The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-12-04
John Kachewris Was GotbIed
Early This Morning
MAKES VERY STRONG DENIAL
Valentine Goracke, Farmer, Is Com
pIainant Against the Young Man
Taken Into Custody

John Rachewris, the young Greek
who threw the sugar bowl that struck
Clare Crane In the Savoy restaurant
the other night is now in serious
trouble. lie has been locked up.
charged with stealing SIS from
another mans pocket Early this
morning, however. he made sweeping
denials to Chief of Police Klugherz.
Valentine Goracke, a farmer, To-
Gated near Madelia. complained at
the police station shortly before mid
night last night. that he had been
robbed In his room at the Com
mercial house. lie stated that he
suspected young Greek whom he
had met at the shOe.shining parlor
on South Front street near the po-
lice station lie had made arrange
ments to hire this young Greek to
help him In getting moved to a new
location near Wells.
Went To Bed Together.
The two went to bed together in
the room at the Commercial house.
Not long afterwards the young Greek
got up and made an excuse to go out
into the hall. He did not return and
then the farmer became suspicious.
lie searched his pockets and dis
covered that his money was gone.
Officers Thilgen and Bell set out
to find the young Greek. They ar
rested Kachewris on suspicion in a
room over the shoe-shining parlor.
Kachewris, ever since his discharge
from the restaurant, after the sugar
bowl affair, had been knocking
around here and there. He had been
allowed TO sleep in that room with
two Greek boys who occupied the
place. a.
Greek Made Denial.
Kachewris was identified by the
farmer and By several people at the
hotel. However, he denied this morn
ing that he wcsA TO the hotel at all.
He said the wrong man had been ar
rested. Chief Klugherz this morning
showed him a little bundle of money
in a handkerchief and asked him
whether that was his. He denied
that he knew anything about It.
The chief ridiculed the denial and
said the money was what the young
Greek had stolen at the Commercial
hotel. Ut had been found in the
pocket of n pair of trousers that
the young Greek had worn. These
trousers were i'm the room where
Kachewris had been in the habit OF
sleeping. The young Greek persisted
In his denial.
Steps were taken early this morn,
ing to get a warrant issued charging
Kachewris with grand larceny.
Finally Admitted Guilt.
Although the young Greek at frs,
made sweeping denials. he later saw
that he was cornered and admitted
his guilt 10 several persons. He
said he took the money from the
farmer because the latter was drunk
He said he intended to give the
money back TO the farmer II the
farmer asked him for it, Otherwise
he intended to keep Il. He stated
in the municipal court that he was
guilty and did not care for an ex
animation. Special Judge Plymat
held him to await the action of the
district court. Later in the day
County Attorney Schmitt had him
sign an information on which he
could plead guilty.
The young man had about him
some love letters that he had re
ceiyed from a young woman Of Man
kato. There was later a breach be
tween them. II seems that certain
members of the girls family OBJ
jected to his going with her. He
was asked whether he was the man
who recently frightened two women
on Byron street one night with Q
revolver, pressing the weapon up tc
the breast OF the younger one and
threatening to kiln her. He declared
that he had never frightened any
| girl with revolver.
Other Greeks accuse this yount
man of having taken IS from the
pocket OF a Greek boy not long ago
They say they obliged him to give
II back, threatening to thrash him.
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