The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-02-21
Must Serve a Year in Bastile a!
Green Bay, Wis.
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
Aviator ID. f. Bennett has made
his last flight for a year at least.
Chief of Police j. w. Donahue re.
ceived a letter yesterday from Thorn
as Shaughnessy, chief OF police at
Madison, Wis. stating that the dare
devil of the sky" had been arrested
at Ashland, Wis, for passing worth
less paper and would be sent to the
state reform school in Green Bay for
year. Young Bennett was wanted
in no less than five different cities
| for passing worthless checks. He
was first discovered in Mason City,
Iowa, after that he operated in Day-
export. Ia, lie Sueur, Madison. Wis,
and Milbank, S. d. Chief Donahue
has been receiving letters almost
daily for the past few weeks asking
that Bennett be arrested if found.
He has also passed some bogus pa.
per on the Peoples State Bank of
North Mankato.
Several weeks ago, the young avi.
ator came to The Free Press, handed
in his card and stated that he was
building a beautiful little aerOpane
and that as soon as it was finished
he would circle at a dizzy height the
pure and unpolluted ozone over fair
! Mankato. A little later the aviator
! left the city without finishing the
| storied airship and on December 8,
1912 The Free Press received a let
| ter from j. ]. Mullen, who was then
at Wabash, Mimi.
Was to Have Flown South.
Mr.. Mullen wished everybody to
know that he was the aviator's man
ager, and that he had held that re-
sponsible position for no less than
| thirteen months. He regretted very
much to say that owing to the recent
deaths of five aviators in the south
ern states, his client had been called
upon to fill some Of the dates left
open by the sudden stopping, after
/ long falls. of the five luckless south
ern aviators. He promised to keep
The Free Press informed of Benefits
movements by sending frequent clip
pings from the southern newspapers
relating the hair raising stunts Of
the young aviator. However. these
clippings and information in regard
20 BENEFITS doings have for some
reason failed to materialize. Mr..
Mullen evidently was not successful
in managing Aviator Bennett, for the
Young man seems to have forSaken
the celestial atmosphere and deigned
to look to the humble fOOtstOol for
gain.
Young Benefits parents. Mr.. and
Mrs Fred Bennett, are residents Of
North Mankato.
Many Checks Came In.
Cashier J. G. Struck of the Peo-
pies State bauk of North Mankato
told The Free Press today that as
many as ten or fifteen bad checks
written by Aviator ID. F. Bennett
have been sent to this bank from
other towns. protested and returned
The largest one was Il sight draft
for $50 cashed by the First Nation
n bank at Milbank S. ID. The check
was sent TO the Peoples State bank
and returned protested. Mr.. Struck
! says that young Bennett. opened a
small account last November and then
proceeded to overdraw it. He re-
ceiyed letters from Bennett from time
. to time stating that he would be in
few days and settle things up, but
Ne took no chances on the appearance
Of Mr. Bennett and refused to cash
any of Benefits checks after his &C
count had been liquidated.
1t is understood that young Ben
nett's father made some of the checks
, good but finally refused to do so as
he checks grew too numerous.
Ceylon, Mimi. February 14.-P. c.
Henningson. the banker who was de-
frauded out of $4,000 by w. J. Reid,
alias Carr, on a bogus certificate of
deposit purporting to be drawn on a
bank in Alaska, is in possession of
I $1,000 antO. formerly owned by
Reid. HenningsOn. who was said TO
be the last victim of the swindler
prior to the latter's arrest and sen
ence to the California state peniten
;ary for attempting a similar swim
lie at Fresno. went west and called
on Reid in jail For a time the prs-
! oner refused to admit his identity,
but later declared he was the man
who had victimiZed the Ceylon bank.
: Reid then gave Henningson bill of
sale for the auto as part payment of
he money he had secured.
The automobile has been d bone OF
) contention among those who had
claims against Reid. 1t was in pos
session of j. E. Markley, who defend
ID Reid at Rockford, Iowa, where the
latter was sued for payment of a
note. When Mr.. Henningson received
: the bill of sale he paid Mr.. Markley's
! claim and took over the machine.
Mr.. Henningson, who returned re-
! Gently from the coast, states that
Reid, in prison. ,presented an en-
tirely different appearance from the
> man who received $4,000 from his
bank. Reid is slim and baldheadcd.
When he called at the Ceylon bank
he was padded SO that he appeared
1ortly and he wore wig. He had
he same disguise wnen he attempted
. % secure money from the Fresno
/, bank
a jury in the district court this
{ | morning brought in u verdict i'll the
/ case OF Anna Wittmers against Jo-
0 seph He'll. granting the plaintiff the
! sum of 81. The dispute was over
4 he renting of farm belonging to the
plaintiff The defendant claimed that
{ he grain raised had not been prop
!, erly divided and the plaintiff claimed
that the farm had not been properly
!; illed. There were also several minor
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