New Ulm review., 1920-09-29
COMFREY ROBBER
SUSPECT NABBED
ONE OF BANDITS WHO LOOTED
? MOUNTAIN LAKE STORE
is IDENTIFIED. ......
DOWN OF STOLEN
CAR LEADS TO ARREST
OF THREE MEN.


The breaking down of stolen Ford
sedan, in which they had attempted to
haul their loot to the Twin Cities, lead
to the arrest of three men who are
strongly suspected of robbing the store
OF Schroeder & Hiebert at Mountain
Lake Of about $4,000 worth of mems
wearing apparel early last Wednesday
morning, and, incidentally, this FORUM
ate accident may result in the appre-
hension of the bandits who looted the
general store of Erickson & Trautman
at Comfrey of between $4,000 and
$4,000 worth of similar merchandise
during the night of September 2.
Identify One Suspect.
Following the arrest of the three
suspects at Jordan, Thursday, Sheriff
W. J. Julius and Deputy Sheriff Her
man Jahnke Of this city, accompanied
by Ora Trautmann, member of the
Comfrey firm, and Joseph Luksick, an
employe in the Erickson & Trautman
store at that place, drove to Window,
whittier the supposed bandits had been
taken by Sheriff Ole G. Peterson,
Friday morning, and both Mr. Traut-
man and Mr.. Luksick positively
identified one of the men, who gave his
name as John St. Albans, as the man
who had remained in the front part of
the Confrey store, while his accom-
plice went to the rear with Mr.. Traut-
man the day previous to the robbery.
Stolen Car Breaks Do wn.
The Mountain Lake robbery oc-
Cured about.2 2 o'clock last Wednesday
morning and among the articles COM
prising the loot were rs mems suits,
IL silk shirts, three cloth overcoats
and three fur overcoats. The bandits
also stole Ford sedan in which they
attempted to remove the purloined
goods to the Twin Cities. This proved
their undoing, however, for the trusted
Henry baked at the idea of becoming
implicated in such bold and de-
spicable crime and laid down on the
job. The robbers evidently experienced
considerable tire trouble, as one of the
regular tires as we'll as the spare tire
were missing, probably having been
discarded due to blowouts or punctures,
and when found by neighboring farm
er in a cornield near cemetery some
three miles beyond Jordan, even the
rim of one wheel was gone. The
bandits had been compelled to cache
their loot along the roadside, but care
fully hid the broken down car and it's
valuable load 600 or 700 feet from the
road.
Find Half of Loot.
The fact that the broken down sedan
contained only about one-half of the
goods stolen from the Mountain Lake
store, proves that the robbers must
have had two cars, returning to the
Twin Cities in the other machine when
they were compelled to abandon the
sedan. All effort to locate the missing
| goods, however, have been unsuccess-
full, although the St. Paul police
authorities assisted diligently in the
search.
Engage st. Paul Man.
| Last Wednesday evening at about
!, o'clock, Henry Lancet of St. Paul,
owner of a Case taxi, was standing
with his car in front of the old capitol
in that city, when he was approached
by John Miller, familiarly known as
"Gasoline john" who engaged him for
a drive ''into the country lancet
drove up at Ninth and St. Peter streets
at the appointed hour, o'clock that
evening, and stranger entered his car,
asking him to drive to Seven Corners,
where three other men-John ST.
! Albans, Albert Koob and Lloyd King
! got in while the party who had en-.
/ gagged Lancett's services remained be
hind with :. Kings wife The trio
headed Lancet toward Fort Smelling
and told him that the .'stuff'' which
they wanted him to get was located
! near Jordan. He was asked to bring
! it only as far as Fort Smelling.
Nabbed by Officers.
In the meantime, farmer residing
in the vicinity Of the cornfeld where
the broken down sedan had beer
hidden by the bandits, discovered tht
car there Immediately notified The
Jordan police, who had the machine
land its valuable contents towed tt
town. Two armed guards were con
sIcealed at the cache and when Lancett,
lcar came along between u and /: