The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-09-27
What Was Discovered BY Police
Who Had Out Dragnet.
SAFETY SIGNS ON BOARD SHIP
Mr.. Morse, Former Ice King, Is Buck.
ling Down to Business; Coney
Is Closing.
Especial to The Free press.l

New York, September 25.-That
scores of criminal refugees from
this country and the whole world
are constantly hiding here, was de-
clared today by the police heads as
the result of their dragnet search for
"Gyp the Blood" and Lefty Louis"
In their two months of prying
through the hidden places of the
metropolis, the detectives believe
they have unearthed retreats that
are maintained to shield in safety
the most dangerous crooks that are
wanted by the police of every ma
ton Traces of many murdererS
and notorious robbers now at large
were stumbled upon by the sleuths,
though they did not gather in any but
the two gunner in their dragnet.
New York city is now believed to
be the safest hiding place in the
world for any fugitive of the under
world.
The Safety Signs.
With life-boats bristling from every
deck of the steamers plying the wa
tiers of this port, the new govern
ment demand for rescue room for
it's first fruits. Though many Of
the shipping men are this week
threatening to suspend their trips
rather than comply with the rule
that takes effect with the beginning
.of October, more of them are
carrying it out in advance. While
the memory of the Titanic horror
is still fresh in the minds of New
Workers., public opinion will brook
no delay in equipping every float
ing carrier with full means to save
its human freight.
Skipped From School.
= Charging that almost hundred
thousand of the children of this
town have skipped school from ten
to twenty days during six months
of the last term, the premature
publication of report on a recent
investigation here is this week
causing panic among the parents.
For years it has been suspected that
lax discipline has left many of the
pupils of public schools to run wild
and play truant almost at will. With
the final disclosure of the facts in
this interesting situation, it is prom
ised that the people of Gotham will
push drastic measures to reform and
enlarge it's truancy forces.
Morse Is Moving.
Buckling down to business while
others are just returning from va
cation, little Mr. Morse, the former
ice king, is now putting in long
hours at his new office in the heart
of the Wall Street district. Though
little talk has been heard of the re-
lnewed activities of the liberated
magnate, the wiser men of the
money market declare that before
the Morse interests will raise their
heads high among the rulers of
finance. Meanwhile everyone In the
stock market district is keeping an
ear and an eye upon the man who has
demonstrated his power to make
things move beneath the surface.
coney Is Closing.
With the confetti of it's closing
carnival still heaped about it, Coney
Island is just preparing to nail up its
shutters for seven long months of
winter disuse. Already many of the
resorts of the big sea city are board
ing up their entrances and moving
their effects to town. Few New
Workers ever pilgrimage to Coney
after the leaves begin to fall, and
this year it's short season seems to
be cut off even shorter