Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1910 — SCOTT CHESNUT BOUND OVER TO CIRCUIT COURT. [ARTICLE]

SCOTT CHESNUT BOUND OVER TO CIRCUIT COURT.

Charged with Theft of Automobile Coat and Goggles from Tourist, He fs Sent to JalL Scott R. Chesnut, an automobile machinist and electrician, son of Thos. O. Chesnut, was today bound over to the circuit court in the*sum of SIOO to answer to the charge of larceny. In default of bail Chesnut was sent to Jail. George Daubner and E. P. Anderson reached Rensselaer this morning in a Halladay Glidden Press automobile and stopped at the Rensselaer garage. When they were, ready to leave at 8:30 o’clock they missed a rain coat and pair of goggles and the owner, Mr.' Daubner, started an investigation. Information which he received indicated that Chesnut had taken the property and Marshal Mustard was called into the case and Chesnut soon admitted that the property had been concealed by him at the light plant, where it was recovered. Daubner had Chesnut arrested and a preliminary hearing was had before Squire Irwin, and John Braddock and Stewart Moore testified that they saw Chesnut take the goggles from the car. Chesnut denied having taken The goggles, but said that he had picked the rain coat up from the floor and that the goggles must have been in the coat. He claimed that he told Clay Norgor, an attache of the garage, that If any one called for the coat they would find it in the tire room, but Norgor testified that he did not hear Chesnut tell him anything of the kind. Norgor, however, testified that Cbesnut was under the influence of liquor. The owner of the stolen articles testified that the coat was worth $6 and the goggles $7.50. Chesnut is an able machinist, chauffeur and electrician, but it is said that he has been going to the bad lately. Liquor and cigarettes have contributed to his downfall. It is not improbable that the prosecuting witness, Daubner, will not appear against him, when his case comes up for trial, but the experience should serve as a lesson to him.