Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1909 — Gay Young Autoists Prove To Be Automobile Thieves. [ARTICLE]

Gay Young Autoists Prove To Be Automobile Thieves.

Two young men appeared at Medaryville recently with a large automobile and they created a great stir in that town by the freedom with which they took young people out riding. Their escapades attracted a great deal of attention, and the Advertiser of that town related how they had almost killed a party of seven young men by the c?r skidding into a ditch as they were coming back from Winamac. At that time they were presumed to be the owners of the machine and they were admitted into the best homes and every one accepted their story that they were visiting at a home in th§ country, and the family with whom they were staying accepted the story that they were agents for the machine. An attorney by the name of Burson, of Winamac, however, saw an advertisement in a Chicago newspaper, offering a reward of SIOO for the return of a stolen machine and he made up his mind that the young men who were cutting such a dash at Medaryville were the thieves. So he went out to the place they were staying and after querrying them caused their arrest and they confessed to having taken the car. They agreed to take the car to Winamac and were very jolly about the matter. After arriving there Mr. Burson and the man who had accompanied him went out in the back part of the garage to wash their hands and while they were gone the two young fellows boarded a train and made their get-away. Mr. Burson called the owner of the machine down from -Chicago and was given a reward of SIOO for its return. The owner brought a detective with him and they were furnished a description of the young men and it is probable they will be apprehended.