The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-04-23
Wood Lake Man Is
Charged With Taking
from Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
II was n queer caper. That much
| Is certain. ]. w. Manecke who runs
a saloon and restaurant at Wood
Lake. Mimi, performed little stunt
Yesterday afternoon that became the
! talk OF the town. He took +, w.
| Hunts six cylinder Buick automobile
out OF the Clements garage and
claimed that he had bought IL. He
| Is business man OF no small ac-
uuaintance I'm Mankato. What he
really intended TO do was a question
that was topic OF gossip and debate
up and down Front street all last
evening. ID seemed TO be the gen
orally accepted belief that Mr.. Man
ecke. being a big man In his own
town. and one who was generally un-
derstood as fellow who would
square things up all right. thought
Mankato folks would understand him
Just as well. and let him transact af-
fairs after the manner of his own
humor. But he landed at the police
station.
Il cannot believe that he intended
anything dishonest" said Braden
Clements, proprietor of the garage,
last evening Perhaps he had his
mind fully made up To bny the auto
and pay fov II. Or perhaps he fan
Fled he had bought IT, But 7 am glad
headed him of when ! did. The
supply OF those six-cylinder Buick
automobiles is very limited. II he
had gotten ont of town with that
machine. we had nothing that could
have caught him.
Said He Bought Auto.
"He came into the garage yester-
day afternoon and told our foreman,
Ernest Jones. that he had bought
the automobile and had come TO get
II. Mr.. Jones would not let him
have il before seeing me. So Mr..
Jones got into the machine and ran
down on Front street to tell me
about II. He found me soon and |
went up to the Free Press office TO
see Mr.. Hunt and ask him about IT,
! found that the auto had not been
sold.
MIR. Jones took the machine back
TO the garage. Not long afterwards.
Mr.. Manecke came again. and said
he had bought the machine. Mr..
Jones set out TO find me again. Aft
er he had gone. the visitor got into
the automobile and proceeded to take
IL outside. Our man. George Schaus,
told him not to do this. but the other
cried out, You get TO HI out OF
here and out went the automobile
through the door. banging into both
sides of the doorway and badly
bending the fender. What other
damage may have been done | do not
know.
Hunted For Stranger.
ION learning what had happened.
| Immediately took an auto to find
the queer stranger, and | sent Mr..
Jones with another on the SAME err
rand. In the mean time, Mr.. Man
ecke had gone down to Front street
and down Front TO Esser's saloon,
where he had left a hat and coat
These he obtained and came back
down Front. He was just nearing Main
street. when | ran I'm front of a street
car. which was coming in the same
direction he was. and | headed him
of. stopping my automobile I'm front
of him. He stopped the machine he
was running.
Il got out and went over to him
and said. My name Is Clements. |
am proprietor of the garage over
there. What is your name? He re-
Piled that his name was Manecke.
What are You going To do with that
carr" ! asked. That, car is mine he
answered. I paid the Pence Auto
company, the Buick distributors.
Sl.7o0 for that car Well | said.
that car does not belong to the Pence
Auto company and II does not belong
to me. II belongs to +. W. Hunt and
you do not take the cars of any GUS
toner OF mine. until I find out
about IL.
Was Quite Wrathy.
Let us go and telephone about It.
Telephone nothing he cried. Get
to HI out of here He started
up the engine and would have steer
ed the car past my auto. but quick
ly jumped up and killed the engine.
and put on the brake. Then he9
struck at me several times. I dodg-
ed his blows as well as I could. He
Is big fellow. weighing about $50
pounds.
AT this moment Traffic Officer
r. V. Waters came along and told
the man in the auto that he was un-
der arrest. At first Manecke resist
ed. but he soon gave up and the Of
ficer led him by the arm TO the police
station. Later we called up the
Pence people at Minneapolis and |
were told that Mr.. Manecke had paid
nothing to them on a Buick"
Manecke was locked I'm cell for :
a short time early in the evening and
was then brought before Judge w. A. !
Plymat OF the municipal court and !
charged with assault and battrey. He
pleaded not guilty and the case was ,
continued TO eleven o'clock this morn 1
ing. The Judge required bond I'm the !
sum OF $500. This was readily fur !
nished. Charles Zimmerman sianing
the bond I
Fsced Two Charges.
j. w. Manecke was I'm the munich
pal court this morning to answer to .
two charges. One was the charge of
assault and battery. preferred on the
complaint OF Braden Clements. with
whom Mr.. Manecke had The adven-
ture at Front and Main streets. The
other was a charge OF unauthorizedl
ly taking from a garage an automo-
bile. This was on the COMPLAINT of
r. w. Hunt, OWNER of the autornohila