The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-08-18


From thursdays Daily.
Fred Felber is locked up in the
county Jail at LeSueur Center charg-
ed with having had hand in the
murder of the stranger at LeSueur
a week ago Saturday night. Felber
was taken into custody about five
o'clock yesterday afternoon and he
was Immediately autoed TO LeSueur
Center. Other parties are suspected
of being mixed up in the crime.
Felber is an employee of the Oma-
ha road AT LeSueur He has been a
shoveler at the coal chute for some
years. He is about thirty-eight years
old
Father and Son Talk.
Yesterday afternoon John Green
had talk with his son Hall at the
jail in lie Sueur Center and advised
him to tell the truth about the MUIR
der Hall is said to have implicated
Felber i'm the murder. Hall is re-
ported to have made the statement
that he received Sc of the $3.50 that
was taken from the dead mans
pockets.
1t is said that Hall Green has made
a confession of the murder and that
this confession was listened to by
County Attorney HanZel, Detective
Fielding and Mr.. Baker, a newspaper
man at LeSueur Center. The authori-
ties have refused TO make public
the confession.
Warrant Caused Surprise.
However, it is said that Felber
was taken into custody on the
strength of a statement made by
Hall Green. Late yesterday after
noon Sheriff Keogh came from lie
Sueur Center and took Felber back
with him. Later, at least an hour
afterwards, County Attorney Hanzel
applied to and obtained from Judge
Anderegg and swcre out a warrant
in which Felber is charged with
murder. When this information was
brought to the attention of the de-
tective he said: II am sorry for this.
The county attorney has the right, OF
course, but | am sorry he acted to-
day"
1t is understood that Detective
Fielding and Coroner Burnett were
anxious to keep the fact OF Felber's
arrest away from the public, and
newspaper men were requested not
to chronicle that piece of news in
their papers. 1t was given out this
morning that Felber would be re-
leased from custody, but at one
O'Clock today he was still an inmate
of the Jail at LeSueur Center.
Status Of the Case.
The LeSueur News says: ut is
tacitly admitted that Pat Master
son, in Jail, charged with murder, is
not guilty, and also admitted that
other arrests will be made soon 1t
begins to look as though the case
is far from settled one, though
two are in Jail charged with murder,
and another, the colored boy, held
as a witness. The detective seems
to be using effort to be right and
certain of his ground before he acts.
The coroner is working with him
faithfully and the citizens of LeSueur
hope they will be correct when they
finish and that no innocent man will
have to suffer wrongfully, nor
guilty one escape the punishment
due him for the heinous crime COM
mitted."
Dead Man Identified.
G. E. Burnett, coroner, has estab-
lished the identity of the murdered
man. This was accomplished through
a letter that was found beside the
dead body and was signed by a Mrs.
Rugs, Ottumwa, Iowa, and addressed
to her son. Coroner Burnett at once
wrote to her and described the body.
She identified it as her son Harry,
from the description. The lady, it
seems, is very poor. Her son has
not been at home for three years.
He was a railroad switchman, about
thirty-eight years old. The marks on
his back, mentioned few days ago,
were from an operation. The father,
a Union soldier, is dead. The widow,
and mother, through her friends, ex-
poets to be able to defray the ex-
pense of taking the body to her
home for interment, according to a
statement in The LeSueur News.
Felber and Pat MastersOn were in
a mix-up near the coal chute on the
day of the murder.