The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-07-21
OFFICER SAW M'CARTY
BUT DID NOT KNOW HIM

Minneapolis, July 19.--The Journal
says: Eleven years ago United States
Marshal William H. Grimshaw took
Jerry McCarty from Mankato to
Saltwater, where McCarty began
serving a two-year sentence for rob-
bling a postoffice in Blue Earth coun-
ty. Nine years ago Marshal Grim
shaw "staked" McCarty, just dis
charged from the state prison, to 81,
gave him some friendly advice and
encouraged him in his intention to
go west and start life anew.
Three weeks ago McCarty, who
had served part of second term at
the state prison and who was an es-
capped convict, called at the marshaPs
house in an automobile, was intro
duced TO the marshal under the name
Nolan" He did not pay back the
borrowed SO and Marshal Grimshaw
said yesterday that he had not the
famtest suspicion until yesterday
that the man who had been intro
duced to him by Fred A Briggs, extra
bailiff in federal court, as Nolan"
was in reality Jerry McCarty.
Briggs Was Given Work.
Marshal Grimshaw was mentioned
the police by A. III. benson as one
of the men on whom Briggs, Frank
f. Nimocks and McCarty had called
a few days prior to DR.. A. A. Ames'
birthday anniversary clambake. The
marshal recalled the visit as he did
his prior acquaintance with McCarty
and his acquaintance with Fred A.
Briggs who has acted fifteen days
each year at So day as a bailiff in
federal court.
II have known Fred Briggs for
years." said Marshal Grimshaw. Il
got him his job as bailiff The real
reason l recommended him for the
job was that he had borrowed $1,000
from me on his homestead several
years ago and was able to pay me
the interest with the small semi
annual payments of $45 he received
Briggs that he was good bailiff
and an extremely valuable man for
me in the place He had a wide ac-
cuaintance with people. I am surprised
at his present predicament. Briggs
has many good traits.
Surprised at the Turn of Affairs.
Il am much surprised to learn that
Jerry McCarty is the man / met
three weeks ago when Briggs came
to my house to ask me to go to DR..
Ames' clambake. With them in an
automobile was man he introduced
as Nolan They didn't come into
the house and didn't pay much at
tention to Nolan, but now that my
attention is called to it by the re-
cent development I can say that I
am almost certain that Nolan was in
reality the Jerry McCarty last saw
nine years ago. told them couldn't
20 to the clambake.
"McCarty was convicted eleven
years ago before Judge William Loeb
rem in Mankato of postoffice rob-
berry He was sentenced to two
years in prison. | took him from
Mankato to Saltwater | remember
that his hand was just third longer
and third wider than mine. He was
splendid man physically, but l was
no pigmy and we made the trip with
no trouble, although he was not
handcuffed and | had no revolver.
On the way to Saltwater he talked a
lot about train robberies and other
About two years after l took Nc
Carly to Saltwater he appeared in
my office at st. Paul, said he was
just out of prison, broke and want
ed ST. l gave him 50 and l never
saw him again until he came to my
house and then | didn't know he
was Jerry McCarty. A few months
ago l read in the papers that Nc
Carly had been killed in Iowa.
''Pll bet $1,000 to one cent that
McCarty didn't have Minnesota fed
eral marshal's badge
st. Paul, July 19.-That was thirty
years ago. After a terrible expia-
ton, leaving him all but totally deaf,
weaker even tHilu HIS SeNenly-IWO
years can explain, his teeth black
ened and his body wasted, Fred
Klingbeil walked out of the state
penitentiary at Saltwater at noon
yesterday, free man.
He had been given conditional
pardon, and "Archie" NJ. Hayes, en-
ecutive clerk to the governor, brought
the papers.
Klingbeil looked on electric cars
he has never before seen; on rail
road trains, the like of which he has
never ina gined; on the skyscrapers,
seemingly to top the clouds; on au-
tomobiles he has gazed at only
through the grated windows of the
prison; he listened to the sound of
telephones he has never used. He
encountered and was a stranger to
all the discoveries the activities of
men have wrought in the past thirty
years.
This is the debit side in the ac-
count of the state of Minnesota
against Fred Klingbeil, murderer.
On the credit side, the state put