Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1916 — John Summers Arrested for Joy Riding at Lafayette. [ARTICLE]

John Summers Arrested for Joy Riding at Lafayette.

With three white women under arrest, ’ Constable B. W. Orbegust on Wednesday night was scouring the city for two negroes and a white man wanted for joy riding in Mayor Thos. Bauer’s automobile without the owner’s consent. Those arrested were Magdalena Haaga, Conlrena Collins and Mrs. Lulu Zust, who is said to have been a domestic at the city executive’s home at one time. The men sought were Ed Davis, n.gor chauffeur for Mr. Bauer, Matthew Russell, another negro, and John Summers, Columbia street saloon keeper. Affidavits charging the use of a m,otor vehicle without the owner’s consent were filed against the sextet in Justice of the Peace Tankersley’s court late Wednesday afternoon, and the arrests followed. It is said that Davis, in company with the Collins girl, and Summers, accompanied by Mrs. Zust, “borrowed” the mayor’s Haynes automobile while the executive was out of the city recently, and motored to Michigan City, where they spent one night and returned the next day. The other pair are alleged to have participated in other joy rides in the mayor’s automobile. Davis was discharged when it was discovered that the machine had been used and damaged. It is probable that no hearing will be held until all the parties are under arrest, it was said Wednesday Jght.—Lafayette Journal.