New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-09-29
PICKP0CKETS BUSY
AT SUNDAY PICNIC.
ACCUSED OF TAKING MONEY
FROM VISITORS AT voLKs-
FEST.
FORMER ACQUAINTANCE MAKES
FREE WITH CAPT. JUMPS
PROPERTY.

Some of the light fingered gentry
piled their nefarious trade at Hermann's
Heights Sunday. During the early part
Of the afternoon William c. Bonn re-
ported to the special police on duty at
the picnic grounds that $4,000 had been
picked from his pockets and later on
Charley Kral came with the doleful
tidings that he had in some mysterious
manner lost $17.00 and some loose
change. Albert Ring also reported that
he missed $4.35 of his hard earned
money.
Chief Klause was notified and he got
on the job at once. He spotted one
heavy-set fellow and two smaller fellows
who looked suspicious to him, took them
into custody and escorted them to the
police station where they were thoroly
searched. One Of the suspects gave his
name as Victor A. Hanson, another as
Louis Harris and the third as H. B.
Davenport. All claimed to hail from
St. Paul.
From the pockets of Hanson the Chief
extracted $45.OO and later on unearthed
a $4,000 bill from one Of his shoes.
Harris disgorged in the neighborhood Of
$185.00. Eighty-five dollars of this
amount was found in the pockets and
$100 had been tucked away in an inside
pocket in the waist belt of his trousers.
The third man had only $3.50 on his
person.
Chief Klause called up the Police De-
partment at St. Paul and asked for in
formation about the men, but they were
not known to the police under the names
given here. To make sure that he had
arrested some crooks kiause mare q 81
them over to Goodies photograph gallery
and had front and side views of them
taken.
There was no question in the mind Of
Chief Klause that he had in custody the
fellows that had stolen the money at
Hermann's Heights but no one had seen
them take the money and the stolen
money was not marked in any way so
that it could be identified. From the
proof in the hands OF the Chief, he could
not even make out strong enough case
to warrant their being bound over to
await the action Of the grand jury. The
only thing that Klause felt that he could
do under the circumstances was to hold
out enough money to cover the losses
that were reported to him and let the
culprits go. He retained $48.0O and
about noon Monday chased the men out
of town. They admitted to Klause that
there we're four more in their gang, but
this did not go to show that they were
guilty Of relieving any of the people here
of their money.
The robbed ones, no doubt, were sur
prised to get their money which was sent
to them yesterday. 1t is safe bet that
practically all of the swag carried by the
three was taken from the picknickers and
that the four other members of the gang
had not been overlooking anybody
either.
A fellow who gave his name as Harold
Crippen drew five days jail sentence
in Justice Buschers Court Saturday.
1t seems that Crippen who is chance
acquaintance of Capt. Edwin Juni
drifted into town Thursday of last week
and remembered that he had at one
time met Mr.. Juni. He called at the
house and was told that Capt. Juni was
not at home.
He called again the next day and found
Ed. at home and talked with him for
some time in his room. At the time a
20 calibre revolver belonging to the
Machine Gun Co. was lying on the
table. The next day the fellow showed
up again and told Mr.. Ben Juni that he
had forgotten his revolver and asked
him for permission to go upstairs and
get it. Mr.. Juni demonstrated slightly
but as he is mild-mannered man, he
did not prevent Crippen from going to
Capt. Juni's room.
When the Captain came home he was
told what had happened and he i'm
mediately investigated and found that
in addition to the revolver, Crippen had
also taken flash light. He was found
shortly afterwards in soused condition
and the property was recovered. Crippen
claimed that his life had been threatened
and gave this as his excuse for getting
too familiar with other peoples property.
He had no money wherewith to pay the
fine Justice Buschgs imposed and went
| to jail.