The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-12-06
OF GOOD TIME
ENDS FUN IN JAIL CELL
He Travelled Spacious Avenue of
Vice and HiIarity.
TOLD HIS STORY TO REPORTER
Forgery and ENLIGHTENMENT Are the
Charges Laid W. Against E. S.
Brown, Minneapolis.

Another Jolly good fellow" and all
round good times deyotee has made
his way to Mankato and was landed
here yesterday afternoon by Chief OF
Police J. w. Donahue. The man is
E. S. Brown of Minneapolis; recently
employed as city buyer and sales
man for the Twin City Provision
company. He is a self-confessed
forger and embezzler, and his only
excuse for his unprecedented pro
cedure along the smooth and spa
cious avenue of vice and crime is
his uncomfortable desire to have the
most hilarious happy time of his life
with an exceedingly charming young
woman whom he claims as his wife
He became an embeZzler for her
sake and then forged checks on a
most generous employer to make a
getaway. When at the end of his
rope Brown was caught here yester
day afternoon after description OF
him had been telephoned by the Min
neapolis police to the local depart
ment.
CONFESSED his Urine.
Brown was stopping at the Helm.
rich hotel, and after putting up a
very weak bluff at being the wrong
man he broke down and confessed
everything to Chief of Police Dona
hue. He claims that he is much bet.
ter satisfied to be caught and sent
back for he says the cloud of guilt
upon his conscience is killing him
He says he intended to go back and
give himself up in a day or two al
the most After being informed oil
| the capture of the man by Chief Don
ahue, the Minneapolis police depart
ment sent a man to Mankato to es
cort the culprit back to the scene
of his crime. The officer arrived
last night and left with Brown in
custody on the 4:45 Omaha train
this afternoon. Browns story of his
frolic with the good times bug and
the subsequent chase given him by
the police after his little fling was
told to The Free Press as follows
Got GIoriously Drunk.
"On Monday, November 18, pro
ceeded to get gloriously drunk and
was sent out by my firm to do some
collecting. | kept $25 of the money
| collected. | then bought eight
cases of eggs and two cases of but
ter for the company and sold them
before turning them into the com
pany and appropriated the proceeds
This made a deficit in the com
panys treasury of little over $10O
had about $3.50 of my own and
on the following day in company
with my wife 7 left for Chicago
where we intended to have the most
glorious good time that either of us
had ever experienced. She had about
S85 and We were we'll fixed fol
some time. She did not know OF
my embezzlement at this time.
Had High Old Time.
1--WE stopped at the New Brevoort
hotel for a week, and saw every
thing in the city that is worth see
ing. One day we spent in Val
paraiso, Ind, where ! borrowed $5C
more. After spending week and
all the cash I had in the grand old
city we returned to Minneapolis and
| found that | was in bad. had
bought the eggs for the company
of Morris & Co., and when | went
to them and tried to settle up they
were exceedingly obstinate. My
friends and my wife did all in their
power to get Morris & Co. to take q
cash refund for the eggs, but in
vain. My employer, A. l.. Lawson
sales manager for the Twin City
Provision company, also tried to get
me out of my scrape, but all to nc
avail. Morris & Co. were obdurate
and determined to make trouble fol
me.
Detectives on His Trail.
81 then found out that detectives
were on my trail and that 1t was
time for me to beat it and all had
was $40. | then forged four checks
totaling about 500, using the name
of my employer, A. l.. Lawson, and
making them payable to myself
This was easy for l am so well
known in Minneapolis that I could
have got thousands of dollars If
had wanted them. / left town and
stopped first at Thief River Falls;
from there 1 went to Detroit, Mimi.
and then to Fargo, N. ID. Thanks
giving day | spent in Moorhead in
company with bunch of travelling
statesmen and we almost succeeded
in drinking the town dry. But
couldn't stay away from my wife
and my home SO | returned to st.
Paul and registered at the Avalon
hotel, using my own name. My wife
also wanted me to come back and
try to square things up again, and
/ wanted to do SO myself for the
persecution of guilty conscience is
awful.
Came to Mankato.
again l was broke and my wife
again came to my assistance with
$25 more On Sunday l got scared
again and told my wife l was COM
ing to Mankato and would register
as Sam Brown. i did this-with the
result which you now see. feel
fine in this cell, some of the load is
lifted off my conscience and | place
implicit faith in my wife and her in
fluence to get me out of my scrape.
She has plenty of money-or her
folks. have-and good deal of infiu,
ence. NJ ; phoned to her yesterday
tafternoon after they got me and told
Continued on Papa Two