The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-01-21
YOUNG men ARRA|GNED
SEVERAL WE'RE BROUGHT
INTO POLICE COURT
Hearing Dated For January 10;
Bond of $500 From Each
Is Required

Municipal court chambers present
ed a very busy scene Saturday af
ternoon when nine young men Of
this city were arraigned before Judge
Hirman Golf on the charge of earn
ally knowing and abusing q female
child under the age of eighteen
years" This was the outcome OF an
investigation which had been in pro-
gress for the past five days by Chief
Jacob Hilgers, County Attorney c. e.
Phillips and Judge Hiram Golf. At
the proceedings Saturday afternoon
Joseph Riedel, Amel Meurer, Fred
Jensen, BENJAMIN Pomeroy, Howard
Hinton, Elmer Swan, Harold Swart-
out, Merle Kimble, and H. F. Schwic-
kert appeared before the court,
waived the reading Of the warrant,
and asked for continuance of their
cases until Tuesday, January IS, at
two o'clock to determine whether
they will then ask for an examina-
ton in the court, or waive the ex-
animation and be bound over 10
await the action Of the grand jury
at the February term of the district
court Each of the defendants was
for his appearance on that date.
Malcolm Morehart for whom war
rant had been issued, it is under
stood, was out of the city, but will
appear before the court later on.
County Attorney c. E. Phillips ex-
planned to The Free Press that
warrant had been made out against
one John Roberts, but he learned
late Saturday afternoon that this was
q tn 0if.t
in the case. For that reason he wish
ed to state that no man by the name
of John Roberts is implicated in the
case. This man Roberts was sup
posed to be transient and not a
resident of this city The real name
OF the man has been learned, and
will be made known as soon as he
is placed under arrest.
Chief of Police Jacob Hilgers in
statement to The Free Press late
Saturday afternoon said that some
time ago one of his patrolmen had
notified him that a young girl was
keeping very late hours on the
streets. The chief had a talk with
the girl and told her to be at home
early and remain in her room. He
instructed the police to report to
him REGARDING her actions. He says
that the girl tried to obey, but she
was being continually called up over
the phone by young men, and she
admitted to the chief that she would
go to her rooms and sneak out later
on. ON Tuesday night, January IL,
one of the police officers reported
that the girl went to one of the
local hotels and remained there until
two o'clock in, the morning. When
she was about to leave the hotel in
a taxi she was placed under arrest
by an officer and taken to the police
station. 1t was following this that the
girl implicated number of young
men in the charge mentioned. From
that time until Saturday afternoon
the girl was held as material wit
ness, and was given quarters at the
county Jail.
In statement to The Free Press
Miss Ethel Demmick stated that
she will be seventeen years of age
in February. Before coming to Man
kato about the first of September
she stated that the largest town she
had ever been in was Amboy. She
had never seen moving picture
show until she arrived in Mankato.
Being very fond of dancing and the
theatres, she took every advantage
to attend the same. The lure of the
amusements had led to her downfall.
1t is understood that the police
still have the dragnet out, and other
arrests will follow.