Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1914 — Scott Chesnut in Trouble Again. [ARTICLE]

Scott Chesnut in Trouble Again.

Prosecutor Longwell was over from Brook Monday to look after the state’s interest in the case against Scott Chesnut, who was charged with the theft of County Surveyor DeVere Yeoman’s automobile Saturday night. The facts in the case, as near as The

Democrat is able to learn them, are something about as follows: Saturday evening Mr. Yeoman, while at the Central Garage, had a severe attack of indigestion and Chesnut took Yeoman's car and drove him home. Returning to the garage he got five gallons of gasoline and a grass widow of Rensselaer, it is alleged, and went out for a joy ride. As near as can be learned they went up to the Kankakee river and did not return until Sunday morning. Young Chesnut is said to have loaded up pretty well on booze and probably brought some of the fluid back with him. When near Alf Donnelly’s place, north of Rensselaer, the car went dead on him and he phoned into town for gasoline, it is said.

Mr. Yeoman in the meantime had missed the car and was making a search for Chesnut. Clifford Sumner and Russell Sage went out to the scene and drove the car in. A warrant had been sworn out against Chesnut for the theft of the car and Constable Parks finally served ! t, but when he first went to Chesnut’s room at his mother's home, Chesnut declared he would kill the constable if he made any effort to get hiai Mr. Parks is not easily scared out, but it is reported that Chesnut had him covered with a Winchester, and Parks thought it best to try other tactics. He went back to the house again later and got his man and he was arraigned before Squire Irw'n, where he gave a S3OO bond with R. D. Thompson as surety, and the case was set for hearing Monday morning. Prosecutor Longwell then decided that the larceny charge might not stick, so dismissed the case and Mr. Yeoman filed another affidavit under the special statute of 1913 making it unlawful for a person to take possession of or assume control, run, drive or operate any vehicle belonging to another without the consent and knowledge of the owner thereof, and fixing a penalty of not less than $25 nor more than SSOO, to which, may be added imprisonment of from ten days to six months. Owing to the absence of defendant’s attorney, John A. Duniap, in < hicago, the case was continued to this morning at 1 0 o’clock, the bond being fixed at SIOO with d. Thompson as surety. It is understood that Chesnut's Plea will be that Mr. Yeoman told him he could use the auto, which the latter denies. The young woman who is alleged to have beer with Chesnut has a divorce case pending in the circuit court here, which may be jeopardized to some extent by her alleged action in going out with him