The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-11-17
Faribault Stores
Have Better Luck
Auto Thieves Select Their Spells
But Fail To Remove
The Goods
THIEVES ARE NERVY
Automobile Number Proves To
Be That of a FairmOnt
Ford

Ford
That the Twin City police have
not yet rounded up all the get.
away-quick artists who have
been operating in clothing stores
in this section of the state is
shown by the fact that three
Faribault stores were burglar
lied last Saturday night and a
large quantity Of goods removed.
However, in this instance, the
thieves did not manage the dis
appearing stunt quite SO sue
cessfully as usual, for though
i they managed to fade away
themselves without leaving any
| information as to where they
might be found when wanted,
they failed to get their loot
packed into their car before they
were surprised at the task and
were forced to abandon it.
To Policeman Joe Coughlin of
| Faribault belongs the credit of
having stopped it all. He was
going through dark alley, in
that city, about $3.50 Sunday
morning, when he spied a dim
ly lighted auto. With a revol-
yer in one hand and a fash-light
in the other, he stepped up to
two men who were near by and
asked what they wanted and
why they we're there.
The strangers seemed to know
i in an instant that he was an
Irishman, and one of them be-
gan chatting in a friendly way
about the Knights of Columbus.
The patrolman was not inter-
ested in that order just at that
moment. What he demanded
was to know what they were do
ing around there.
| The men replied that they
were just waiting for DR.. F. U.
Davis. They said they had an
appointment with him. All were
going out hunting together. This
did not satisfy the patrolman.
He commanded them to get out
and to turn on their lights. They
obeyed. He took the number
of the car.
The auto had scarcely pulled
away, when the patrolman,
throwing his searchlight around
the alley, saw quite a stack OF
firearms. There were a score
of rifles, and quite a number of
revolvers, stacked up against a
lumber pile. Looking further,
/ he found five sacks Of furs.
The officer at once surmised
that stores had been broken in
| to and these goods stolen. 1t
was evident that the men with
the auto were in the act of load
ing the goods into the vehicle,
when he interrupted them.
The matter was reported to
the chief of police and he found
that the number of the auto was
that of a Ford owned at Fair
mont. The auto seen in the al
| ley was not Ford. The chief
| at once determined to 60 to Fair
mont and see what could be as
certained. Evidently the num-
Der tag had been stolen. The
chief Of police also surmised that
| the strangers may have been
| the fellows who burlarized the
Carlson fur store in Mankato
early one Sunday morning few
week ago, and he decided to COM
municate with the Mankato po-
lice and Sheriff Osten joined the
party going to Fairmont. How
ever, they made no discoveries
of any value. There seemed to
be no clue to the thieves that
were frightened away from Fari-
bault. 1t was found that the
number seen on the auto Of the
robbers was that Of Ford be-
longing to a farmer three miles
from Fairmont, but his number
tag had not been taken or dis
turbed. Evidently the thieves
had used another tag in inita-
ton of the real one.
There were four burglaries
Sunday night in Faribault. Three
of these are believed to have
! been the work of the much
wanted men. They were pulled
off in the Herbert F. Kester
women's apparel store, where
the furs were obtained; in the
Bloxam gun shop, whence the
weapons were taken and in the
Swartz candy factory, where
two cases Of candy were stolen.
All of the stolen goods were