The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-08-21

From Mondays Daily.

Sheriff 0sten and Deputy Nerdahl
yesterday again visited the farm of
Michael Tweit. uncle of Mamie Shan
ahan, the young woman who disap-
peared from the Tweit home. on or
about July 81. The sheriff told Mr..
Tweit of some new Information he
had received. that might throw light
on the mystery. He said that he had
had a talk with a hack driver OF
Mankato, who remembered that one
night, about the time when the girl
disappeared, a man and a girl were
driven by him In a hack from Man.
kato to Minneopa. The hack driver
said that as he remembered the girl,
she answered somewhat to the de-
scription Of the missing Mamie
Shanahan. The girl was taken to
the Mlnneopa depot and Il seemed
that the purpose was TO have her
take the midnight train there for the
west. When the girl got out of the
hack. the driver remembered, she
called out to the man, BE sure and
make that train"
Man Came to Mankato.
The man had told the hack driver
he would take the train In Man
kato, but the girl was to take the
train at Minneopa. Leaving the girl
driver take him back to Mankato.
The hack driver did not know
whether the man left Mankato on a
train or otherwise, after leaving him
that night. The hack driver gave the
sheriff a description Of the man.
The sheriff was also informed by
the hack driver of a girl OF lie Sueur,
who was in Mankato recently and
who one night, thought by her to be
Tuesday, July %. saw a couple in
Mankato who may have been the
same couple that the hack driver took
to Minneopa. The girl from lie Sueur
said, according to the hack driver,
that the girl she saw with the man
answered the description the papers
gave. of the missing girl.
The sheriff put all this information
up to Michael Tweit yesterday and
asked him whether that might not
mean that the girl was none other
than Mamie Shanahan. Mr.. Tweit
said II could not be so. He said he
had been at home every night and
he had sat up every night until
twelve o'clock reading. He declared
II was impossible for anyone to have
taken the girl away from the farm
and he not know about II.
Bank Certificates Missing.
| The sheriff asked Mr.. Tweit IL he
had found out whether the girl had
taken any money with her or not,
aud he said she had. as there we're
two Of her bank deposit certificates
missing. One OF these was on a
Mankato bank in the sum OF $500.
The other. he thought. was for 500
on a Minnesota Lake bank. He was
not sure but she had taken three.
He had some recollection of a $500
certificate that he had not been able
TO find.
The girl had quite a number of
certificates OF deposit in different
southern Minnesota banks. There
were certificates for 1914. s47S.45.
s1S7.2O. $923.5S, s112,35. s32. $3.50
and ss2. Among her papers was also
a note given In her favor by one
Anna Veg In the sim Of $40. These
papers we're kept by her in a paper
box In a trunk in her room.
Sheriff 0sten asked Mr.. Tweit
urhathar ha Ipau onything about the
girl being pregnant at the time or
her disappearance and he said he
knew OF no such thing. Tweit made
denial OF a statement made about
him by Jorgenson to a Mankato
newspaper man. Tweit said II was
ian awful lie"
The sheriff asked Mr.. Tweit wheth-
er he could get a later picture Of the
missing girl than the one that had
been published. as that was about
six years old. and he had been in
formed that Il no longer looked like
the girl. Mr.. Tweit said n OF the
neighbors had a more recent picture
of the girl, taken with a group. He
said he would try to get this pic
ture and see whether a picture OF
the girl could be obtained from It.
The sheriff said last night that he
intended to take the hack driver out
to the place where he understood
the man who is suspected OF having
been with the girl on the trip to
| Minneopa, Is nov employed and have
him look the farm hand over. The
sheriff wants to satisfy himself
whether the girl was Mamie Shana.
han.
II has developed that Tweit has
relatives in North and South Dakota
points. II may be that the missing
girl is visiting at the home Of n Of
these relatives.
When questioned about these rel
~atives. Tweit at first denied that he
had any such living In either North
or South Dakota. Later a picture
was discovered among some OF the
missing girls effects. When ques-
toned as to who Il could be. Tweit
replied that II was a photograph Of
his cousin who lived in one OF the
Dakotas.
During the conversation that took
| place yesterday between Tweit. the
sheriff. HIS deputy and Esther Rosko.