The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-10-02
CLEWS IN PHOTO
HUBLER IS ALIVE
From Fridays Daily.

ing proof that this young man from
Pinckneyville, Ill, was not drowned
in the Minnesota river at Mankato.
although clothes containing letters ad-
dressed to him were found on the
bank.
Last evening The Free Press pub
lished a picture of the missing young
man. This was seen by Mrs. Charles
Peterson, who runs the ST. Paul
house. Mrs Peterson remembered at
once that the young man had been
at the st. Paul house on Sunday.
September 20. The clothes and let.
tiers were first noticed on the river
bank on Tuesday afternoon, Septem-
Der Is.
According to Mrs. Peterson's story,
George A. Huber first came to the
St. Paul house on the evening OF
Monday, September IA. He had come
from Sleepy Eye. He came to the
hotel in the company OF another
young man by the name OF James
Darling, who had also come from
Sleepy Eye.
Darling Obtained Room.
Darling had come to that hotel
and obtained a room in the after
noon of that same day. He had with
him a suitcase. He said he was going
TO work at the Hubbard mill but
had no money with which to pay for
his board. He said. however, that he
had a suitcase. with some very good
clothes in II and he would leave this
at the hotel as a pledge for what he
owed. Mrs Peterson consented to
this arrangement.
Darling and Huber remained at
the hotel that night and arose and
went away late the next morning,
Tuesday. September Is. Mrs. Peter
son went TO the room they had &C.
cupied, took the suitcase and placed
Il in another room, as she did not
wish to have either OF them leave
without some security for what he
owed.
Would Not Give Up Grip.
Darling came back and took din
ner at the hotel. Huber came early
in the afternoon, and in Darling's
presence, he asked for the suitcase.
Mrs. Peterson said he could not have
IL until his own bill and that Of Darl-
ing's were paid. She said Darling had
left the suitcase as a pledge for
what he owed.
Huber declared that the suitcase
was his, so the landlady stated to
The Free Press. Mrs. Peterson asked
Darling what he meant by leaving
the suitcase as a pledge for his bill
when he did not own Ii. Darling
said he had not told her that he did
own 1t. He had just left II as a
pledge. that was all. Darling left
the hotel soon afterwards and was
said 10 have left town.
Huber that same afternoon re-
quested Mrs. Peterson TO let him
get some clothes out of the suitcase.
and she granted the request. She
tells that Huber said the suitcase
had been taken from his room at
Sleepy Eye Darling had gone to
the place. he said. and gotten the
people in charge 10 let him have the
suitcase. Then Darling had taken
the train to Mankato. Huber said he
wished to have him arrested at
Sleepy Eye on the charge of steal
ing the suitcase, but as Darling was
gone. that was impossible.
Met Darling On Street.
Huber further told Mrs. Peterson
that he found Darling on the street
in Mankato On that same night, Mon
day. September IA. AT that time, he
said, Darling had on a nice new
pair of pants that belonged to Hub
Ter. He had taken them from the
suitcase. Huber also said he had
a nice blanket strapped to the side
of the suitcase. He did not know
what Darling had done with that.
He said that after he met Darling,
the two came together to the st.
Paul house. There they slept that
night together in the same room.
Huber told Mrs. Peterson that he
would leave the suitcase with her
as a pledge for his own and Darling's
bill Then he went away and she did
not see him again until Sunday,
September 20. He said he had been
at Tracy and was going back there.
He had some money now, and paid
Darling's bill of seventy-five cents
and his own of forty cents. Huber
said he was going back to Tracy. He
had a job, he said. on farm about
two miles from Tracy at s1.75 a
day. Then he took the suitcase and
left and Mrs. Peterson has not seen
his since.
is the Same Man.
That this George A. Huber Is
the same man, whose letters were
found on the river bank, is further
indicated by the fact that he told
Mrs. Peterson that he had come from
Illinois.
Mrs. Peterson is inclined to be-
lieve that when Darling came to
Mankato on Monday, September IA,
with Hubler's suitcase. Darling went
down TO the river bank and changed
clothes there Perhaps he was afraid
10 be found with an of those letters,
addressed to George A. Huber. 1t
may be that he left them with the
old clothes on the river bank, Just
TO get rid of them. II will be remem-
bered that the clothes and letters
were found ON the bank the very
next day, September IL. Huber was
in Mankato at the hotel on the goth.
So Il Is certainly clear that the find
ing of the clothes on the bank did
not mean that Huber was drowned.
The clothes were old and dirty. Prob
ably they were not Hubler's clothes
at all, but the ones that Darling dis
carded. Mrs. Peterson says Huber
was a very neatlooking young man,
and had a good appearance in every
way.