The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-03-02

With John Schwartz also in the
county Jail at st. Cloud with Charles
Wiley, Charles Lawrence and How
ard Johnson, the local police and sher-
ifs force have completed their task of
rounding up the quartet of young men
who held up and robbed Benjamin E.
Halboth of Akeley in this city recent
ly.
Schwartz was arrested last Satur-
day afternoon in the Nicollet hotel,
Minneapolis, by Sheriff Schooner. The
young man had been decoyed into the
officers hands by Percy Marshall of
this city who was acquainted with
Schwartz and who was sent to Min
neapolis by Chief of Police Fish to
assist the sheriff. 1t was largely
through the efforts of Chief Fish that
Wiley and Schwartz were located af
ter they hurriedly left this city.
According to the county officials
Schwartz and Wiley have both made
clean breasts of the robbery and have
announced their intention of pleading
guilty before Judge Roeser and begin
serving their sentences. Schwartz and
Wiley tell the same story; that they
: Participated in the-,rohbery and that
Lawrence and Jahnsen shared in the
spoils. The latter two are in the
county Jail awaiting trial at the May
term of court, Their bond has been
fixed at 1000 each, which neither is
able to furnish.
According to the St. Cloud papers
Schwartz at first refused to talk of
the robbery but finally broke down
and told everything. He stated that
he did not care to go to the Reforma-
tory. He was in pessimistic mood
and thought that he was through and
would surely not be given another
chance. County Attorney Ahles as
sured him that he would be given
every opportunity at the Reformatory
to redeem himself and when released
would have plenty chances to make
good.
Officials and newspapers are not so
kind to Wiley, however. The st.
Cloud Times leads off with this COM
ment:
"Chas. Hughes, alias Matt Hughes,
alias Wiley, has demonstrated to the
county officials that he is somewhat
of a prevaricator, though he has ad-
mitted all of the essential facts in COM
nection with the Sank Centre hold-up.
Hughes waived preliminary hearing
yesterday afternoon and was bound
over to the grand jury. It is expected
that he will plead guilty before the
court. Hughes while at Portage was
mixed up in the robbery of boxcar
and could be prosecuted by author
tiles there. He was hanging around
with hobos in Wisconsin and his sto-
ries of his work there do not hold to-
gether in many particulars. Hughes
is decidedly "mouthy" in the county
jail"
Then the Times follows up with
the following burning roast:
civilian Wiley will have it dis
tinctly understood that he is not a
Willie of the Lord Fauntleroy type.
Nope, most emphatically he's not in
that class at all. His lamentable lack
of true courtesy this morning while
he was being interviewed revealed the
presence of a vocabulary that would
not have passed by the National
Board of Censorship nor would it be
found in any dictionary given public
circulation except perhaps in very
small type and much differently ar
ranged. On the contrary, Wiley uses
his tongue for purposes that would
have called for the soap-and-water
cure in school days. He absolutely
refused to say zx?* (*)?! thing to a
zxz?*! newspaper man.
cts not only his rudeness that
makes Wiley an inappropriate name
for the Sank Centre robber, but it's
his aptitude for romance. No deserv-
ing applicant for that cognomen could
ever twist, squirm or wriggle from
one improbable story to another with
the aplomb which our rude robber
displayed this morning when being
questioned by Sheriff B. E. Schooner.
One good romance was not sufficient
] for the Sank Centre man; a, volume