The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-04-23
CAREY SENTENCED
TO SALTWATER
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@. What was that percentage?

". Dlu you 10 any coLlecIloHS oH
them?
A. No, we arranged for the collec-
ton in the town with the banker: He
always did that and / did the other.
@. Do you know where Sanborn,
MINI. is?
A. have been there. I have a
good idea: I couldn't tell you the
exact location.
@. Along the latter part of March
the 26th of Mar, 1880, the Farmers
State Bank was held up there: Can
you tell us about that?
A. Jerry Bliss and I entered the
bank and robbed it.
@ What time of day was it?
A. don't know: I was drunk and
don't remember the time: Afternoon,
l think.
@. You and Jerry Bliss robbed it?
A. Yes.
@. How did you get down to San
born?
A. We came through Springfield
and that way.
@. Did you have car?
A. Yes, a Ford coupe, 1880, blue.
@ Do you know the license num-
Der on it?
A. No, sir. 1t has a Wisconsin Ii
cense plate on it.
@. Do you know what number?
A. l don't remember it.
@. Or any figures in the number?
A. l wouldn't swear to the num-
bers.
Q. Do you know where the plates
were got?
A. Over in Wisconsin somewhere.
He got them off some car.
@. Whose Ford coupe was this?
A. Jerome Blisses's.
Q Did he buy it himself?
A. Yes, from Sturr- Gilfillan Co.
@. Do you know about when?
A. l can't tell you when: 1t is a
1880 model.
@. About what month?
A. Probably about Feb, 1880.
Q. Did he pay cash for it?
A. couldn't tell you: l wasn't
With him at the time.
Q. How much money did you get
out of this bank?
A. $4,000 out of that, is what he
told me; and he took all the money
and gave me some when | would ask
him for money! he would give it to
me.
@. What part did you take in this
holdup?
A. went in with him, and we both
had guns. He went in the vault.
Q. Did you have anyone covered
in the bank ??
A. | guess had the president.
Q. What did you do with him?
A. He was lying on the floor.
Q. How many people were in the
bank?
A. Three.
Q. And jerome Bliss went into the
vault?
A. Yes, got the money out of the
vault, and the change
Q. Do you know what denomina
tons the money was in?
A. | couldn't say: | know l didn't
take any money out of the bank. l
was afraid of it, and he gave me
money that he got in change, that
didn't come out of the bank, because
was afraid of getting caught with
it.
Q. What did he put the money in
when he took it out of the vault
A. A file case or letter case: He
dumped the letters out on the floor
and put the change and money in
that
Q. Were any remarks passed while
you had the president of the bank
and this other party covered, in re-
gard to what they should do?
A. | don't know what | said: |
don't recall just what said. l don't
know what Bliss said either.
Q. Did Bliss leave the bank first?
A. No, came out first and he had
the change in his arms.
Q Where did you have the car
parked?
A. Right in front of the bank.
Q. Where did you go after you left
the bank?
A We went out of town across the
railroad tracks and turned to the left
on the trunk highway, guess.
Q. Where did you go then?
A. We went on county roads, small
roads.
@. Did you come back to Mime
apolis?
A. Yes, in roundabout way.
Q. What time did you reach Min
neapolis?
A. 1t must have been around 8
o'clock that night.
I'm personal confession to County
Attorney Brown. Carey described the
following route from Sanborn to Min
neapolis: North from Sanborn to
highway MOI. West about two
miles and followed county roads and
did not strike town until getting to
Granite Falls. From there to Monte
video on river road and then across
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