z. Schueller of Red
wood county, in which that official
was made hors de combat, and only
by the use of the rural telephone was
able to intercept the st. Paul auto
mobile In fact, the alleged bandit
held up the sheriff and his posse OF
one, and sot holes in the tire of the
motor car that was pressed into ser
vice by the officer
Sheriff Schueller Is Held UP.
When Sheriff Schueller, with the
memory of the robbery of the State
bank at Seaforth, Mimi, fresh in his
mind, was notified at q a. IN. by
some other suspicious person that an
automobile had been running about
the country in the light of the moon,
he promptly set forth to lind the car.
He suspected the occupants were after
the bank robbery booty which might
|. have been planted.
A. c. Burmcstcr of Redwood Falls
and his car were used by the sheriff.
They ran westward from the city. and
when Il few miles out, encountered
the ST. Paul automobile.
Commanded Occupants to Halt.
The sheriff commanded the occu
pants to halt and, climbing into the
vehicle, placed the two men under ar
rest, it is said. CHANGING toward the
mysterious passenger, moment later,
he looked into large revolver and
heard the order to get out. The sher
iii retreated and appealed to Burmcis-
ter. But the later also was covered
by the weapon. and 1o.h j" and the
sheriff were ordered to march. lhcy
had not gone far from the car when
| the passenger made Il target of the
tires of Burmcistcr's car and put it
out of service The sheriff, from
farm house. then telephoned to Il dep
uty at Redwood Falls, toward which
| the st. Paul car had proceeded.
| Allen, the chauffeur, says that be
| fore the deputy stopped him in the
town his passenger ordered the car to
slow down and told him not TO look
around. When the deputy halted him,
Allen says he was amazed to find his
passenger had fled.
Car Taken at Seventh Street.
| Allen declared at Redwood Falls
that the stranger engaged the car at
Seventh and Wabasha streets, st. Paul,
at six o'clock Wednesday evening. or
dering that he be driven into the
country and indicating the direction
They ate supper at Arlington and got
a supply of gasoline. Redwood Falls,
liz uistdHts WAS
! about a. m. The passenger directed
that he be driven to Delhi. few
miles distant. Before they had gone
far he asked that the car should go
to Belview. From the latter place
they returned toward Redwood Falls
and met the sheriff. At no time. ac-
cording to Allen, did the passenger
leave the car.
Rev0lverS in the Auto.
1t was reported at Redwood Falls
this morning that a number of revolv-
ers were found in the captured auto
mobile.
The manager of the Central Auto
company said that the car was en-
gagged at one o'clock Wednesday
afternoon. He said another car had
started for Redwood Falls to recover
The car. He refused to give the name
registered by the renter of the car.
A long distance telephone message
from Redwood Falls, Mimi. this morn.
ing brought the information of the
capture of automobile No. Dos Min
nesota, and the company that OWNS it
then learned where it had gone