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STANDARD OILPOLICE ARRESTRing Which Stole Thousands of Pounds of Brass and Copper, Broken UpWHITING. 1 lid., Jun.. 3.—Stau-; Oil police, undor the directionjo:' pin 111 chief of polio- Charles J Fitzgerald. and with the assistance of Dr. O. 10. Bransky, general plant superintendent, and Michael .Hannon, superintendent of transport:!. -(lion iifier a year's investigation, yesterday rounded up four employes and one Whiting- junk dealer, who operating as a ring, stole thousands j of pounds of brass and copper fromi he plant.The four employes of the Standard | Oil company, now under suspension, after 'wyig rounded up. confessed ill the office of Deputy Prosecutor J. Scot: Higgins. The junk dealer, j however, would not talk. He is ex-j pec ted to make a confession soon. The other four have implicated him j in the ring.Those under arrest arc: SamGur«-vilz. age 31. ‘lid; Fisehrupp avenue. Whiting-, junk dealer; out on a $3,00n real estate bond; Joseph Freesa, age 3.1, 304 Berry avenue, Whiting, craneman at the plant,j locked in the city jail; Claude Edmonds. age 30. Sim .Soli rage. avenue. Whiting. fireman at the plant, locked in the city jail: Robert. Mac-Loud. age 3!*, 870 Eric street, iTam-montl. craneman at the plant, out on 8300 cash bond; Glenn Baldwin, age 31. 100 Indiana, boulevard. Whiting, craneman at the plant, locked in I he city jail.Gurevitz is charged with receiving stolen property. Edmonds and Froesa. arc charged with grand lar-cony, while .MacLoud and Baldwin are charged with petit larceny.Preliminary hearings arc set. forthe Whiling city court tomorrowafternoon before Judge Charles S.\ Perel. All five men will probably(Continued on vago six)i 1
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Whiting Evening Times
Whiting, Indiana, US
Tue, Jun 03, 1930
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