Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1918 — MEDARYVILLE MAN ASKED TO EXPLAIN IN CHICAGO COURT [ARTICLE]

MEDARYVILLE MAN ASKED TO EXPLAIN IN CHICAGO COURT

Every little auto breathed more freely today. Flivvers grinned at limousines, and limousines ndade the world safe for democracy by grinning back. Everywhere in the traffic world rejoicing was apparent It beS’ns to be possible for an auto to el safe when alone on the streets of Chicago. Kidnapers of fair young machines, kidnapers whose cases have been held over on the dockets of various courts for months, kidnapers whose •long immunity from justice have encouraged other bandits to elope with other machines, commenced to meet with stern and rapid justice in the court of Judge Robert M. Crowe in the Criminal court. It was the first session of the new automobile thievs’ court.

A mayor thief and his thieving aids were first on the call. Mel Guild, mayor of Medaryville, Ind., Harry Raymond of a Chicago postal substation, and Harry M. Farrell, Elmer Farmer and Karl Rohrer were up for stealing “about two dozen* autos in Chicago and shipping them to Indiana for sale. Karl Rohrer pleaded guilty. He will figure as a witness for the state in the trial of the other four. “You realize that your plea of guilty renders you liable to a term of from one to five years in jail and a fine of from $1 to s3,ooo’”’ the judge asked Rohrer. Rohrer answered in the affirmative. Testimony in the case will be heard late today. Farmer is now in the penitentiary for automobile theft. Attorneys for the other three entered a bill of particulars and asked for separate trials for each of the three.