New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-04-14
Clothing: Store
Is Burglarized
NEW ULM SEEMS TO BE FULL OF
LONG FINGERED GENTRY
LATELY.
TWO OTHER GET RICH QUICK
ARTISTS TRY THEIR LUCK
HERE.


payable to his own order, Frank j. Mann
was taken into custody at the Brown
County Bank Saturday afternoon be-
tween two and three o'clock by Chief
of Police Klause. Mann is charged
with embezzling property belonging to
his former employees, Goldstein &
Eppstein of Chicago. His former en-
.ployees We're communicated with and
they directed that he be held and Chief
Klause took him to the County jail.
Goldstein & Eppstein are "a diamond
importing company and they have been
putting out the so-called punch boards"
all over the country. Mann was in
their employ, but was discharged by
them April 4th for not making the daily
reports required of agents. Instead
of getting new job, Mann turned
around and started in collecting money
at all places where he had installed the
punch boards, starting in at Winona
and working this way. He kept his
former employers in the dark as to his
movements by writing them to forward
his mail to Willmar and later on to Tracy
He had been at neither place and had
no intention of going there.
On the morning of the day that he
was arrested he called at Pfefferle's
drug store and packed up all the unsold
.jewelry and punch boards and settled
up with Mr.. Pfefferle. A couple Of
hours later Mr.. Pfeferle got a letter
from Goldstein & Eppstein warning him
* against their former agent and re-
questing him to have no dealings with
him. Mr.. Pfeferle Immediately COM
municated with Chief Klause and the
Chief at once made search for the
man, but could not find him. Later
while talking with Mr. Pfefferle he was
told that the man had entered the
Brown County Bank and he Immediately
under arrest.
1t is not definitely known how much
property Mann had embezzeled but it
is believed to exceed $780, He kept
no record of any collections and practi-
:cally admitted that he had been making
settlements with different people and
that he had in some instances sent the
.jewelry in his own name to Minneapolis,
that he had at some time later sold the
jewelry, and kept the money he received
and that he had also sent checks to
Chicago payable to his order He
claims, however, that he had never
received the letter from his former
employers discharging him.
j. B. Dreschler, Of Chicago, represent
tative Of Goldstein & Eppstein, arrived
here Sunday and since then negotiations
have been pending to settle up this
mess without preferring charges against
Mann.
The Columbia Clothing Co.'S. clothing
store was burglarized Friday night and
property valued at between two and
three hundred dollars was carried away.
The employees of the company when
they arrived at the store in the morning,
found the front and also the rear door
locked as usual but when they got inside
they noticed in the rear of the clothing
racks quite a number of coat hangers
and also some paper which had not been
there the night before. This aroused
their suspicious and they Immediately
commenced an examination of the place
and found that ten suits of the $40 to |
$50 variety had disappeared and also
two suit cases, one valued at $4.75 and
the other at $5.25 and that cash to the
amount of about $500 had been taken.
This is all that they are absolutely sure
has been stolen. Shirts, stockings, hats,
ties and other gents furnishings good
may have been taken also, but they
have no means of knowing.
Mr.. Meme is of the opinion that the
thieves gained entrance thru the front
door, packed up all the suits in the suit
cases and made their way out thru the
front door and locked the place after
them. There are no clues of any kind
and it is hard for the police to decide
whether it was done by home talent or
whether it was done by crooks from the
s!big cities who are swarming over the
country.
Sheriff Osten of Mankato called up
the sheriff's Office here and told them
that travelling man had seen two or
three hoboes with new grips at the !,
New Ulm depot Saturday morning at