The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-12-08

lNESOTA, FRIDAY, DEC
MRS. FRE|L WAS JUST
| ABOUT TO LEAVE TOWN
Mrs. J. G. Friel, formerly of Man.
kato, and who was recently found
guilty of running a disorderly house
at 1870 Chestnut avenue, Minneapo-
lis, and the chief victim in a sensa-
tional society raid" by the police
and in the subsequent trial, was
yesterday arrested at a room in the
Dyckman hotel as a fugitive from
Justice With her was Ray l.. Glen.
ems of Three Forks, N. ID. The pair
had checked their baggage for the
tickets for Philadelphia in his pocket
and it was just an hour before train
time when the arrests were made.
The woman whose bail of $3.50 was
forfeited yesterday when she failed
to go to the workhOuse to begin her
sentence of three months, at the ex.
piratiOn of a stay of ten days, had
been stopping at the Dyckman since
Friday night with Clemens, it is
said, who now appears as new
factor in the case.
The couple, who were registered
under the name of 'Mr. and Mrs. ].
F. White, Portland, Ore.," now oc.
cupy cells at Central police station,
Mrs. Friel on a commitment which
sent her to the work house today,
and Clemens on evidence which the
city attorney says may warrant a
charge of aiding and abetting in
the escape of q fugitive"
Mistake Made in the Date.
Mrs. Friel denies that she was in
flight when captured and says she
thought she did not have to give
herself up until eleven o'clock today.
She told the police and Matron
Schaeffer that Clemens was her
brother from the country. Clemens
says Mrs. Friel is not related to
him and that she has cost him about
500 in dinners and theatres and
other expenses in the last four days.
He says he was not aware that Mrs.
Friel was in trouble, knew nothing
of the society raid" and believed
the woman's representation to him
that her husband was dead and that
oh LOT nf
Minneapolis.
Yesterday Mrs. Friel left Clemens
at the Dyckman with the excuse that
she had to go to the court house
to see about some of her city prop.
erty. Instead, Mrs. Friel met her
husband, J. c.. Friel, 706 Cherokee
avenue, ST. Paul, with whom she had
made a reconciliation since her SEN
tence, and appeared before Judge
Leary in his chambers at the court
house. Representing that she was
united with her husband, Mrs. Friel
begged that the sentence be remit
ted to a fine. Judge Leary told her
he still believed she deserved the
limit. When s,irs. Fiel was found
guilty, Judge Leary, Sia sentencing
her to ninety days in the workhouse,
the maximum penalty, said he did so
on account of the youth of the girls
who were found in Mrs. F'riePS fiat.
Woman's Bail Is Forfeited.
When Mrs. Friel failed to appear
in court to give herself up yesterday
Judge Leary ordered her cash bal.
of $3.50 forfeited and a bench war
rant issued for her arrest. The po-
lice were called upon to arrest the
woman forthwith. Detectives went
to st. Paul to watch the home of
Mr.. Friel, and others laid in wait
about the Chestnut avenue fiat. The
railway stations were watched and
a general search of the twin cities
was started for the woman.
Detective Brunskill went to the
fiat and found that the furniture had
been moved out last week. He
found neighbor who had seen an
eXpressman take a trunk out of the
fiat Friday. Brunskill found the COM
pany the man was working for. On
the company's books it appeared
that the trunk had been delivered to
a false number on Park Avenue
Boulevard" The detective made a
hurried canvass of down town ex-
pressmen and found one who had
taken trunk from the fiat to the
Dyckman hotel Friday. Brunsklll
had seen the trunk when he raided
the fat. Going to the Dyckman no.
tel, he searched the trunks in the
baggage room in the basement and
found one he believed was Mrs.
Friels. The trunk was packed and
had been checked to the Milwaukee
station to get train at 6:45 p. m.
REGISTERED as Mr.. and Mrs. White.
The hotel register showed that the
trunk belonged to 'Mr. and Mrs. }.
c. White, Portland, Ore" Not wish
ing to brighten Mr.. and Mrs. White,
should they not prove to be Mrs.
Friel and companion, Brunskill
took off his coat and went to the
room on the fourth floor in a sweat
err jacket He carried lighted can
die in one hand and a monkey
wrench in the other and was pre-
pared to examine the plumbing in
the room, if the occupants did not
happen to be the ones he wanted.
He raped at the door and woman
answered.
1t was Mrs. Friel, who had been
interrupted in the act of wrapping
a large picture hat in paper and
packing it away. She was dressed in
q TRAVELLING sniff She recognized the