The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-08-14
and no clue has ever found concern
ing her disappearance.
Forger Is Believed
Caught By Police
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
What appears to be a splendid
catch of a check swindler was
made by the police late this after.
noon. The credit of the catch Is
due to G.. o. Hoerr, assistant cashier
of the National Bank of Commerce.
A man came into the bank stating
that he was Stanley Wesh from
Fort Dodge, Iowa. He wanted
ss1.45, which. he said, he had had
on deposit in the First National
bank of Fort Dodge. A few days
before, he had handed over to w.
@. p. Smith at whose restaurant he
boarded, a check for that amount
In favor of Stanley wesh, supposed
to be signed by George A. Rich,
as cashier of the First National
bank at Fort Dodge. Mr.. Smith
turned the check over to the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce for col
lection. The bank sent the check
on to the Fort Dodge bank to see
IL IL was good. This afternoon Wesh
went to the National Bank of Com
merce and asked for the money.
Exhibited a Letter.
To convince the assistant cashier
he showed letter, signed with the
name or Geo. A. Rich, as cashier
of the Fort Dodge bank. telling OF
the check and the account of Wesh
at that bank. Mr.. Hoerr knew
that the right name of the cashier
of that bank was f. l.. West. This
made him suspicious. He detained
the man I'm the bank and managed
to get word to the police. Patrol
man Thilgen came over and ar
rested the man.
Cashier Henlein OF the German
American State bank was called
came to the station and identified
the prisoner as the man who a
few days ago tried to pass a bogus
check ,'on that bank for s2,350. AT
that time he called himself Nelson.
A full account of this matter was
given at the time in the Free Press.
wesh has room over the music
store near the police station. He
has a typewriter there. The letter
he presented at the bank was type
written. II is thought by Mr.. Hoerr
that Wesh himself wrote the letter.
wesh said he had been working
at the cement works.
On inquiry a clerk at the office of the
cement works stated that the rec
ords showed no such name as Wesh
among the employees.
Will BE Given Hearing.
wesh was brought before Judge
Comstock I'm police court this after.
noon and charged with uttering a
forged check. His case was con-
tinued to next Tuesday morning at
ten o'clock.
wesh at first denied that he was
the man who tried TO pass the bad
check at the German American bank.
After Cashier Henlien had identified
him he said he just went down there
to see whether that check was good
In wesh's room the police found
n great deal to arouse suspicion
There were different kinds Of inks
and different colors OF typewriter RIB
bon. There were also stamping outfits.
There were also stamping outfits.
The place seemed fitted up in/very
convenient style for a man who in
tended to work a swindling game
with commercial paper.
The prisoner admitted to a Free
Press man that he wrote the checks
ard knew when he wrote them
they were not good.
From saturdays Daily.
II Albert Johnson, 313 North Front
street, carpenter in the employ of the
J. B. Nielsen Construction company
and his sixteen year old son, Alvin,
assistant pressman in the Office OF
the Free Press. had not been fishing
from the bank Of the Minnesota river
last evening, 1t is doubtful whether
the body of Martin Kittleson, who
was drowned I'm this river last Thurs.
day afternoon, would ever have been
found.
The Johnsons were standing on
the city side OF the river about
a mile down. from the Main
street bridge, and had just be
gun to fish, about eight o'clock last
evening when the boy noticed the
top of human head projecting above
the surface OF the water out in mid
stream. carried down by the current
He called the attention Of his father
TO what he saw. Both instantly sur
missed that what they saw was the
body of the drowned boy.
Sought Shallow Place.
Alvin at once hurried back to q
place where the father had left his
coat and watch and got them, while
the father climbed out on tree to
get better view Of the object. Then
both hurried downstream. looking for
chance 10 get hold of the body. On
the way down they met an elderly
man by the name OF Kroeger, who
told them of a shallow place near JEFF.
ferson's bend, where the body would
probably be lodged. So they ran on.
stopping for moment at house,
where they told what they had seen.
After they had followed the BODY