Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1915 — Purdue Educator’s Auto Stolen From Near Church. [ARTICLE]

Purdue Educator’s Auto Stolen From Near Church.

Lafayette, Ind., Juno 20.^—While Rrof. George I. Christie, head of the department of agricultural extension at Purdue University, and his family were attending services at the Central Presbyterian church his automobile was stolen. The machine had Indiana license No. 1 0,024. The factory number was 32,186. It was a five-passenger touring car, valued at $1,200. Up to a late hour the police had no clew to the thief. All towns within a radius of 100 miles of Lafayette have been notified to watch for the thief. Later—Jack Foster and Edward Poling, two Lafayette lads, were caught by the police at Pekin, 111., Monday night. They had driven to Kankakee Sunday, remaining there all night. Departing next morning they took Ray Thompson, a bell boy at the hotel, with them. In crossing the railroad tracks at Champaign, 111., they lost control of the car and it crashed into a telegraph pole, breaking the car. The Lafayette boys skidooed, and Thompson, whose suspicions W’ere then aroused, gave the police a tip and the boys were captured at Pekin, being found in a freight car in which they had stolen a ride from Champaign.