New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-11-24
BURGLARY! EVERY
B0DY'S DOING IT!
EVEN THE INSANE At ST. PETER
u ARE BREAKING OUT AND
BREAKING IN AGAIN.
FANSKA STORE OUTFITS THIS
BURGLAR WHO CLAIMS HE'S
WARDEN WOLFER.

of Erickson Bros. of Hanska entered their
store Saturday morning, he Immediately
saw evidences of it's having been entered
and burglarized during the previous
night. One of the windows was smashed
in and it could be seen that the stock
OF merchandise had been tempered with
altho it was impossible to state just what
had been stolen. As soon as the burglary
had been detected, the neighboring
communities were communicated with
and from La Sale it was learned that
stranger had been seen that morning on
the streets dressed in brand new clothes
and that he had taken passage to Sher-
burn.
The police authorities of Sherburn
were notified and it did not take the
village marshall H. H. Lee long to spot
the guilty party who was leisurely walk
ing around town and take him into
custody. He was escorted to the village
lookup where an inventory was made of
the stuff that the fellow had actually
carried off. He was certainly bent on
Quitting himself completely, because
there wasn't an article of mems wearing
apparel or mems furnishing goods that
had escaped his attention. He had
taken couple of pairs of trousers,
brown wooden shirt, underwear, a cap,
a mackinaw, sheep-lined overcoat,
pair of shoes and overshoes. He also
provided himself with a comb, box of
shoe polish, pair Of gloves and pair
Of shears. The purloined stuff was worth
about $4,000. He had also tapped the
till and took from it about IS cents in
change which he afterwards expended
for railroad fare to Sherburn.
Sheriff julius was Immediately notified
and left for Sherburn Sunday afternoon
and returned with the prisoner Monday
noon on the M. & St. L. As soon as the
Sheriff was his prisoner he told the
Jackson people that they had captured
lunatic and it developed later that the
Sheriff's judgment was very good The
burglar was none other than A. johnson
who had escaped from the criminal ward
for the Insane at St. Peter Wednesday
evening between five and six o'clock.
County Attorney Frederickson who had
been notified of the burglars capture and
had come to New Ulm to prosecute the
case, was also convinced after some con-
versation with the prisoner that he was
irresponsible and the St. Peter authori-
ties were notified, who stated that the
description given them by the local
authorities, Tailed with the description
of the man that had effected his escape
Wednesday and they sent one of their
attendants here to take johnson back to
St. Peter Tuesday.
Johnson was originally committed to
the State prison at Saltwater from Swift
County in 1901 for burglary in the first
degree and was transferred to Che crimi-
nal ward for the Insane at St. Peter in
1913. He claimed to the authorities
here that he had been cured and that he
is now free man and that he is entitled
to his liberty. In the next breath he
told them his name was Henry Wolfer
and that he owned big Irvine factory in
Saltwater and that the people liked a
man by the name of Reed better and
that they had taken his Irvine factory
away from him and discharged him.