The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-09-22

and does anything that turns up
while Mrs. Krummell takes il
washing. This fall work has been
especially scarce for Mr.. Krummel
as the rain spoiled the threshing in
which work he was occupied for a
time.
Mrs. krummell's Pathetic Tale.
Every dollar ! could save | put
in little tin box that was inside
another paper box where / kept
insurance papers and lodge books.
| have been scraping along for the
past two years trying to save
enough to buy the winter groceries,
coal, feed for the chickens; | did
not buy a new hat this year and
have nothing to wear on my head
said Mrs. Krummell today.
Five weeks ago | had $50 but
gave So to my daughter Emma to
pay her expenses down to the twin
cities where she went with my
married daughter, Mrs. Henry Theis-
sen. | had $85 left and was just
about to order the coal and coke for
the winter, but thought that if /
waited until some rainy day / could
borrow my friends team and have
my husband haul the coal home him,
self and save that expense"
Theft Five Weeks Ago.
The theft was made about five
weeks ago, but was not discovered
until the night of the fire at the
Hoerr produce plant when the flames
threatened the Kummell house and
when Mrs. Krummell ran for the
gone.
Then a search began of the
house. The other insurance papers
and lodge books in the same box
were still there, so that she knew
that no stranger had taken the
money. Upon inquiry it was found
that her own son, August, had been
burning money right and left for
the past four or five weeks.
Mrs. Krummel said: 1.-The boy
hunting, hired livery rigs to go out
in the country with, played slot ma
chimes, and divided the money with
two boy friends, Clarence Miller an
Oscar Kressel He gave young Mil
Ter $25. He bought goods at the
stores on credit, he treated all the
boys to ice cream and so on, all
with my money" complained Mrs.
Krummell, but | am glad that it
was no stranger so that we will not
have to go to the law with them"
For some time past it was known
that neighbor boy had hung
around the Krummell place but UP
till now the family, excepting the
boy, did not know the reason. Mr..
Krummell thinks that it was he who
first started the trouble by coaxing
young Krummel to take the money.
Mr.. Krummell intends to see if
he cannot have some of the dealers
in the city who sold or rented
goods to his boy, prosecuted. He
also wants to prosecute the two
young lads who were his sons ac-
completes. This morning he confer
red with Attorney w. A. Plymat and
later, the advice of the county at
torney was asked.
Boy Made a Confession.
There are four unmarried children
that depend upon Mrs. Krummel for
support and she has a hard time
to keep things going. Last year
she secured a permit from the school
superintendent to allow her son,
August to work in a knitting fac
tory, but this year the permit was
not granted. Formerly, when he had
been busy in the factory there had
never been any trouble but during
the vacation idleness the money was
stolen. When school again started
he stated that he would not go to
school and rather than be enforced
to study would skip the country. He
confessed to everything when ap-
preached by his mother. He said
that he intended to skip the coun-
try with his accomplices before he
stole the money, but that when he
got the money he had such a good
time that he thought he would stay
The family is now penniless and it
will take long time before another
$S5 can be saved.
1t is reported that the Krummell
boy dropped portion of the money
in a slot machine.