The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-02-14
SAYS He NEEDED CASH
CARRIED AWAY A BANK
From Fridays Daily.

young man, was arrested yesterday
on the charge OF grand larceny in
the second degree, was arraigned
about four o'clock in the afternoon
in the municipal court. John T.
Regain acted as his attorney. but has
not as yet been retained. Young Jen
sens mother is dead and it appears
that the boy has been brought up by
by an older sister. His father is a
travelling man and the boy does not
see him very often. He said yester
day that his father would not be
home for about two weeks and that
he did not know where 10 reach
him. lie did not appear to care very
much whether his father was reach.
cd or not and did not hope for any
relief from his present situation from
that quarter.
Will Plead Tomorrow.
He did not make any plea yester,
day afternoon as Mr. Regain thought
il would be better TO have a talk
with his sister first. The case was
continued until eleven o'clock this
forenoon. II is charged in tho com
plant that the amount of money
stolen from the Franklin restaurant
vas $50. but the boy says that there
was only $ll in the bank which he
took. He says that there were sew
cral boys in the Franklin about one
o'clock on the morning OF the theft
and that the boys were talking about
how easy II would be to take the
bank. Some of them even picked
il up and were guessing how much
il held By It's weight. Then he says
that as he needed the money il oc-
CURED 10 him to annex the bank.
Denies Other Thefts.
All knowledge OF the other petty
theftS and robbcries which have been
perpetrated here the boy strongly de-
MES. He says that he had no ac-
complete and knows of no one who
would be likely TO have taken the
money from Coy's bus barn or from
The other places in town which were
burglari2ed. He said that he did not
even know that Conner Jones store
and Schroeder and Murphy's hard
ware store had been entered but he
remembered of reading in the papers
about the Flo, Pugh and Brockmeyer
robbery.
Jensen has been i'll. and was
hardly able TO be around yesterday
He said that he would have come
alter his suit case before but has
been confined 10 his home on ac-
count of the mumps and grippe. He
looked i'll yesterday. After his hear
ing he was taken into custody by
the sheriff and confined in the bas-
tile on the hill.
Victor Jensen, when brought before
the court this morning, waived ex.
animation. John f. Regain appeared
rs his attorney. Jensen will be held
TO await the action of the grand
jury in the June term of the dis
lrict court. His bail was fixed at
$500. Jensen's father has been ap-
prised OF his sons arrest and is ey.
pected 10 arrive home sometime to!
day.
\ complaint has 1een sworn out
against Charles Aldo by Frank
Craven charging Aldo with using
language intended to provoke as
sanlt Aldo made a plea of not
guilty III the municipal court this
morning. 1t appears that Aldo, an
other yourg man and TWO young la
dies were having a game Of love in
the dark" in a hallway last Sunday
evening. One OF the young ladies
lives in a fiat of the hallway and
Frank Craven lives in the same
building. ii Abdo's story be true,
Mr.. Graven's mother became alarm.
ed at the noise in the hall made by
the joyous young people and when
her son came home told him about
it. By this time the happy quartet
had moved down the hallway and
entered another corridor which was
not SO near the Craven rooms. 1t
seems that Craven came down the
hall and ordered the young people
out. After 4 little demur they went
and Craven then followed down
stairs. Aldo says that when they
were again upon the street Craven
bit him several times with a short
whip. He took the whip away from
Craven and has it as evidence. 1t is
quite probable that some argument
followed after which Craven swore
out the complaint against Aldo. The
case was continued until two o'clock
this afternoon.
The case, which was continued I'M
til this afternoon at two O'Clock, was
again continued until three o'clock
on account of the fact that the at
rorney for the defense. c. o. DALEY,
had case in the district court set
for two o'clock today.
Early last summer T.. B. Nedyed
n young man who came to Butter
field from Iowa, accepted a position
as night operator in the tower at
the crossing of the Omaha and
Northwestern railroads. His hours
were from midnight until eight
o'clock a. m, three shifts being used,
and as part of his duties he cared
for the mails arriving and going on
the night trains.
or late many complaints were
made at the Butterfield postoffice of
goods and packages, mailed by
friends at Christmas time and from
department stores at various points,
failing to reach their destination at
Butterfield, and Postmaster Ems has
been at a loss to account for the
missing parcels.
Discovered the Goods.
Some ten days ago employees at
the railway tower discovered a
quantity of goods, parcels, ETC., stow.
ed away under the floor of the tow.
er, where q register had been re-