The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-04-03
-FOUR MEN RECEIVE
SENTENCE OF YEAR
HarbOred and Used Inmates
From the Minnesota Home
School for Girls
ALL RESIDE AT OSAKIS
Crimes Committed Last Sep
tember-One Man Wanted
On Mann Act Charge

The evening of Sept. p, 1929,
three girl inmates of the Home
School living at Brookdale farm
northeast of the city, escaped.
Oct. 3 one of the girls left Fargo
and was picked up by a truck driv-
er west of the city. The man was
bound for Minneapolis. He stopped
at Raymond Brothers depot in this
| city, and one of the men connected
with the depot inquired: who is
the dame you have in the cab with
you?" HE said it was a girl he
had picked up west of the city and
was giving her a ride into Mime
apolis. He said she protested
against stopping in this city. This
gave the Sank Centre man an idea
and he called the Home School.
Within very few minutes officers
from the school arrived at the de-
pot and claimed the girl
She told them the other two girls
were in Fargo, and they were To-
Gated in a short time and returned
to the school.
The girls refused to give any in
formation as to who spirited them
away from the school or where
they were before they reched Far
go
For some time the girls have
been kept in separate cottages and
were not allowed to communicate
with each other.
Last week the youngest of the
trio, girl about Is years old,
weakened and told the story. The
other girls were called in and
questioned separately. When COM
parasions were made it was found
that the stories corroborated.
Saturday of last week officers of
the school with the girls interview
ed County Attorney Thornton at
Alexandria. Complaints were signed
against VIM. Ritter, IS, Osakis;
Lloyd Byland, 81, Osakis; Henry
(Buck) Clark, Is, Osakis; and
Bruce Kleberger, %, Osakis.
The men were taken before
Judge Don M Cameron at Alexan-
dria Tuesday morning and entered
pleas Of guilty to the following
charges: Clark was sentenced to
one year at Saltwater on the
| charge of keeping a house of ill
fame; Byland was sentenced to
one year at Saltwater for carnal
knowledge; Kleberger was sentenc-
ed to one year in the reformatory
at st. Cloud for carnal knowledge;
Ritter to one year in Saltwater for
indecent liberties with a 16-year-old
girl.
According to the story told they
were first taken to Osakis where
they were kept in Clark's shack
overnight. In the meantime they
were we'll supplied with moon
shine. The next day they were TAX
en- to a shack Clark owned near
Parker's Prairie, where they re-
manned for several days. firing Of
being secluded, when food was
brought them they demanded that
they be taken away. They were
Parker's Prairie when the car ran
out of gas and they were told to
go on their way on foot. They fin
ally landed at Battle Lake where
they were picked up and taken to
Fargo, N. D.
All of the men mentioned above
are single, but the man who con-
veyed them to Fargo, has a wife
and small child. He has skipped
the country. When he is located
he will have to face a charge OF
| the violation of the Mann act.
The Herald doesn't pay any at
tention to the ordinary escapes
from the Home School and the de-
tails of the escape of these girls is
published as a warning of the con-
sequences any young men residing
! in the Sank Centre vicinity may ex-
pect if they trespass with girls
from the Home School who are
wards of the state