Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1912 — Boy Pirates Hush Baby’s Cries With Cookies [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Boy Pirates Hush Baby’s Cries With Cookies

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Just like lw all the money in the world was the way $23 looked to two twelve-year-old robbers'who looted the till of a Lake street grocery, fed a baby gingersnaps to keep it quiet while they .made the raid, and then fled to Lake 'Minnetonka, where they planned to become pirateß, with a cave on Michael’s island for headquarters. The pirate flag was never raised, for the sight of two youngsters buying ice cream- sodas by the half dozen and dickering with boatmen to charter a launch was too bizarre to escape the notice of Chief of Police John Powers of Excelsior. With but $5 of the money spent, the pirate cruise ended in the city Jail The boys told their own story when they were locked up, They said, they went into Gust Johnson’s grocery, 623 East Lake street. Just to spend a few pennies. They found the store de-

serted save for Lucile. Johnson's babj daughter. "We opened the cash register," said one of the prisoners. "Then the baby cried. 1 gave it a ginger-cooky out of a box near the register. It laughed and stopped crying. We took $22 from the register. We went downtown right away, and took a car for the lake We slept back of a store all night, and the* we looked around. We thought we would dig a cave os the island and live there**