Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1914 — STILL MORE CARS AND MORE RUMORS [ARTICLE]

STILL MORE CARS AND MORE RUMORS

Detectives Are Thick and Busy— Grangers Still Free-r-Qne Man Arrested Thursday. »' * ■’i - O —T - ( 1 i- . - "Detectives' continue to file replevin suits as a means of getting possession of automobile lb the possession of persons residing ,in this cou.nty and which they allege were ‘•stolen" from persons living in Chicago, Thursday - the Overland car which H. W. Marble bought of Andy Granger, was brought down and the same day a Ford lit possession of Warren Zellars, of Fab; - . Oaks, was siezed. Another car, an Overland roadster, in the possession of Andrew Wilson, of Hebron,w as also taken, find replevin action started to recover cars in the pos-

session of A. B. Randle, of Rensselaer, and TV. &. McConnell, of Fair Oaks. Detectives went to Fair Oaks to get the McConnell car. but found that Mr. McConnell and family’ were -.'taking an automobile ,trip over in /Illinois'.The Zellers ear was purchased of the Grangers by Joes Davisson and sold to Jim Snedeker, who sold it to Wkrien Zeljers. Mr. Snedeker accompanied "the officers to Fair Oaks. "Mr. Davisson has been giving them all the help he can to unravel the mystery, as he had purchased two or three cais and sold them to other persons. Dr. Rice, of Rokelawn, had bought a car of the Grangers, it is said, ..but/had"sold it to some one at South,Bend. The officers'state that lie".said he had forgotten the name of the purchaser. Besides Pietseh, North and .Hedge.- the auto.insurance company agents, four nther detectives were here Thursday night. Ontf'pf ik/-in ' was Walter/.37 r Garyey, ah operated for the sTiippS’, Hunt & Dorman international detective agency. With him is L. A. Fitzgerald. Mr. Garvey has been working on this job for”'about three months and says that he has unearthed the biggest nest of automobile thieves in Chicago. He- expects to have Andrew Granger indicted in Chicago on the charge of conspiracy in receiving stolen property and also for gran4 larceny. He expects to connect Hank and.Spobfiy Granger with the thefts and also to show that Hank's daughter, Mrs. Rosina Haberman; of Hammond;,was implicated in, some of the gang’s work. He states that the rugs and other furniture from the Adams’ ranch house, which was robbed several months ago and for which Charley Shi-nkle is now awaiting trial in the Rensselaer jail, were found concealed in Mrs. Haber* man’s house in Hammond. Two detectives from the Chicago Central Detective Bureau, of Chicago,- Who are working on the job and who were here over night are Sergeants Sullivan and Sheehy. They say that they can trace eighty automobiles stolen it* Chicago to the Eankakee .river and believp that all of them hay£ passed through the hands of the Grangers. A 1 Konovsky, the DeMotte saloonkeeper, whose Reo car is held in a Rensscaler garage, went to Hammond Thursday and -found two men whom he says brought the car he purchased to Granger. The men accompanied Konovsky t;o Rensselaer, where one of them was arrested and placed in jail. He .gives the name of Ed K-roll. but Garvey says his real name is' Harry Born and that he is also known as -‘'Red" Born. They also thought lie might be H. B. McDowell, Who is suspicioned of complicity in the auto stealing. McDowell, according fb -Born, is the other man who •came here with him and who was not arrested. - About three weeks ago. a Lafaycttcireai estate (tailor by the name of Brian hough* a .Ford car .of Granger. - He drove through Rensselaer on his way to Lafayette, Mo-pjt-ing here for repairs. He became 1 alarmed after learning the Grangers were under suspicion and took the car back ml turned it •over .to them, presumably getting his money back. The plot deepens with each .day’s digging and Mr. Garvey says that there will be some sensational developments before they are finished with their investigation.