The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-08-29

hoid-up, was captured on the george
Austin farm not great distance
from where he entered the cornfield.
Sixty dollars is said to have
changed hands on freight train
between st. James and Lake Crys-
tai this morning, following the de-
mand of G. l.. Bell, colored, who
enforced hosirdre Ok. ht2D ehrdlin h
enforced his order at the point of a
gun A man who gives his name as
George Howell was the alleged victim.
j. Tillery and John Schlimp claim
to have seen the affair, as they were
riding on the train with the two
combatants. News OF the alleged
hold-up reached Mankato during the
morning. Tillery, Schlimp, and
two colored men, John Smith
and c. H. Walker were taken into
custody as they alighted, from fright
train which arrived here from Lake
Crystal this forenoon, by order of
Marshal Tom B. Owens of Lake
Crystal. They will be held as wit
nesses Chief of Police Eli Klugherz,
Deputy Sheriff Ed Ario and Officer
A B. Johnson made the arrest OF
the four men when they arrived
here Mr.. Owens was notified of an
alleged holdup, and that one OF the
men implicated in it was colored
man. He therefore asked that the
men on the freight train be held
as it was thought that the man who
escaped with the gun had boarded
it.
Shipped to Grogan.
Tillery says that he and his three
companions and the two men in the
holdup shipped out of Sioux City
yesterday to Grogan, but upon ar
irving there they found work, but
no place to sleep, so they kept on
their way I'VE walked to st. James,"
said he, land there boarded a train
for Minneapolis. At Lake Crystal
one of the colored men and white
man got off the train, and as we
pulled out we heard the while man
tell the negro to shell out or he
would beat him up The colored
gentleman crouched down moment
as if getting ready to spring upon
his adversary, and in an instant he
Strengthened up with a long knife
in one hand and an automatic gun
in the other. We did not know that
the man was armed when he left
Sioux City. The white man ran to-
ward the city, and the colored man
with his weapons liked for a corn
field.
Talked With Marshal.
1--WE saw the white man meet the
marshal, and a few words passed
between them. 1t looks like the
marshal did not want to go after
the man with the artillery, and /
think that he gave the other man
his gun. At least, after, a very
short conversation, the white man
chased after the negro in the corn
field, and by the way they started,
they are some where near the Pan
ANA canal by this time. The brake
man, it seems also saw the fracas,
for he told us that we would all be
arrested when we got to Mankato.
And sure enough, we were"
Deputy Sheriffs Ed. Ario, Jacob
Hilgers and George Grabowinski went
to Lake Crystal this forenoon in Mr..
Hilgers' car to look for the two
men who were chasing each other.
Entered Cornfield.
Further reports from Lake Crys-
tai are TO the effect that the color
ed man with the gun entered the
Omaha passenger depot this morning
and held up two men, strangers in
Lake Crystal, getting $40 from one
and $40 from the other. Another re-
port states that the colored hold-up
man did not get any money from the
two men in the depot, but escaped
into George Austin's cornfield east
of the city. Deputy Sheriff Ed Ario,
Jacob Hilgers, George Grabowinski
and Chief of Police Eli Klugherz
went to Lake Crystal shortly after
noon today with the blood hounds.
A large posse was organized at Lake
Crystal and it surrounded the corn
field awaiting the arrival of the sher-
ifs deputies on the scene.
Bell is Captured.
G. L. Bell, the colored man who
was claimed to have held up a man
in Lake Crystal this morning, was
captured shortly after noon today by
Deputy Sheriff Ed Ario in a grove of
timber adjoining the cornfield into
which he had fed. When the party
which went to Lake Crystal to as
sist in his capture arrived in the
city, they found that about seventy
five men were surrounding a 100 acre
corn field and patch of under
brush about of about four acres.
They went in and out though the
corn field but could find no trace
of their quarry. The hounds were
taken along, but as the ground
around the field had been trampled
a great deal, the dogs could not gel
scent. .
Was Seated On Stump.
Finally Deputy Sheriff Ed AriC
came upon the man sitting upon a
stump in the brush patch His bach
was turned to the deputy, and he
was instantly covered with the of
ffcer's gun. He did not put up 8
fight, but came along peaceably
enough. He did not have gun
on his person, but when the Officer
produced the handouts, Bell Offered