The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-04-09

glycerin was the explosive used, and the Book job
was apparently done first that was somewhat
bungled. The lock on the safe door was knocked
off, and with charge Of the explosive the door was
blown out. It blown with such force that it
hurled across the room. In that safe the thieves
found S25
At Foreston the robbers drilled into the door of
the safe and with their explosive merely opened it.
Their loot there consisted of but 81.
Sheriff Hans Dahl states that no, residents of
either village reported hearing the explosions but
is believed that the robbers were in Book about
o'clock Saturday morning. Some persons. who were
returning from a dance at Ogilvie and passing
through Book at that hour, reported they large
car driving away from the village
In Grasston on the same night a cash box in the
post office forced open.
ST. PAUI-N. L. Enger, undertaken, reported to
police today that bluegray striped suit had been
stolen from corpse in his Undertaking establish
ment while Enger was out for lunch When he came
back the corpse minus the suit in which it was
to have been buried.
MORRIS-The time was when runaways
common enough events. But they rarities now
and when this city the scene of one Tuesday
morning it aroused about as much excitnent any
event could do For the older folks it rolled the
back to the time when they treated to
or two such happenings every week.
Observation-Disclosures of gang of young men
of Marshall has cleared up series of robberies at
Wabasso Vesta and Lucan in Redwood county and
Green Valley and several other points in Yellow Med
icine and Lyon counties.
Sheriff Louis Kise of Redwood county in
junction with the sheriff of Lyon and Yellow Medi-
cine counties have been hard at work these rob-
berries and deserve credit for ferreting out the guilty
parties
Richard Robinson of Marshall pleaded guilty to
robbery and sentenced to three years at the ST.
Cloud reformatory He is 81 years old.
Three others, also young men, VIM Riley Her
man Conrad and Arthur Richter, pleaded guilty to
charges of similar nature befort the district Judge
at Granite Falls and each given an indetermin-
ate sentence at the reformaory five years being the
maximum.
Another boy sixteen years old was implicated in
only one robbery and his handled in juven-
lie court at Marshall.
None of the men were thirty years old
One of the largest hauls at the Lestikow store
at Wabasso where they secured upwards of 5000
worth of goods of all kinds.
The robberies included general stores, meat mar
kets and pool halls. Overcoats, suits haberdashery
meats groceries, cigarettes and Tobacco includ-
ed in the loot some of which was recovered.
In addition to the wares which they took for
their personal use they stole dresses and silks
their attempt to sell these the discovery was made
VERNDALE-Dean Nutter of this village was
sleeping the first floor of his home when he was
awakened by the smell Of smoke. He warned his
wife and youngest child who sleeping in an
adjoining room. BY that time the flames had reach
ed the stairway and he unable to reach the
ond floor.
Nutter went outside and climbed tree, the
branches of which grew close to the house. He broke
a window and rescued his four other children all of
whom were unconscious from the smoke.
When the last child had been carried to safety
Nutter collapsed.