Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1910 — COLLEGE STUDENT CHARGED WITH PETIT LARCENY. [ARTICLE]

COLLEGE STUDENT CHARGED WITH PETIT LARCENY.

Broke into Gym, Swiped sl9, was Arrested, Lodged in Jail, and Bound Over to Circuit Court. Elmer Beile, 19 years of age, a student at St. Joseph’s college, is now in the Jasper county jail, with a charge of petit larceny filed against him, and being under bond, in the sum of S3OO, which he can not furnish. The affidavit was preferred by Father Augustine Seifert, president of the college, when he learned that Beile' had broken into the college gymnasium and taken sl9 from the barbershop cash drawer. Beile admitted his guilt and the money was recovered, but after communicating with the boy’s relatives and finding them unwilling to help him out, it was decided to let the law take itß course. It is understood that Beile lived in St. Louis with his mother and last fall stole enough money from her to bring him to the home of his grandmother at Lafayette. She decided to place him in school at St. Joseph’s college and he came here last November. During the winter students missed money at times and circumstantial evidence pointed to Beile as the guilty party. No positive evidence was procured against him until last Sunday, when the theft at the gymnasium was discovered and Beile weakened under the third degree questioning and admitted that he was guilty, His mother came up from Lafayette, but refused to give him any aid and stated that he had been a bad boy, incorrigible and not deserving of assistance. He will have to remain in jail until the September term of the Jasper circuit court.