Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1917 — ARREST RANSOMER OF AFFECTIONATE COUPLES [ARTICLE]

ARREST RANSOMER OF AFFECTIONATE COUPLES

Los Angeles—After several affectionate young couples In automobiles had been arrested on the foothill boulevard and then released by their captor for considerations of $lO each, the police began wondering who was making the “arrests.” So, to find put, two officers, one of them dressed as a woman, werit motoring through that section and found Sam Freeman, a selfappointed deputy sheriff, in .ambush for them. After the two bona fide officers were “arrested,” they in turn. arrested Freeman and charged him with extortion. A