The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-02-13
Youth Has Confessed
Taking Four Dollars
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
No mystery remains now In re-
bard to the check for 81, which
was made out by DR.. c. y. Weyer,
/, the dentist, In the National Citizens
o2nk building. In favor Of Margaret
| u. Sayles OF Faribault. sealed up
In letter to her. giren with the
letter to the elevator boy. trans
ferred by MIN to Albert Spencer to
mail torn out OF the letter and
presented and cashed at the Wysong
laundry.
The guilty person Is Albert
Spencer, according to his own con-
tessica. lie has ackpog lodged not
cnly this crime, but also that he
iatcly forged seven checks to the
aggregate amount of about $50 on
tie check blanks OF the Sanitary
Dairy company, whose Office is near
his home on South Front street,
aid passed them ON various banks
and stores The checks were gen.
orally made in favor OF some ficti-
lIons name and were all against the
aairy comrany's account at The Ma.
uonal Citizens bank.
Obtained a Confession.
Chief of Police Klugherz and ofri-
Gals of the bank have been work.
ing ON the case and last evening
they obtained from the boy COM
pletc confession. The lad not only
confessed. birt promised To make
full restitution He made restitu.
ton ct once, in part, by surrender.
ing revolver. an electric lantern
aud other articles of like nature
dat he had been buying with the
money obtained through his forg-
cries.
Albert Spencer Is bright lad OF
fourteen. Ills cleverpess at the
forreries shows that he has an ex-
cellent chance To make good" II
lie will only conduct himself honest.
ly. as he promises to do. Friends
have take an interest In the case,
end an arrangement has been made
hat the boy shall report periodically
to them. He is q student at the
Pleasant Grove school
Paid Over the Money.
This morning the boy brought 81
to Chief of Police Klugherz, who
immediately took II to the dentist.
ly which the difficulty over the 81
check was Strengthened out. The
Doy earneo this money, It seems.
ly selling popcorn. with which he
frequently meets the passengers on
incoming trains. He appears TO
have no little business ability, but
:.lso POSSESSES a romantic, excite.
lnent-loving nature. While he was
getting money through forgeries he
vas spending II largely en- the
shows, especially on moving picture
exhibitions. to which he took his
boy friends, He also treated them
ut restaurants,
The boys mother supports the
household by dressrlaking. His
father disappeared some time ago.
Bad Boys. at Fsirmont.
Fairmont has been having n series
of trifiing burglaries committed there.
and Sheriff Carver has at last found
who the thieves are. The sheriff
was working on the matter for some
time, when at last his suspicion was
aroused over the conduct of several
boys who are very young for such
work. After some Questioning tine
boys confessed to the thefts. There
are five boys ranging I'm age from
fourteen to seventeen years of age.
some OF whom come of highly re.
spected homes in the city. Two of
the boys are said to have decided
criminal tendencies and are believed
! TO be responsible for the robberies.
No arrests have been made and the
names Of the boys are bein withheld
because OF their families. II has
not been decided what punishment
will be given them.
From Saturdays Daiiv.
II seemed like n cold reception
, in more senses than one TO Murray
payne, fourteen year old boy
from San Antonio. Texas. when he
alighted at Mankato this morning at
1880 o'clock. He wore no overcoat
or vest. and had on knee trousers and
a light fel. hat. Shivering with the
wintfy blasts, he looked around for
his father, A. z. Pavne. who was
to meet him here. according to an
arrangement that had been made by
letter. No one was there TO bid the
10y welcome and he hurried over
TO the police station TO inquire for
bis father. There he was told that
his father had left for San Jose,
California. to see his mother, the
Toys grandmother who was Very
Ill and reported TO be dying.
The boy did not have enough
money to buy a ticket to take him
Jack to San Antonio, or there Is
little doubt that he would have left
on the next south-bound train. As
II was he wired to his mother In
z a.