Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1912 — RENSSELAER MEN ON FALSE TRACK. [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER MEN ON FALSE TRACK.

Supposed Crooks Run Down by Bens* selaer Ante Prove to be Lafayette Men of Good Standing. Four men enroute from Chicago to Lafayette in a Buick passed through here last Wednesday and stopped for supplies at the Rensselaer Garage, They purchased an automobile tire and an inner tube of the proprietor, Dan Waymire, and paid him by a check on the Continental National Bank of Chicago. The owner of the machine and the one who signed the check was Dr. S. Sydney Walker, Jr. When the new tire was placed Mr. Walker decided to buy another. Mr. Waymire Instructed one of his employes to put it on, and then left .the garage. When the seqond new tirb was on the auto party left, stating that both tires had been settled for with Mr, Waymire. When Mr. Waymire returned he found that he had been buncoed. He telephoned to Remington and had the Marshal hold the party and Instructed him to collect $36.60 from Dr. Walker or arrest him. Dr. Walker came across with a check for S2B, stating that he had

been overcharged $8 at the Rensselaer Garage. Mr. Waymire presented the first check at toe State Bank. On investigation, Delos Thompson, the cashier, found that Dr. Walker’s credit In the bank was good. for li.gflg: J When the check was sent in, however, the State Bank was notified that the Chicago bank .had been instructed by ' Dr. Walkef to stop payment on it. This left Waymire holding the sack minus about SBO worth of tires and i inner tubes.

A party of three men passed through Rensselaer at a high rate of speed this morning in the same kind of machine and it was thought by Mr. Waymire and others to be the same buneh. Consequently Marshal Mustard was instructed to telephone to the authorities at Crown Point and have the party held there on a charge of exceeding the speed limit. In the meantime Delos Thompson, Sheriff Hoover, Dan Waymire and Max Kenner started to head them off in the former’s machine. They overtook them at Thayer and discovered that they were working on a false clue: They found the men to be all Lafayette men of good standing and of a genial disposition. They were Homer N. Motsinger, president and general manager of the Motsinger Device Mfg. Co.; James M. Garr and B. L. Rogers. After the Rensselaer bunch had explained their mission they all had a good laugh over the situation and sat down to lunch ■ Mr. Thompson and his party got back at 2:30 and Mr. Waymire is still holding the sack.