Evening star., 1934-02-08


ticket for Owatonna from him last
night was Bremen.
MERIT Horn. cab driver at
Rochester, declared he was certain
he drove Bremen from the bus depot
to the railroad station after the VIC
tim had learned he would be unable
to get bus out of there for St. Paul
that night.
Tells of First Contact.
DR.. H. T. Nippert, friend OF the
Bremers. said the first contact with
the family by the gang after the
original ransom note was mace
through him. He received three notes.
on January 20, three days after the
seizure.
A large envelope, containing three
notes, was slipped under the door OF
his home and milk bottle hurled
through the door glass to attract at,
tention Nippert at the time admitted
the bottle incident, but declared, II
would be beneath my honor ana
dignity as a physician to deny the
notes if any had been received.
The three notes were addressed to
Walter Magee. Adolph Bremen and
DR.. Nippert.
A telephone call from an unidentl-
fed man that morning instructed the
physician to go down and look at
your front door and don't be afraid.
Nippert then found the envelope. II
was penned in ink in Bremers hand
writing the physician said.
DR.. Sprafka said the bankers wife
ard their 8-year-old daughter, Betty
were in the house with the family.
Bremen. the physician said, was not
sure whether his eyes were taped or
whether he was blindfolded during his
Imprisonment. Neither did he know
the physician said the vicinity in
which he was held captive in relation
to Rochester, MINI. where he was
freed.
Seen by Depot Employees.
The banker, friends said, TOOK a bus
from Rochester to ST. Paul then went
to his fathers home in a taxicab.
First announcement OF his release
was made by Werner Hanni. chief OF
the Department of Justice office
Howard McGonn and Mrs. Jennie
Haight, employees Of the bus depot at
Rochester. were believed to have been
the first persons to see the banker
after his release.
He entered the depot, they said
about pm. yesterday. asking about
bus connections with the Twin Cities
They told him he had missed the last
bus that night TO the Twin Cities, but
that he could take a train to Owa-
tonna. nearby. and catch bus there
Bremen was quoted as saying he
couldn't do that McGonn and Mrs
Haight paid no particular attention to
the unshaven stranger, who appeared
dazed. they said. and did not know
he was the long sought st. Pau
banker
Banker Is Quizzed.
They did not know, they said, whether
Bremen took a train to Owatonna ano
caught bus there.
As soon as Bremen returned home
Chief of Police Thomas Dahill, In
spector of Detectives Charles Tierne1
and Detective Tom Brown Of the st
Paul Police Department rushed to tht
Adolph Bremen home.
They. with Federal investigators
Immediately began questioning the
banker. No one else was permitted
to enter the yard. guarded by police
and Federal operatives.
M F. Kinkead, Ramsey County at
torney, came to the home shortly
afterward The door first was shut ir
his face A few minutes elapsed be-
fore he was admitted.
Hanni, asked If Bremen was al
right, replied Yes, he is"
Beyond that. silence veiled the ex,
perlences of the banker since the
gang seized him shortly after he hac
left his s-year- old daughter Betty al
the exclusive Summit Girls School.
Refused to Cooperate.
At the home with Bremen and hi.
father were his uncle. Otto Bremen
chairman of the board of the Amer
ican National Bank and head of the
Minnesota Home owners Loan Cor
poration. The BremerS. prominen
Democrats. steadfastly refused to CO.
operate with authorities during the
bankers imprisonment, feeling at thai
time any police activity would en-
danger the victims life.
Each victim was taken from hi!
automobile. A short time after
Bremen was seized an anonymous tele-
phone call was received by Magee
The speaker informed him a note
would be found on the rear doorstep
of his office.