April 24, 1917 – It wasn’t until his wife called the
precinct around 6 p.m. asking if anyone knew why her husband hadn’t come home
at his usual time, that the Minneapolis police realized that Traffic Patrolman
George Connery was missing. The last time he’d been seen was by two fellow
patrolmen, Charles E. Ziegler and F.X. Kort, who had
stopped two men for speeding and asked Connery to ride with the two men back to
the East Side police station to pay their $25 bail.
The driver gave his name as Howard Lux to Patrolmen Kort and Connery. ”We’ve just been arrested in St. Paul for speeding, and it took all our money to give bail,” Lux pleaded. “The plea was in vain. Patrolman Connery climbed into the rear seat of the men’s car, the curtains of which were closely drawn. The prisoners occupied the front seat.”1
At the end of their shift, when Kort and Ziegler returned to the station, they were surprised to “find no record of the men Patrolman Connery had stopped. Inquiries revealed that Connery never had appeared at the station with his captives.” He had also never reported back to the station at the end of his shift. The call from Mrs. Connery set off the alarm bells. Even so, “the East Side station failed to report the matter to headquarters until nearly 10 p.m.”1
“From 10 p.m. on, the entire night police force searched for Patrolman Connery. Every detective in the department was sent out. In seven automobiles they covered all of Minneapolis, but it was then approximately eight hours after Connery’s disappearance and the trail was cold.”1
The driver gave his name as Howard Lux to Patrolmen Kort and Connery. ”We’ve just been arrested in St. Paul for speeding, and it took all our money to give bail,” Lux pleaded. “The plea was in vain. Patrolman Connery climbed into the rear seat of the men’s car, the curtains of which were closely drawn. The prisoners occupied the front seat.”1
At the end of their shift, when Kort and Ziegler returned to the station, they were surprised to “find no record of the men Patrolman Connery had stopped. Inquiries revealed that Connery never had appeared at the station with his captives.” He had also never reported back to the station at the end of his shift. The call from Mrs. Connery set off the alarm bells. Even so, “the East Side station failed to report the matter to headquarters until nearly 10 p.m.”1
“From 10 p.m. on, the entire night police force searched for Patrolman Connery. Every detective in the department was sent out. In seven automobiles they covered all of Minneapolis, but it was then approximately eight hours after Connery’s disappearance and the trail was cold.”1
1http://www.mpdfederation.com/george-connery/
Minneapolis Patrolman George Connery
http://www.mpdfederation.com/george-connery/
Car Connery disappeared in found in St. Paul; see April 25, 2015 blog
More than 1,000 volunteers join Minneapolis police in the search for missing patrolman; see April 28, 2015 blog
Connery and Dunn murders linked; see May 4, 2015, blog
Anonymous caller tells police where body of Connery is located; see May 5, 2015 blog
Second man in “death car” arrested in Omaha; see May 7, 2015 blog
Patrolman George Connery laid to rest; see May 8, 2015 blog
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