The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-07-31

and Bienapf went out to the place
70 get the "wiilies," but by the time
they reached there. the crowd was
gone. A freight train had come along
and all boarded that and were hauled
out Of the city.
Run Away From Coat shcyeilng.
Three hdboes that obtained d free
lodging at the police station iasi
night were hired this morning By the
Botsford Lumber company TO shovel
coal out OF cars into the bins. Three
had shoyeied out about ave hundred
pounds. when. seeing that the fore
mans back was turned, they. drop
ped their shovels and fed, not even
having the courage to ask for pay
for what they dfd. Such are the
pitiabie American citizens who &c
from town to town. begging. and
saying they can find no work.
Many Hoboes on Trains.
One OF the freight trains that left
Mankato last evening over the North
western was fairly loaded with no
boes. The conductor OF North.
western freight train arriving in
Mankato today from watertown
stated that when that train pulled
into WATERFOWL yesterday II had
about two hundred hoboes on board
The train crew did not care to
tackle so many. but Just let them
ride until they got on voluntarily.
Tfamps Worked Well.
All the tramps worked well,
throughout the morning. and none
made any attempt to get away. At
noon they were marched to the jail
for dinner, and later in the day
were marched back TO the working
ground for further iabors.
From Saturdays Daily.
John Kelly, who has been for some
time sojourning at the quarters Of
the Salvation Army, cutting grass
and doing other odd jobs around
town, was brought to the police
station this morning to tell what he
knew about the stealing OF two dol
lars from young woman's hand
bag at the Milwaukee station. Kel-
ly denied that he had anything to do
with the theft but he handed the
young woman two dollars. There
was no prosecution.
The young woman is Miss Florence
Thompson OF Austin, who. has been
attending the summer school at the
normal This morning she came
down to the depot with her grips
TO take the early train for Austin.
Finding that she had missed the
train, she left the grips in the depot
and decided to take the afternoon
train.
~ Kelly Picked up Bag.
Later in the morning. she came
to get something out of one Of the
grips. She happened to leave her
handbag in one OF the seats. while
she left the waiting room for a
time. While she was gone, Kelly,
who had come to the depot to go to
Kasota to do some work there. pick
ed up the handbag and showed Il
to the baggage-man, John c. Born.
Mr.. Born told Kelly to let the bag
lay where it was. II was not lost
and the lady who owned 1t would
come and get 1t.
After few moments Miss Thomp-
SON came back. She looked into the
handbag to get her purse. which,
she said, contained two dollars in
silver. The purse was gone and so
was the money. She notified the
station agent and the police were
informed. A search was at once
made for Kelly, who was found
some time afterwards &c the North
western depot. He was brought to
the station. He did not have the
two silver dollars with him. but had
a paper dollar and some odd change.
He had been at a store buying 1T
tie candy.
Buyer Talks With Kelly.
Captain b. Buyer was called and
had private conference with Kelly.
Kelly declared that he was inno-
cent. but said he was willing to pay
two dollars to the young woman to
settle up the trouble. This was
done. The captain loaned Kelly one
dollar to enable him. to do this.
Miss Thompson declared that the
two dollars was all the money she
had Tor her ticket Before she re-
covered the money, she tried to get
her parents at Austin by telephone to
buy her ticket. but did not manage
TO communicate with them. -
Captain Buyer told Kelly this
would be a good lesson for him not
to pick up property that did not
belong to him IN depots or elsewhere.
for, by so doing. he was likely to
draw suspicion on himself.
The captain said Kelly had always
been honest. as far as he knew.
from Saturdays Dam.
Celebrating sixtieth Wedding Anfii-
versary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Kohler OF
21s North Fifth street are today
celebrating the sixtleth anniversary
Of their marriage. All Of their chill
dfen except one daughter. are here
for the occasion and family gath
ering is being held at the home