The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-01-24

woman AFTER Sne nau TORN IL mtg
bits and was attempting to swallow
the pieces. 1t was pasted together
by Detectives Gleason, Broderick and
Irving and deciphered under a mag
nifying glass. Then the woman told
the police how she and other mem
bers of the gang expected to black
mail the owners Of the Wilkinson
hotel, 500 Tenth avenue south.
From her statements the police
cleaned the following:
Made Serious Charges.
Friday afternoon she went to pc
lice headquarters and told Chief Mar
Williston hotel by an Omaha employ
ment agency. She said she went to
work at the hotel Tuesday night, was
kidnapped an hour later, carried to
a room on the first floor and impris
oned there until three o'clock Friday
morning when she was rescued by
one of the men sent to annoy her
who had taken pity on her.
She said she had been subjected
to brutal and indecent attacks while
prisoner in the room, but had
finally been liberated when one OF
her tormentors returned early Fri
day, broke open the windows to her
room and carried her, sick and weak
to the La Mar hotel, 719 Third
street south, where she regained her
strength.
Saturday Detectives Broderick and
Irving were sent to investigate the
truth of the story She persisted in
the story before employees of the vii.
liston hotel. The detectives were
suspicious and Frederick found a
letter in her handbag. In an insto
she seized it, tore it in strips, stuffed
it into her mouth and began to chew
it. The detectives seized her by the
throat and regained the torn frag
mentS.
Letter to North Dakota Man.
The letter was to man in a
North Dakota city, and told of the
success of an attempt to blackmail
a hotel keeper in Omaha
She confessed to the detective then
that she had come to Minneapolis to
play the same game ~ '"n owners
of the Williston hotel. She said that
the story she had told Chief Martin.
son was untrue and that she had
left the hotel after staying there a
day, merely to lay the foundation for
the rest OF the plot that was to have
been carried out by her two male
companions. She said that the plan
was that when she had sworn out
a warrant against the keepers of the
hotel her companions would make an
offer to the keeper to have prosecu.
ton against him dropped if he would
pay them a sum of money. Then
they and the woman would leave the
city.
! She told the detectives they had
worked the scheme successfully in
Fargo, N. d., Aberdeen, S. D., Oma
hay Fremont, Neb., Helena, Mont
and in other northwestern cities
which she could not recall. She later
denied the truth of her confession
then denied that she had denied the
story.
She is about twenty-four years old
said she had been married, told the
detectives that Goodwin was not her
true name and defied them to learn
her identity.
st. Paul, January 20.-The judicial
reform committee has made the fore,
going recommendation in its report
submitted Saturday to Governor
Eherhart z
Governor Eberhart transmitted the
report to the legislature today, &C.
companied by special message
The commission. besides Chief Jus.
tice Brown. included District Judges
Brill. Hale Dibell, McClenahan, and
Attorneys John G. Williams. Stiles
w. Burr. Pierce Butler, H. C. Carl
son, George P. Flannery and Price
Wickersham.
The recommendations of the com,
mission are as follows:
Increasing the number of associ.
ate justices of the state supreme
court by two.
Giving the supreme court power tn
hold more than two terms year.
Providing for appeals from all mu
nicipal courts to Minnesota district
courts, instead Of the supreme
court.
Providing that five-sixths of a
jury in civil case may return a
verdict after ten hours elaboration
Abolishing appeals from orders
granting new trials on ground of in.
sufficiency of evidence.
Abolishing appeals from orders
overuling demurrers.
Limiting the defendants peremp
tory challenges in criminal actions
punishable by life Imprisonment to
/, ten, the same as the state.
| Increasing the peremp tory chal
lenges of the state in OTTER criminal
cases from three to five, the same as
defendant.
Giving the state closing argument
in erin: inal cases.
Giving court power to exclude from
jury room all jurors not being ex
amined.
Providing less expensive methods OF
perfecting appeals.
The fire boys had three runs be
tween noon yesterday and six o'cloci
this morning, but none of them was
of any consequence The first fire
was at noon yesterday at the resi-
dence occupied by A. G. Person a
All Glenwood aveune There was
small fire in the second story, start
ing from stove. The damage wa.
very slight. The house was owned