Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1914 — DID ANDREW GRANGER RUN AUTOMOBILE FENCE? [ARTICLE]

DID ANDREW GRANGER RUN AUTOMOBILE FENCE?

Big Cadilac Recovered Tuesday, While Many Other Cars Are Reported Found at DeMotte. Ogden T. McCleery, of Chicago, was in Rensselaer Tuesday and swore out an attachment for a big Cadillac touring car in the possession of Andrew Granger, a store keeper at DeMotte. Deputy Sheriff Gus Grant went to DeMotte on election day and got the machine, which is a fine one aside from some hard bumps it seems to have had. He brought the car to Rensselaer and placed it in the Central Garage to remain until the case can be heard at the November term of the circuit court. The engine number had been filed off, al! except a part of the figure “6”. The car bore Indiana numbers, which Granger removed before the car was brought to Rensselaer. About a month ago McCleery attended the Grant theatre in Chicago, leaving his car in the street. When he went for the car after the show, it was gone. Detectives, who were looking for other missing cars, are reported to have* found lour or five cars in Granger’s possession, and McCleery came to DeMotte Monday and found his car. Granger, however, claimed to have purchased the car in Hamniond but refused to give the name of the party from whom he had bought it. McCleery positively identified the car as his property. It is stated that a large business has been conducted by Granger in second hand cars. A. B. Randle, D. W. Waymire, H. W. Marble and many others have purchased cars of him and one.report says that there are from 15 to 20 cars in the neighborhood of DeMotte which Granger had sold. It is understood that he purchased them or claims to have done so of parties in Hammond. He sold the cars so cheap it is reported as to suggest that they were stolen property. Granger is not under arrest, no action having been taken so far but tjtie replevying of the cars. Granger is a man about 35 or 40 years of age and the son of Hank Granger, the Thayer citizen who has been in the limelight several times.