Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-02-01
PEOPLES L. STORE
IS BURGlAR|zED
MADE THRU REAR
WINDOW MONDAY NIGHT. ss47o
TAKEN FROM SAFE AND ALSO
TWO REvoLvERs

County Attorney Eckstrom and sher-
1T Forsbers Take up clews and
Soon Locate the BURGLARS
The Peoples Store was entered by
burglars on Monday night and robbed
OF $9470, contained in the safe and
also OF two revolvers and some boxes
OF cartridges. When C. F. Johnson,
the delivery clerk, who also tends 10
the heating plant, arrived at the store
IN the morning he at once discovered
that the store had been entered dur
Ing the night and at once telephoned
9. E. Lundquist, the manager. En-
trance had been made thru the win
dow OF the small Office room in the
rear, the wire screen having been re.
moved and the glass smashed so as
to make an opening for a person to
crawl thru. Upon investigation it
was discovered that the money that
had been placed in the safe am the
close Of business on Monday had dis
appeared, and two new revolvers and
some boxes of cartridges were also
missing. The combination of the
safe had not been completely turned
oil when the store was left in the eve
ming, hence the safe was easily open
ed.
County Attorney Eckstrom and
Sheriff Forsberg were notified of the
robbery and they Immediately pro-
ceeded to gather up all the clews
they could find with view of captur-
ing the culprits. Tracks in the new
ly fallen snow showed that two per-
sons at least had been engaged in
the robbery, one of them wearing
overshoes and the other moccasins
The tracks were traced as far as the
court house, but there, owing to the
snow having drifted. they were lost
Yet this was an important clew as it
showed the direction in which the
robbers had gone and in all probabili-
ty also the part of the city in which
they lived. This and other clews
pointed strongly to Gordon Hull, a
seventeen-year-o boy, as one of tie
perpetrators of the burglary. He
had been in the store the day previ-
Gus and from the clerks with whom
he was well acquainted, he had casu-
ally inquired whether anyone slept in
the store at nights, and had also
priced the revolvers that were stolen
On the day after the robbery he also
came into the store, and talked about
the robbery as innocently and uncon-
t.ernedly as could be, yet it was no
ticed that when Sheriff Forsberg
came in, he became somewhat start
led and went out Sheriff Forsberg,
after comparing all these and other
clews that he had secured, decided
that Gordon was one Of the guilty
parties and after dinner he arrested
him and brought him to the county
attorneys office, where the boy at
first strongly protested his innocence,
yet after having been put thru a
sweating process, admitted his guilt
by thrusting his hand into an inside
pocket withdrawing therefrom wad
of money which he handed to the
county attorney, saying, aHere is it,
A five dollar gold piece was hid in
his shoe. Part of his share of the
money and the two revolvers, he said
were hid in the house. He also told
who his partner in crime was, name
II Arthur Olson, a neighbor boy OF
about the same age. Arthur was also
brought before the county attorney.
He put on very bold front at first,
but seeing that Gordon had confessed
and advised him to own up, he finally
did so and told that he had his share
Of the money in the hay loft Of the
barn at his home. This money was
also secured, so that all the money
taken, lacking only about 25 cents
was recovered.
The boys were before Justice Brag-
sans by whom they were bound over
to the grand jury, and after that TAX
en- to the county Jail. As soon as
Judge Grindeland returns they will
probably appear before him, confess
their guilt and ask for immediate sen
tence, which very likely will be a
term for each IN the reformatory at
st. Cloud.
After having broken the window,
the boys said that they withdrew and
lid behind some buildings that they
might see 4 any persons would be at
tracted 10 the place by the crsah
made Noticing none, they entered
thru the opening.