The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-13

left reading: "This is just the be-
ginning. I'm going to get even with
youl"
At 4 D. m. Mrs. Richter left the
fat for a few minutes to visit a
neighbor. When she returned she
found the house turned topsy turvy
and a note on a table that read: Your
silver was easy"
A torn screen in the rear showed
how the burglar had entered. Mr..
Richter telephoned to police head
quarters and Captain Hansen sent
Detectives Grumpy, Howard, Neary,
Wirtensohn, and later in the evening.
Brundage and Garyin, when Richter
telephoned for more detectives.
Boy Says He Was Kidnapped.
His call was occasioned by the story
of an alleged kidnapping his son told
him. Louis said that while he was
walking along Lake of the Isles boule-
ward an automobile carrying W men
stopped near him. The two men
seized him, threw a sack over his head
and put him on the floor Of the auto
mobile. They drove for miles over
rough roads. Finally the boy managed
to wriggle from the sack and jump
ed from the automobile while II was
running at high speed. He said he
found himself in a swamp near Lake
Harriet. He crawled Owe the fence
Of the Lakewood cemetery, ran into
a clump of bushes, hid for a while
and then ran across the cemetery and
to his home. The father said the
boys clothing was in shreds when
he reached home.
Detective Grumpy took the note
left by the burglar to Professor Aid
rich. principal of the Calhoun school.
Together the two searched through the
school building by the light OF an
oil lamp and a candle, breaking open
desks and unlocking drawers with
skeleton keys, to find samples Of the
boys writing. Then found two ex-
animation papers. They compared
favorably to the handwriting Of the
burglar.
Boy Writes FatefuI Note.
Early today Grumpy went TO the
| Boyd grocery store at Lake street and
| Hennepin avenue, where Louis had
worked as a driver for three days. He
told Louis he thought the burglar was
a man named Jones, and persuaded
the youth to write a letter TO the
burglar. The boy did so. When he
had finished Grumpy compared the
writing and accused the boy. He de-
MED the charge stoutly for some time,
then admitted the detective was right.
He led the detective to the back
porch of his fathers fat, under which
he had buried the siiverware and
| other trinkets. His mothers watch
he had in his pocket. He told the de-
tectives the whole story had been a
hoax.
Boy Sent to Get Aid.
The father and mother Of the youth
were almost FRUSTRATED by fear as the
| result of the reign Of terror inaugur-
ated by him. Mr.. Richter sent the
| lad to summon a neighbor TO the
house to help him solve the mystery
of the robberies and the note, and 1t
was while he was on this errand that
ne invented the kidnapping, returning
| disheaveled and apparently exhausted
by his imaginary fight with his alb
ductors. His mother and father spent
most of the night with him before he
| threw off his affected coma n told
them the exciting tale which furnished
the climax for his adventures.
The boy was not arrested, punish
ment being left to the father.
Neighbors of the family reported to
the police that the n~eighborhood had
been terTorized lately by shots from