New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1912-04-10
BOLD BURGLARS ANONYMOUSLY
n JAILED SUNDAY
Story Of Victor Greene Gives De-
tails Of Essis Burglary.

County bastile. The burglary first
became known last Wednesday
morning when Mr.. Heimann noticed
that some one had been in his store
the previous night.
Two strangers had been seen loiter'
ing on the streets'o of Essig the previous
DAY, one dark complexioned man
about 40 years old and the other q
more lad Of light complexion, quite a
number of years under age. and sus'
picion Immediately rested on them.
sheriff W. J. Julius and Chief Of
Police Adolph Klsuse were Immediate
" communicated with. These two
oaicials promptly set to work on the
case and notified the police officers
along the line and kept their eyes
open for the culprits here.
Saturday afternoon Chief Klause
was called up by the marshall OF
sanborn and he referred him to
Sheriff Julius who described the sus.
poets and gave the marshall all the
information about tie burglary which
he had. Sunday morning between 10
and IL O'Clock Marshall P. j. Tine
telephoned again notifying the
authorities here that he had arrested
two parties answering the description
and asked for instructions. He was
told to bring them to New Ulm on the
afternoon train which he did and
lodged them in the County Jail. Here
they gave their names ~ George
Roberts and Victor Greene. When
the suspects we're apprehended they
were wearing the shoes, the hat and
the overalls they had purloined from
Heimann's store. One of them had
on his person the second hand revolt
YER and the other "a cents 10 cash.
A representative of the Review
called at the county jail Monday after
noon for the purpose of ascertaining
the facts and, if possible, to obtain
statements from the suspects. Roberts
was not in q communicative frame OF
mind and had nothing for publication
and was decidedly on his guard.
The reverse proved true OF young
Greene, who was only too willing and
anxious to talk and seemed to have
no desire to conceal anything. He
docs not look like criminal and
does not act like one. He is son OF
Wallace Greene who was shot and
killed on the streets of Sleepy Eye by
Billy Eich about IA years ago. he
claims t. be only Is years old and
certainly does not look much older.
He says that he met Roberts on the
streets OF Sleepy Eye . week ago
Monday and got into conversation
with him. Greene says Roberts told
him to call him Tom and that he
knows him BY no other name.
Roberts suggested that they look for
work and they agreed to start out the
next morning which they did. hitting
No ties for Essig. When they neared
Essig Roberts opened up and limited
,t Ito kind of work shat he wss reslly
looking for. 4
They rsachsd Essig about noon,
took rapid survey Of the 10y Of the
land, and started down tho track
toward Now Ulm. About two miles
out, they halted and 10y down beside
tho railroad track where they re-
msined until about II O'Clock p. m.
when they retraced their steps. The
first place they struck WAS the hard
ware store which they entered thru
window in the machine shed. The
moon was bright enough so that they
had no trouble to pick their way thru
the room. The only things that found
favor in their eyes in the hardware
store was . new $500 rifle, q second
hand revolver, ammunition for both,
and "a cents in coin of the realm which |
they annexed.
They gained entrance into the Hell
mann general store thru a window !
also, helped themselves to cookies,
sew eral dozens of bananas and two |
rings of bologna sausage for q mid
night lunch, two pair OF shoes, 2 pair
of socks, one hat and one pair of
overa lis and no cash because they |
found none.
Then they hiked back to Sleepy Eye
and when within mile of that burg,
they planted the stuff, with the excep-
ton of the edibles, under some boards
and crawled into farmers barn for !!
The rest of the night. Wednesday
they got the shoes and every.
hing else except The rife and smmu.