Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1911 — AUTOISTS ARRESTED AND HELD IN INDIANAPOLIS. [ARTICLE]

AUTOISTS ARRESTED AND HELD IN INDIANAPOLIS.

Men Charged With Running into Mrs. Lucas and Mrs. Reeder Held as Fugitives From Justice. The following from the Indianapolis Star of Thursday morning tells of the arrest there of the autoists who are alleged to have run into a buggy near Aix Sunday, in which Mrs. Joseph Lucas and Mrs. Jack Reeder were seated. The Star says: Arthur M. Robbins, 32 years old, a prominent automobile dealer of Chicago, representing the Centaur Motor Co. of that, city, and his chadffeur, George Miller, 23 years old, were arrested shortly after noon yesterday by Detectives Dawson and Duncan, charged with being fugitives from Justice. Charges of exceeding the speed are pending in Jasper county, Indiana, where it is alleged the two men in an automobile struck a buggy Sunday, injuring two women. After spending several hours in the office of Turnkey Mathey yesterday afternoon the prisoners were released on bond of SIOO each and will appear for trial in Police Court Saturday morning. The arrests were made on warrants issued from the Jasper circuit court. Mr. Robbins engaged counsel at once, and it was found the warrants were faulty, the clerk of the court having failed to attach his signature. Joseph Lucas, of Rensselaer, whose wife was one of the women injured in the collision, arrived at the office of Deputy Prosecutor McCarty before any further action was taken and a new affidavit was prepared in the local court. Robbins, it is said, will attempt to make some settlement with the authorities at Rensselaer before the case comes up for trial here. The accident occurred last Sunday, according to Lucas, who trailed the men here. He alleges that his wife and another woman were driving in an inclosed buggy about seven miles nortfi of Rensselaer when Robbins and Miller ran into them with their machine. It is said the men did not stop, but passed through Rensselaer before word of the affair reached authorities. Lucas found the men had stopped at a Rensselaer garage for repairs after the accident and also bid registered at a hotel there for dinner. The affidavits were prepared and forwarded to the local detective department with instructions to arj est and hold the men if they appeared here. 1

Lucas returned from Indianapolis Thursday morning on the 10:05 train and swore out another warrant for the arrest of the' two men and Sheriff Hoover went to Indianapolis on the 11:06 train to hunt up the men and make the arrest. If he succeeds in finding them he will bring them back to Rensselaer for trial.