The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-06-07
NOW SEEKS AID FROM
HIS FRIEND IN THE EAST
William Mcdowell Writes Short
Letter to DR.. F. Moore.
MANY SINS TO ANSWER FOR
MANY SINS TO ANSWER FOR
Check He Sent to Evansville Comes
Back; Deposit There Amounted
to Two Dollars.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
William Mcdowell, who was ar
rested at Klossner early Tuesday
morning by Sheriff w. j. julius OF
Brown county and Policeman Her
zog of New Ulm, has a number OF
sins to answer for. Classed among
these is his faculty for causing
landladies to worry and also of
having long fingers" His opera
tions were not confined to New
Ulm, but extended also to Man.
kato, as has been reported in The
Free Press.
Otto E. Leske of Stewart, Mimi,
who is attending the Mankato Com.
mercial college, left for New Ulm
Thursday and called on the sheriff
there for the purpose of identifying
the second cornet which was found
in the possession of William Nc
Dowell. Mr.. Leske also identified
a room at Frank Schroeder's room
ing place, GOT North Second street,
where the young student and other
young men were staying, and it is
thought that Mcdowell also stole
other articles at that place.
Was Not a Steady Boarder.
Mcdowell engaged room from
Mrs. James Hodson on South Sec
ond street the Sunday before he
left for New Ulm. He remained in
the room one night and ate break
fast, and then disappeared; leaving
no word or clue as to where he
went. For a time Mrs. Hodson was
worried as to his whereabouts, but
when she learned of his operations,
she considered herself indeed lucky
that he left without oppropriating
anything that belonged to herself
or boarders.
While in this city last Saturday
Mcdowell went to the MankatO
Savings bank and created the i'm
preston among the officers of that
institution that his name was Henry
Suit. He requested that institution
to collect for him, $3.50, which he
claimed to have gu deposit at-the
Peoples Savings bank at Evans
vile, Ind. The laeE bank sent the
bank book and a check for the
above amount to the Evansville
bank and later was advised that
Henry Suit had a deposit of only
81 and so the book and check were
returned.
Writes to Friend in East.
William Mcdowell is now in jail
at New Ulm awaiting his hearing,
which has been postponed until
dow niro of FOL ~
wrote a letter to DR.. F. Moore,
Railway, N. j., explaining that he
was under arrest and asking for as
sistance He did not say in the
letter why he was arrested. Nc
Dowell claims that he formerly
was employed by DIR. Moore. On the
corner of the envelope he wrote
the initials IN. J. R." and under
his signature, the number Poll, but
would not explain the meaning of
these marks.
Somewhat of a Prevaricator.
Among his other accomplishments,
Mcdowell is somewhat of prevarl-
Gator. He made the statement in
New UIm today that Lewis Suit
was friend of his; that Suit re-
quested him to go to the Savings
bank here and make arrangements
to collect the $3.50, which was
claimed to be on deposit there. Nc
Dowell said that he signed the name
Suit to the check and under it he
signed his own name, William NC
Dowell. An examination OF the
check does not bear out McDoWells
statement. His own name was not
signed to the paper.
Asked where he became acquaint-
ed with Suit, Mcdowell replied: ooh,
on the road" He claimed tina,
Suit was in the employ of the Ma
tional Biscuit company.
When informed that there was
only 50 on deposit to the credit OF
Suit in the Evansville bank, Nc
Dowen merely remarked that he did
not know anything about how much
money Suit had there-McDowell
admitted having stolen the cornet
from the Commercial college stu
dent.
Letter Written to Moore.
This is the letter that Mcdowell
wrote to DR.. Moore:
New Ulm, May 30-Dr. F. Moore,
Railway, N. J. Dear Sir: am
writing these few lines to let you
know that | am under arrest here
Dear doctor, l would like to know
what you are going to do, if you
are going to take me back or not
Hoping you will answer this at
once, as | am going to stop the
trial until | hear from you. Re
spectfully yours, William Mcdowell,
No. 2012"
Attempted to Sell Coins.
After he had rifled the rooms at
Mrs. Alwin's boarding house in New
Ulm, Mcdowell started for the Min
neapolis and st. Louis depot.
The sword which he stole from
Mr. Johnson at ST. Peter and which
bore the latter's name engraved Oh
the hilt, Mcdowell left at the Al
win rooming house as he apparently
had no use for it. Upon going down
town he went to the Citizens State
bank shortly before four o'clock,
where he attempted to exchange the
Norwegians coins for American
money. To Cashier William z.
Koch he stated that they were Ger
man coins which he could not use