Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — STOLEN AUTOS RECOVERED [ARTICLE]

STOLEN AUTOS RECOVERED

Chicago Thieves Disposed of Several Cars at Medaryville. Al Guild of Guild & Anderson, the Medaryville stone road contractors, has been made the victim of Chicago automobile thieves, it is said, and will lose In the neighborhood of SI,OOO on cars that he had purchased from them and resold. Sheriff McColly of this county, with others, has been working on the case and as near as The Democrat Can gather the facts at thia three cars have already been identified as having been stolen and Mr. Guild has some four or five others on hand, which it is presumed were stolen. He stopped payment on a check he had given the Chicago parties for these latter cars, some $1,200, and therefore only stands to lose on the first lot of cars he bought of them. It appears that a man by the name of Zimmerman —we are unable to learn his Christian name—who at one time resided in Medaryville but who had later served on the Chicago police force, had driven out several second-hand cars from Chicago and sold them in about Medaryville. Guild met him and Zimmerman informed Guild that he could sell him second-hand cars so that he could make some good money on them. Guild took hold of the matter and bought five cars at S3OO each, securing bills of sale with each car. /fte sold these in Lafayette at $325 each, it is said, and went back to Chicago the last of the week and bought five more cars, again securing bills of sale with each car. It was on these latter cars that Guild stopped payment of a check given after he had learned that the cars had probably been stolen.

Guild claims to be entirely innocent in the matter and Zimmerman, the man at the Chicago end of the line, is said to have skippet out after he found that the gam* was upon Thursday Samuel Grier of 4100 West Madison street, Chicago, who had also sold Guild some cars, telephoned Guild from Remington for the latter to send him $lO. Guild at once notified Sheriff McColly and told him- to go to Remington and arrest Grier. Sheriff McColly went over there but found that Grier had left the car, a Buick Six, at Remington and gone on. A couple of detectives were expected down from Chicago yesterday to identify this car as having been stolen there.