The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-08-14
Young Man Held Up
And SIS Was Taken

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Word that a man was held up on
the st. Peter road not far from the
home OF Arthur Chapman, near the
Klondyke quarry. was received last
evening shortly after eleven o'clock
by telephone al the police station
by Night Sergeant Foley. It was a
woman who gave the report, but
she refused to tell who she was. or
who II was that had been robbed.
She said II was a young man, who
was driving in buggy with a
young woman. She stated that the
robber threatened the young man
with a revolver, and took from
him s35 and watch. She said
the young woman jumped from the
buggy and ran towards the main
part of the city along the road until
she met DR.. Louis 7. Dodds, who
was driving out there in an automo-
bile. The doctor took her in his
machine and started in the direction
of the supposed robbery. They met
the young man, driving back
towards the city. He stopped and
took the girl in his buggy and they
drove on together.
Doctor Told Story Also.
Not long after this message was
received, DR.. Dodds, drove to the
police station in his machine. He
told substantially the same story
as that which had been received
by telephone. The name Of the
girl, he said, was Bessie Smith. Linn
Thro. who was with the doctor,
when he met the young woman on
the road. was. also seen last night.
He stated that the young man was
Frank Exile. who is employed at
the Kron department store.
Mr.. Exile was seen by a Free
Press representative this morning
and was questioned about the affair.
He denied all knowledge of the
robbery, though he admitted that he
was out riding last evening with
young woman. He said that he
did not go as far as the robbery
is supposed to have occurred.
=. Thought Man Was Exile.
Mr.. Thro was seen again by a
Free Press man this morning. He
said the man in the buggy looked
very much like Mr.. Exile and he
thought 1t was he. Mr.. Thro said
he called out: Hello, Frank" but
got no answer from the man, who
called down curses on the head OF
the girl, commanding her to come
out of the automobile and get into
the buggy. This she did, and the
buggy was driven on towards the
main part of the city.
Mr.. Thro said that when the
woman met DR.. Dodds automobile,
she called for help saying that her
pal had been robbed. The doctor
asked whether the -paf' was a man
or a woman, and she said II was
man.
Chief Of Police Klugherz early
this morning began a careful fnvesti.
CATION into the matter
Conclusions Of the Chief.
Chief Klugherz today had a talk
with Miss Bessie Smith and with
Frank Exile. The chief was salts.
fed that the man who was held up
and robbed was no other than Frank
Exile. though the latter persisted in
his denial that he knew anything
whatever Of the matter. Miss Smith
said positively that he was the man.
She could not give any satisfactory
description of the man, but said he
was about middle size, weighing
perhaps 100 pounds. She said she
thought he wore a handkerchief over
his face. lrs 49,. '
Miss Smith makes her home at
the residence of Mrs. Fred Buck.
317 Franklin street. The police
think It was Mrs. Buck who called
up Sergeant Foley last night about
the matter. aet