The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-12-07
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SAHSTAD IN JAIL
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ward ]. Sailstad to exhume the
body OF his friend, Allen McFee.
from a cemetery near Lake Neba-
CANON, Wis, and burn it in a cot
tage that his wife might collect his
Insurance policies, according to
Seilstads confession to District At
ttsorney Thomas G. Anglin1a and shsr-
thorities he had no other motive
than to provide for his vile and
children. The confession made
public today, said:
I'm 1919 7 was president or the
Multitone Photograph company in
Eau Claire. Business began to
grow bad and / turned to my friends
ana relatives for financial assist
ance. In spite of their assistance.
began to realize that my company
was due for crash. ! then began
to think Of dropping from sight,
s snS fren MD WS With Wiz, this my thonr s
mind / began to look about and
wait until some one died In the
neighborhood of my stature, one
who was without friends or rela-
tives. began to think that 1t would
be easy to substitute a body for my
own.- burn it and make clean get
away,
Went To Douglas County
ION August IL. 1920. I left Eau
Claire and went to Douglas county
on a supposed business trip. AZ
Lake Nebagamon learned that on
August 13, Allen McPhee, casual,
friend, had been buried that very
day. went to the cemetery and
found the sexton. who proved to Be
q friend Of mine. He showed me
where McPhee had been buried and;
I made note Of It, thinking that
McPhee, who I remembered was,
about my build, would at in with
my purposes. !. intended 10 return.t
dig up McPhee's body and burn it
as my own and disappear. 1
! hurried around that afternooni
and rented a cottage. About three
o'clock on. the morning Of August 20
returned to the cemetery, found
an old shovel and dug up McPhee's
BODY. I took the body from the.
nearby and buried it. I then re.t
turned to the empty grave, dumped,
the empty casket into It, filled the.
grave and did my best to make iti
appear that the grave had not been
Found Grave Robbed !!
superior, Wis, December 6.-Of-
hcials who opened Allen McPhee,s
grave near Lake Nebagamon, found
the grave to have been robbed of
the body, according to a communal
cation from District Attorney KEN.
Mystery Cleared up |
Mystery that has clouded the "Sail.,
stad case" had been cleared up to-
DAY and three-year country-wide
guest was at an end, for Edward n
Sailstad, former manufacturer Of
ran Claire; Wis, was under arrest
With Sailstad the authorities Mt
NaRa California are holding Dorothy
Anderson. Sailstad's one time gte.,
nographer, known as the "sunshine
girl who fed with him from the
naming cottage at Lake Nebaga-
mon, near here, where, It Was
prompt the belief that he had died
In the hames, so his wife could cOl-
lect his Insurance. yas,,-S.
McFee, according TO information
available here today, was resident
OF Lake NehagamOfi. and died three
burned.
Mrs.y Richardson Not Concerned
Eau Claire, Wis. December g.
Declaring that she was mot much
concerned" over the news OF I'D
ward j: Sailstad's capture in Cali
fornia, his, former, wife. who was
married to Ross T. Richardson in
1921, today laughed at the idea OF
being a bigamist. She refused TO
believe that the matter was not a
instrumentation by Insurance
companies.
81 would not live with sailstad II
he were the only man on earth,n
Mrs. Richardson declared.
Sailstad, who carried insurance
policies totalling $4,000. disappear.
ed after fire DESTROYED his cabin at
Lake Nebagamon August 26, 1920.
and was presumed to have BEEN
burned to death. The total insurance
lin his wife's name was $56, 00O.t
while the photograph company OF
which he was president carried $15.-
Judgment for $4,000 against the
New York Life Insurance company
has been appealed and is pending ini
the circuit court Of appeals at Chi |
cago. The Commercial Travellers and
Fidelity companies have paid small
ct policies Mrs Richardson said to :,
day that the New York company adj
mitted Sailstad's death. but refused,
payment Of two policies, claiming
suicide.