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DEKALB MANJ*IN TROUBLEIs Arrested In Aurora In Connection With Train Robberies.• -tJIS ONE OF GANGII1tai1JAurora Beacon News: Four mensaid io la members of an organized v hand of burglars and freight car h robbers, wen* arrested by the Au l .ora police yesterday afternoon. « Fiitetu others, including several awomen, were taken to headquarters j t lot questioning, but were released The four under arrest are: . j tlErwin “Brownie” Vance, 26, toriginally of Piano, now' of 281 lt;South Lake street, held on a charge rof ourglaiy and larceny.Lee Gilbert, 28, formerly of De-Kail). 133% South River street, also held on a Uprglary and larcenycharge. „ *Herbert “Curley” Kreitz, 26, 118 North River street, charged with receiving stolen pioperty.Gien “Pat” Doner, 28, Viewstreet, charged with receiving stol en property.Loot valued at Thousands.Merchandise consisting of men’s and womens clothing, silk hose!and sox, 15 bolts Of cloth, hun-jdreds ot pairs of shoes, automobile j tires, nanometers, the value ot j .which runs into several thousands1 oi uoiiaiT, has been stolen from I Chicago A' Northwestern and Burlington i ail road freight cars during1: the hist six weeks. Property stol-j tn troin liu* former railroad, was L taken from cars at Geneva, LaFox,and Cortland. The Burlington cars were robbed during the same period, at various points on the main!line and Savanna blanches. jVance, arrested about two years1ago and found guilty of serving as|* a fence for automobiles stolen inj* ^Aurora and surrounding towns, be-j( came implicated by many gifts ol'j* clothing made to his wife. Night gowns, aprons and shoes, identified as stolen goods, were recovered by11the police when they arrested].]Vance yesterdays V- VpFind Stolen Property.More than a dozen boxes ofj* ‘linen’s silk socks, identified as part 1 of a shipment stolen from Chicago 1 Northwestern cars, were found;at Gilbert’s rooming place, 133%!} South River street. More than 20N pairs of men’s and women’s shoesp were also taken by the police at * M his room. , *Countless pairs of new shoes,also identified as stolen from)* freight cars, and several bolts of dress goods, found to be part of a shipment consigned to the Eade Garrm nt factory, Aurora, were confiscated at Kreitz* place, 118 North River street.Doner admitted to receiving several paiis of shoes from Gilbert.i / ft •He said that he had sold some of _ them, and took the police to hisjj 1 vaiious “customers” where th* shoes were found.Vance and Gilbert both main-' tained ample protection with fire' arms in their rooms. An automatic .44 calibre revolver was found at Vance’s f oorn, while Gilbert had I 1 a .32 calibre automatic. 1While a comparatively small 'quantity of tin* stolen metchandise has been lecovered, as much of it must have been disposed of to those who are willing to take a I j chance with rock bed bargains, enough has been confiscated and identified by Chief of Police Frank Michels, Detective Clarence Anderson, Patrolman Clinton Dickerson and Special Agent O. H. Abbott., of ’ the Burlington railroad, to warrant ‘holding the lour men. They will be given a hearing befoie Justice* r James Galvin within the next 24 hours.ai-Heii- *:Inn3i-vIi-i-nrs
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DeKalb Daily Chronicle
Dekalb, Illinois, US
Thu, Jun 05, 1924
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