The Mankato free press., 1921-12-30

Ine CONCESSION or fsaTl slater, IHuruei
or of Frank l.. Kelley, former member
of the state legislature. as given to Will
liam a. Blanchard. county attorney of
Anoka county, follows:
Mr.. Blanchard addressing the pris-
oner): Now young man. you have Deen
arrested charged with the murder of
Frank Kelly in Anoka county. am
the county attorney of Anoka county and
we have brought you in here to give you
chance to make any statement that
, YOU care to make at this time. You un-
derstand that. do you?"
o-,'Are YOU willing to make a state
ment at this timer
A-"Yes. sir"
Q-"A full and complete statement"
o-"HaSe the officers that have
brought You here made any threats to-
ward you?"
| A-"No. sir"
3-.".ocgf ..cg any kind or description"
Q-"You are under no fear at this
time?"
A-"No. sir I am not
Qm'Iou fully understand the situa-
Ayes. sir"
Prisoner Gives Name.
The prisoner gave his name as Earl
! Slater. his age as twenty-siX years, and
said he was married. and had been work
IHB lOT the falTmOnl lacklnS company
He said lie did not expect his job to last
much longer. and was in a pretty tight
pinch"
On December IS. he said. he went to
Fairmont, Mimi. and stayed there Tues
| day night and Wednesday, returning 10
Winnebago.
His confession then says:
II stayed there until Friday afternoon
ed at the Ben Pay hotel under the
name of Will Larson. l was there three
nights. Sunday night stayed at the
Saulpaugh hotel Monday and Tuesday
night i stayed at the Ben Pay
Hotel Registers Identified.
At this point Slater identified the reg
listers at the Saulpaugh and the Ben Pay
| hotels.
His confession continues:
Tuesday afternoon l met Mr. Kelly
at the Simonette Auto garage. / told
him l had some LIQUOR up north and
had broke my car-the car was broke
a cash arrangement so he would have
| the money on him to go up and get it
and haul it in. | gave him certain
| offer on what | had, made 1t as well
ing to him. I told him had fourteen
cases of Canadian club and twenty gal
Ions Of alcohol and wanted just what
!, it cost me. 1t figured up 700 and some
odd dollars.
II asked him if he could get the mon
ey. and he said he couldn't. He couldn't
handle all of it,
Agreement On Departure.
! THE agreement when we left was to
bring it back down to Mankato and
dispose of it in Mankato, and to give
me my money out Oft as soon as pos
sible. Then Mr. Kelley made a kind OF
that he would give me a certain amount
of money and car for the deal-for the
works, trade his car in and a certain
amount of money. think it was 5000
/ Ia.,l hi f@- h.
get a car here in Minneapolis and haul
| IL home with him.
81 didn't accept the proposition be-
cause I had to go with him to get the
liquor and / didn't have it to get.
! ~ told Kelly l had the liquor hidden
a little ways from a school house out
Of E2k River. Minnesota. I had never
re in the Elk oss River tn Elk even RHsr had to %
Bemidji to start with. 1 was thinking
Bemidji was about thirty miles north OF
the cities. l found out it was not.
! knew it was too far to get anybody to
| to Elk River the first night after got
HoIdup Is PIannes. ..-
just for mere holdup game to get the
money. Kelly had s175 in checks and
paper money. There was only one check
of $3.50 and twenty and five in paper
money.
1--WE left Mankato in the afternoon
about APO from the Simonette garage.
drove straight through to Minneapolis
I'VE had tire trouble just outside OF
an old spare he had taken, but he
wouldn't drive it. so we pulled into a
garage And one of his feet was pretty
badly frozen, so he got bucket OF cold
water and warmed his feet. 1 don't re-
/ member the name of the place. There
were four men there at the time we
pulled in. After Kelly had his feet
! fixed we went out together. We went
| to breakfast then-not to breakfast, to
supper-at a Creeks place. don't
know just where it was. Then we
secuted around to look up tire shop