The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-08-20
Authorities Here Are Making
Probe lhQ0 the Theft
IRON. Thursdays Daily.

| al the county jail 10 serve ten-uay
sentence for peddling without a IL
cense, indicate that they may be
held on q more serious charge.
Local authorities are convinced that
the silks that the two men were ped
ding have been stolen. IL appeared
possible today that at least one OF
these two would be charged with
stealing bolts OF silks at the G. Och
Ter general merchandise store at
| Wells.
| THE man who gave the name of
| Arthur Hall. but is also known as Rel
| liy." said Sheriff Anton Osten today,
confessed yesterday to Chief of Po-
lice Klugherz and to Deputy Sheriff
| Albert Nerdahl that he had stolen
| silks I'm q store at Wells
| Hall was seen by Free Press re-
porter ut the Jail today. II never
confessed u thing" said Hall. IL told
you my story yesterday" We were
told by the authorities to keep our
mouths shut. so we are num-" said
the other of the two. who had given
| the name of Clyde Penland.
Nearly all OF yesterday. the officials
kept busily questioning these two
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| ing and travelling with them. whom
| Hall claimed to be his wife. The
questioning of these three, one at n
time, finally resulted. II is reported by
the sheriff. i'm the tip being given that
silks were stolen by the men, or one
of them, at Wells. Then Sheriff Os-
ten called up Deputy Sheriff william
Payne at Wells and got the informa
tion that last Saturday night some
shop lifting had been done there.
Two Bolts Were Taken.
Mr. q. Oehler. who is an elderly
nan. stayed In the store last Satur
| day evening. while the rest went to
| supper Two men came in and ask
ed about some packages that II was
| thought had been left there. accord
! ing to their story. His attention was
! called by some one else to business
IN the back part of the store. and when
| he came back to the silk counter.
where the two had been. they were
gone Later. two bolts of silk were
missed. one back and the other red
Deputy Sheriff Payne stated today
over the. telephone that he would try
| to get Mr.. Oehler to come to Mankato
the two neddlers at the Mankato Jail
as one of the two rren he saw in the
store that evening. Miss Lydia Och.
Ter. his daughter. who is in charge
cf the silk counter. may also come
TO Narkstn. II is thought that she
could ideniifv the hollis OF silk that
we've stolen. II she should see them.
II is thought that the two men who
were in the Oehler store that night
were ut the Wells hotel. Information
has bee" Cbtainnd from the land'ord
y" the effect that two mon who looked
like thane two had sold sore silks
away below thnir appafent actual val
ne to another boarder at that place.
Have No Bolts.
| dlers that were placed under arrest
was a quantity Of silk pieces, but
there are no whole bolts. This Is i'm
the possession of the sheriff. There
/ are manv different kinds of silks, and
also satins. The silks are black, red
and many other colors. but they are
all small pieces.
Sheriff Fred 6. Miner. sheriff OF
Brookings county. South Dakota:
Frank Ellis Of the Ellis-Halls COM
RAW. merchants of Brookings. and u.
ID. Boyce, head Of the dry goods de-
partment OF that store. spent most Of
Yesterday. including the evening. in
| Mankato. trying to find out whether
these two peddiers had anything to do
with the recent burglary at that store.
when quite quantity Of silks was
stolen. Nothing OF any consequence
was discovered and they left on their
homeward trip late last evening.
Another FruitIess Visit.
| Equally fruitless was the visit of
Charles r. Gales. dry goods merchant
Of Redwood. who came to see wheth-
er any of the silks found in the DOS =
session of the peddlers could be iden =
| tilted as those that were taken In n
recent burglary Of his store. At that
time, he said. $1,000 worth of silks
| were stolen. He said the burglars
left i'm the store the case of battery
! for q hashlight. The battery was pur-
| chased on the day before the burg
larry from hardware store at Red
wood. but the clerk could not remem.
Der the purchaser we'll enough to give
anv kind cf description of him. Mr..
Gales had with hin SAMPLES of all
the silks that had been missed from
his store after the burglary. hut
nothing was discovered nv compa -irg
them with the pieces that the ped
dlers had.
Called Up Wells Parties.
II somebody does not come from
Wells very soon to see what can be
done in the way of ascertaining
whether the two peddlers who are
confined in the Blue Earth county
jail have anything to do with the re-
cent stealing OF silks there. Sheriff
Osten intends TO call UT the store
again where the robbery is alleged
to have occurred and ascertain what
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