The Mankato free press., 1920-09-10
MAJ, Is NeDer Too
Old TO Fall For
Woman, SaidJule
SorrowfuI Tale Told BY Mans
bacher; Claims He Is Goat,
All Right

L
bacher, whom he placed under ar
rest at Virginia, Mimi, on warrant
sworn to by M. j. O'Brien. manager of
the Value Store of this city. who
charges the prisoner with uttering
and delivering check with intent to
defraud, without having sufficient
funds in the bank upon which the
check was drawn to meet It. On
August q, it will be remembered
Mansbacher went to the Value Store.
where he wrote out check for 900
in favor of Miss Ruth Firth, who II
is alleged posed as his daughter, and
purchased an $50 suit. This check
! was drawn on the First National
| Bank of Minneapolis, but 1t was later
found that Mansbacher had no funds
there to meet the sum for which the
paper was drawn. The suit was lat
er recovered by the n Value Store
from Miss Firth, who 1t Is understood
has rooms at 1925 Range street,
North Mankato.
Mansbacher when seen this morn
| ing by a reporter of The Free Press,
was very willing TO talk as he lay on
a cot in one of the cells of the coun-
ty Jail.
"Man is Never Too DID,"
81 am a man forty three years OF
age, and thought that I had about
gotten over my youthful pranks, but
| then ! CUES a man never gets too old
I to fall for the smiles of woman.
said Mansbacher In prefacing his
story of the trouble he Is now In.
"You see It was this way: My part
ner and had been In town for some
| Al 81 10 fot
| for the enlargement Of photographs.
| One evening went over to this girls
place to deliver picture. During
the course Of the conservation that
| followed she remarked that sne was
rather lonely ! at once proposed that
she accompanying me to moving pic
ture show, bus she said that her
| clothes were not good enough to an :
pear in public that way. l thought
| that she needed three or four dollar
waist, and in order to be a good tel
| low said that / might help her out.
] Later she told me that she could not
get what clothes she wanted for less
| than S35 1t rather staggered me,
but I told her that that would be all
right. She told me the next day mat
| she had visited one of the local stores
and learned that she could not get
the kind of suit she wanted for less
than $50. / told her / did not have
! that much money. Then she asked
me If 1 could not write her a check.
| In order to get rid of her told her
would. / guess she did pose as my
daughter, and believe that / made
| the remark that she was my niece
| when entered the store. wish you
would state this. however, l had made
out the check for 500 In favor of the
Y hn otnr ord
when the assistant manager came
| TO look over the paper. ] said to him:
| DO not deliver the clothing to her
until you eend this check to the First
Nc.ioral Bank of Minneapolis for
collection
Wanted TO Get Rid Of "Dame"
| "You see I merely wanted to get
rid of the dame, and wanted the firm
to find out that the paper was no
good. The assistant manager, how
ever said that there was no need TO go
to all that trouble. that he would
stamp the check with the firm name
local banks. / think that this young
man will tell you the same thing. ]
! insisted again that the check be sent
to the bank upon which 1t was drawn
for collection, but the assistant man
ager hurried across the street and
cashcd the check and handed me back
$40. Did you ever hear Of any thinn
quite as easy Why Il any one had
| told me- that check Of STRANGER
would be taken without question hv
a business man. would have thoueht
the fellow crazy. The sac was fair
1 ly pushed upon me. Tho girl and
left the store and proceeded to mil
linerv store where / purchased her
SIG hat and kept the remaining
four dollars The ladv nrorised 70
meet me that night, end we were 60
ing to a show dressed to kill. hut any
charms she may have seen In mo
she must have soon forgotten, for
later found out that she went out to
some entertainment that night with
young man In North Mankato
When / called up her residence some
one sail that the lady had gone out
| to visit her grandmother.-f guess
! this was joke all right and now
am the goat" said Mansbacher.
| Mansbacher says that he is willing
to make good the balance Of $40 that
! the firm is out and has already writ
ten to relatives OF his living In the
south to get the funds. He stated
that his partner was in no way what
ever connected with the deal. His
| hearing will come up in the munici
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