The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-10-31
Local Goods
Found With
Bank Yeggs
Filtered Mattresses, Bedding
and Linen From Bar
nette Cottages
WERE HERE SEPT. 18TH
Planned To Rob Melrose and
Other Banks This
Week

with the capture OF the two Kos
coe bank robbery suspects, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. Barnette, Of this city,
learned the whereabouts Of several
articles of furnishings for their
cottages, which were stolen the
night of September Both. Upon the
capture Of these men at cottage
in the vicinity Of Lincoln, Mimi.
recently, the mattresses, pillows,
quilts and linens used as furnish
ings were found to be the property
of Mr.. and Mrs. Barnette.
On the night of September 18th,
two men giving the names of Ed
and Harry Hawkinson, stopped al
the Barnette place and rented one
Of the cottages for the night. They
learned where the keys were kept
and returned the night of the 30th
and pilfered all of the furnishings
of one Of the cottages, such as
mattresses, pillows and quilts, and
all of the quilts of another, besides
the linen which had been kept in
a closet in another cottage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barnette immed-
lately informed Chief of Police
Fred Mossman, who telephoned a
description of the goods to Sheriff
McIntee, who when the capture
was made, recognized the articles
as those described by the local
chief. Sheriff McIntee Immediately
notified Mr.. and Mrs. Barnette.
These men were captured follow
ing the bank robbery at Roscoe
last week Thursday afternoon, and
two confessions involving a series
of robberies in Stearns and adj
joining counties have been made
The men are being held for ques-
tioning in connection with the Ros-
coe robbery.
The two who have confessed
crimes are Harry Hawkinson, and
Henry Lynn, both Of Cadott. Wis
Lynn admits having served nine
years of an 10 year term at Sioux
Falls, s. D.
Hawkinson, a young man, was
first to confess. He implicated the
other three in thefts and confess
ed his part in the stealing of the
Alphonse Staller car at st. Joseph
some weeks ago. He said the car
had been used in some of the
"jobs" but that it had been hidden
in a straw stack near a farm at
Lincoln which the men had rented,
for some days after the theft.
Lynn was the second to confess
but wanted to "take the rapp" for
Hawkinson who he termed "just a
kid"
Hawkinson's confession includes
the New Munich lumber yard and
dry goods store; the Browerville
depot robbery; Browerville garage;
a garage at Frazee where blow
torches and acetelyne torches were
taken; Ogema, Mimi, mill where q
safe was blown and a gasoline theft
at Sank Rapids.
Two Of the four men were taken
in a garage on farm near Lin
coin when Sheriff Art McIntee of
this county, Chief Of Police Ed
Brick, of st. Cloud, Deputy Sheriff
Adams, Of Todd county and Sheriff
Butcher, Of Morrison county, sur
prised them. Arthur Erickson, of
the state bureau, has aided since
then. They were at work with q
blow torch on railway rail "prac-
ticing," one Of them said. The Of
ficers obtained a description Of the
third man and he was arrested at
Lincoln at filling station. Mrazik,
the fourth, was taken at Little Falls
on the following day.
In possession Of the three at
Lincoln was found slightly less
than a pint Of nytroglycerine, soft
SOAP" sometimes used in filling
cracks in safes or vault doors to
muffle the sound Of an explosion,
pistols, shotguns and rifles, acete-
lyme torches. gas tanks, hammers
and a quantity Of other tools, used
in burglary.
Melvin c. Passolt, head Of the
bureau Of criminal apprehension,
arrived shortly after the ar
rests were made and termed the
catch one Of the best made in the
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