Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1915 — Young Auto Thieves Captured at Pekin, III. [ARTICLE]

Young Auto Thieves Captured at Pekin, III.

The automobile belonging to Prof. G. I. Christie, of Purdue university, ■which was stolen from in front of the Central Presbyterian church in Lafayette Sunday morning, was recovered (Monday at Unban®, 111., and the thieves were taken from a freight at Pekm. The information leading to the capture of the boys was received from a boy they picked up in Kankakee. While driving across a railroad track dn Champaign, the driver lost control of the machine and it ran into a post. The boys then abandoned it and got. away on a freight.’ Thompson, the Kankakee boy, was caught and told what he knew of the theft The other boys were Jack Footer and Edward Polling, both of Lafayette. A third boy, said to be William Cummings of La/fayette, was said by the boys captured to be in the crowd but he made his escape.