Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1920 — ALLEGED AUTO THIEVES NABBED AT REMINGTON [ARTICLE]

ALLEGED AUTO THIEVES NABBED AT REMINGTON

Edward McKee, 24, and Bert Phillips, 19, were lodged in jail nere Thursday afternoon by Sheriff Wood worth, following their arrest at Remington by Marshal Geier on the charge of having a stolen automobile in their possession. The arrest of the youths' followed a telephonic conference between Marshal Geier and Sheriff Woodworth. The suspicions of the Remington officer were aroused by William Bahler, a. Remington garage man, who informed the officer that the boys had offered to trade him some storage batteries for some gasoline. Following a conversation with Sheriff Wbodworth, Marshal Geier’s suspicions were further confirmed upon learning that the boys had made a similar proposal to N. C. Shafer, owner of the Main garage in this city, offering tp trade a jack and pump for gasoline. The boys spent the night in Remington and had planned to leave that place Thursday morning. Sheriff Woodworth notified a Cb* cago detective agency following the arrest- of the boys and officers from that city came here Thursday night by automobile and took the lads to Chicago, where they will answer to the charges of having stolen the automobile. When questioned the young men stated that they were standing at the corner of Van Buren and Clark streets in Chicago Tuesday evening when a stranger approached them and asked them if they would help him start his car as he had been trying to do so without any success and, according to the young men, they got in the car, started it and drove around the block, finding upon their return that the stranger had disappeared. They stated that they waited until midnight for his return, after which they decided to take the car and go to Terre Haute and that they were on their way to that city when arrested. . . Little credence is placed in their story by the officers and it is probable that quick justice will be meted out to them.- . . • The car which they had m their possession was a Chevrolet.