The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-01-03
DYNAMITINC BUNCH IS
GUILTY OF THE CHARGE

lHQldudpOllS, december ZS.-Wltf
the exception of Daniel Buckley O.
Davenport, Ia, and Herman Sefert
OF Milwaukee, all defendants in the
dynamite conspiracy trial were found
guilty of conspiracy and unlawfully
transmitting dynamite Those con
victed include the president of the
iron workers union.
One of the men convicted is
Charles N. Beum, Minneapolis.
st. Louis, December 2S.-Lured to
st. Louis, they say, by promise OF
marriage and the prospect of gay
life, Marceline Bersaw and Edna
Schermerhorn of Winnebago, Mimi
each about fifteen years old, were
rescued last night from the men
who brought them here. They had
been in st. Louis ten weeks.
Marceline, in spite of being close.
ly guarded, as she told the police,
managed to write to her brother,
John t. Bersaw, who took the first
train from Winnebago to ST. Louis.
He went to the address given in
the letter and found his sister. Then
he went to pOl'"c Headquarters,
where the girl told her story. The
Schermerhorn girl was later found
at a different address. The men in
the case have not been apprehended
The girls say there was a wide
rift between what they had been
promised by the two men they met
at a picnic one July day and the
treatment the same men gave them
after they came to st. Louis. Ac.
cording to their stories they were
watched carefully lest they try to
write home for aid. They were de-
MED every pleasure and the men
evaded the subject of marriage.
Missed From Winnebaso.
The two girls were missed from
Winnebago about three or four
weeks ago. Search was made for
them, but no clew could be obtain.
ed of their whereabouts. The girls
are not over fourteen or fifteen
years of age.
Said Town Was Too Slow.
st. Louis, Mo-, December 2S.-
Marsaline Bursaw and Edna Scher-
merhorn, fifteen-year-old Winnebago,
Mimi, girls who followed sweet
hearts to St. Louis because their
home town was ''too Slow" accord
ing to the explanation given yester-
day by Miss Schermerhorn, who de-
MED the fact that they had been
lured to st. Louis as the Bursaw
girl declared Thursday night, after
the arrest of both at the request of
Miss Bursaws brother, John Bur.
saw of Winnebago.
Miss Bursaw told of having been
held a prisoner in room since
October, but her charge was con-
tradicted by Miss Schermerhorn, who
had declared that Miss Bursaw was
at no time deprived of her freedom.
Everything might have worked out
all right, she believes, if her chum
had not become discouraged at the
outlook and written to her folks
that she was not being provided
for properly. Miss Schermerhorn is
a prisoner and Miss Bursaw is on
the way back to Winnebago.
The girls came to ST., Louis about
the middle of October. Miss Scher-
merhorn was to marry John Nc
kenna, eighteen years old, of 1903
Market street and her chum was TOD
wed Warren Eyrely, twenty-three
years. old. The four met in Win.
nebago while the youths were EN-
ployed at a tile factory and when
they. left for st. Louis, October 1,
they told the girls to follow them
as soon as they could.
John Bursaw arrived here yester-
Day and found his sister at 1O5
South Fifteenth street.