Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1913 — STOLE AN AUTO IN CHICAGO; CAPTURED [ARTICLE]

STOLE AN AUTO IN CHICAGO; CAPTURED

Sheriff Hoover Young Man Who Hari Been Leading Gay Life At Parr Sinee Saturday. Last Saturday a young man, giving the name of Leslie Trexler, arrived at Parr with a 2-passenger Buick roadster, an almost new and mighty fine little car. He soon made lots- of friends at Parr and his friends bought gasoline and Leslie took them over the bumps in great fashion. He ran the car at top speed all the time and made all the big autos in this neck of the woods get out of the way. His conduct led many to suspicion that the auto had been stolen. R. D. Thompson was in Chicago a few days ago and learned that a car answering the description was missing and Wednesday Sheriff Hoover received a telegram from Detective John J. Halpiri, telling him to arrest the party having the machine. Sheriff Hoover went to Parr Wednesday night and learned that Trexler had gone to Fair Oaks to see a girl named Bozell. The sheriff followed him and got to Fair Oaks too late, to apprehend his man, as the young fellow had gone to Roselawn. The sheriff left Fair Oaks between 12 and 1 o’clock that night and found Trexler sound asleep on a sofa in the office of Dr. Rice ait Roselawn. Trexler woke up long enough to hear the sheriff read the telegram from the detective and then asked a few questions and went off to sleep again. He finally woke up enough to understand that sheriff Hoover was going to bring him to jail and even then he did not seem to give the matter much concern. He claimed to have bought the car for S9OO and that he had received money as an allowance from an estate. Reports are that he had offered to sell the car for SSOO, later sots $250 and later for SIOO. A reporter for The Republican called on him at trie jail this Thursday morning and he said that he had been “stewed” the night before and did not know what was going on. He admitted that he had stolen the. automobile from an alley in Chicago last Thursday and driven it about the city for two days and then came to Parr last Saturday. He said he had not changed the numbers, but the numbers were not the ones the owner had on the car, except the engine number, which could not be changed. He said that he had been working as an auto repair man and driver In Chicago for almost two years and that he is now only 19 years of age. He said that his mother Jives at 26 Walcott street, Indianapolis, and that his father lives at Birmingham, Ala., and that he knows they will not help him and that he don’t care what they do to him. He waived the process of requisition and accompanied a Chicago officer back to the city Thursday afternoon.