The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-12-27
MEYER BOUGHT CARD
CLERK RECALLED SALE
From Thursdays Daily.

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From Thursdays Daily.
That Fred Meyer, missing from
his home in Pleasant Mound, pur-
chased a postcard in New Ulm on
Monday morning, penned few lines
on 1t and sent it to his wife, has
been found to be true. ~,
Meyer entered the drug store of
o. NJ. Olsen at New Ulm about eight
O'clock Monday morning and after
looking over the stock of pictorial
postcards, selected one which met
with his favor He paid the clerk
| a penny for it and after asking tho
location of the postoffice. departed
| from the store.
located Clerk Who Sold Card.
| Chief OF Police Klause and Her
man Meyer, brother of the missing
man, this morning made the rounds
of all the stores in New Ulm where
picture cards are, Sold, and when
they called at Mr.. Olsen's drug store
they had no difficulty in finding the
clerk who identified the card. The
clerk stated that the stranger came
into the store about eight O'Clock
and asked permission to look over
the picture postcards. The clerk
was accommodating and Meyer, soon
selected a card which appeared to
please him. 81 was very particular
| to size up the man because I knew
The was stranger" said the. clerk,
| Andrew Amann, Jr, 81 observed he
thad a yellow dog with him, and I
made some remark about the ami.
NAL. The stranger did not appear
Ito have great deal of money with
him. --sse. 49, ..s
/ : Described Fred Meyer.
5"He was a twen:built man, dressed
/ in q Russian lamb-skin black fur
tovercoat, wore blue. overalls, black
/ under coat and q brown sweater"
This description answers that Of
i Meyer, as given to Chief Klause by
Herman Meyer.
Mr. Amann states that Meyer talk
ed in a rational manner and he did
not appear to be excited JOSEPH.
Karl, the clerk at the postoffice, also
remembers Meyer. He recalls hay
Ling sold him the one cent. stamp
that was placed on the postcard.
/ But Meyer appears to have drop
I, ped of the earth after mailing the
! postcard. Chief OF Police Klanse
and his assistants searched New
Ulm for other cleWs that might lead
to the missing mans whereabouts,
but they have found none. No one
else had seen Meyer. Restaurant
and saloonkeepers had not seen the
man. x
! Nothing Doing in St. Peter.
! nd N.
law, Albert Breitenfeld, were in st.
Peter late yesterday and last night,
i but no trace of the missing man
could be found in that city.
i Chief of Police Klause has tele-
j phoned Meyers description to the
police in towns within radius OF
fifty miles of New Ulm, but up to
i this afternoon the much ssought-for
Meyer could not be located.
! Are in st. James. =
Herman; Meyer and Albert Breiten-
field departed for ST.. James. Before
leaving that city they wired to a
cousin in Wanda and sister in
! South Haven, Stearns county, asking
them if they had seen Mr.. Meyer aud
i requesting them to inform Mrs.
Z Meyer if her husband should put in
! an appearance at either place. =, ~,
+ Herman Meyer believes that his
brother Is alive and that he simply
wandered away. =
] It is thought by the police at New
lulm that Fred Meyer stayed over
might with some farmer, living near
/ New Ulm, and that as soon as no
4 mailed the postal card to Mrs. Meyer,
he got right ont of town. -.
I Watching and Waiting.
| At the home in Pleasant Mound,
Mrs. Meyer is anxiously watching
/ and waiting for the return of her
husband. Aside from the postcard
] she received from her husband on
Tuesday morning. she has heard
/ nothing Naturally she is much
! worried over Mr.. Meyers sudden
and mysterious 1eave-taking. Moth
ling has been heard of Meyer at
! LeWisville.-
Hope in New Clue.
Deputy Sheriff Ed. Ario has dis
/ covered what he thinks is new
| clue in the investigation Of the
mysterious disappearance of Fred
Meyer. Mr.. Ario talked to Mrs.
Fred Meyer this morning over the
phone and happened to ask her who
/ her husband bought the farm from
| that was mentioned in The Free
Press Immediately following the dis
! appearance of Mr.. Meyer. 1t was
understood at the time by the sher.
! if and by the newspaper men that
the farm was near the one on which
the Meyer family now reside. Mrs.
Meyer said that this was a mis-
take and that the farm was near
/ Carlyle, not far from Fergus Falls
in otter Tail county. Deputy Ario
sent a rather lengthy telegram to
Sheriff J. S. Billings Of Otter Tail
| county and requested him to ask
the marshall of Carlyle. to- make
/ investigation in regard to the mat
ter. The farm was bought from the
Uin Land company and a payment
ion the land should have been due
| in a few days. If Mr.. Meyer has
arrived at Fergus Falls or Carlyle
the land company will probably know
about it. An answer to the tele.
gram is expected this evening.
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