The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-08-04

postoffice, but that they were deter
red by their arrest there on suspicion
of having robbed the saloon and har-
ness shop at Sherburn Saturday
night.
According to Mr.. Lanes statement,
three or four men in an automobile
were hanging about in the country
adjacent to Sherburn the last of last
week and the first of this. They
acted very strangely and attracted
attention. They did not come into
the village with their auto, but the
biggest of the men came into the
village Saturday and remained sew
eral hours, and went to the postoffice
half a dozen times and asked for
mail.
Seemed to Be Sizing Up Things.
This man seemed to be sizing up
the arrangement of the postoffice,
and the young lady in charge became
| frightened and told Mr.. Lane That
night the robberies occurred at the
saloon and harness shop, but were
not discovered until Monday morn
| ing, and the autoists were suspected
and were arrested Monday where
| they were found lettering several miles
| III IHC COuHLlJ. lnSy Hdu olcpb OdJ-
urday night in a school house. There
was nothing by which the men could
! be held, and they were discharged
and left the vicinity.
The three men aside from the
chauffeur were dressed in Overalls,
and the entire party did not look
! good, and always kept their hats
! down over their eyes. The man who
Il s,,n fo,. rofl I,
| set. The car looked like a long run
about. The robberies yielded bot
tie of whisky and SIS in money Mr.
i Lane thinks that very likely these
are the men who robbed the Lake
j Crystal postoffice.
j Rev. C. d. Eldredge of DeKalb, Ill.,,
)! arrived on the 1890 p. m. train to-
day, in response to telegram from
his son, l.. A. Eldredge, who is
charged with the larceny of a tent
J He was met at the depot by Rev.
r. w. Hobbs, pastor of the local
j Baptist church. who entertained him
at dinner. After dinner, Rev. Ed
redge visited the county jail, where
he had conference with his son,
and together they went to the Of
flee of w. r. Geddes, attorney for
, the young man. The case was to
come up in the municipal court at
two o'clock this afternoon, when it
was thought that some disposition
would be made of it.
j Former Students Remember Boys.
}, Several former students at Beloit
college remember Eltlredge and Lewis
, as students there. Eldredge was a
sophomore last year, and Lewis
freshman. although Lewis is three
!, years older than Eldredge.
i Eldredge's parents had supposed
that he and Lewis were still selling
| books, as they had started out to do
; for the vacation. Rev. Eldredge is
said to be prominent in the Baptist
church. and it naturally shocked him
| to learn of the charge against his
son, and he lost no time in reaching
| MankatO.
Case Is Dismissed.
When the case against Eldredge
, was called in the municipal court
this afternoon, County Attorney
Schmitt moved for it's dismissal on
the grounds that the ends of justice
!, do not seem to require a prosecution.
Mr. Schmitt stated that the boy
seemed to have done what he did in
an unguarded moment
Motion Is Granted.
!, Judge Comstock granted the county
, attorneys motion. The costs were
| paid by Rev. Eldredge and will settle
, the bills incurred by his son.
Rev. Eldredge made the statement
to The Free Press that after looking
into all the circumstances surround
ing the case, he felt that the arrest
of his son was hardly justified. The
boy had been carried away with the
| smooth talk of a couple of carnival
attaches, and he intended to ship the
tent to it's owner after using it in
Mason City for a week. Neither
Eldredge nor Lewis have ever been
away from home before, except to
attend college, and are quite inexpe-
rienced in the ways of the world.
Rev. Eldredge and his son depart