The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-25
Kansas Auto Supply Company
Loses 81, 700 Car.
Young Man Named Ferguson
Accused of Theft.
MADE GOODHIS ESCAPE
Supposed That He Started for
Kansas City.
Roads Are Bad and Travel Is
Difficult.

An automobile of the Jackson type,
worth seventeen hundred dollars, was
stolen on Saturday night from the gar
age of the Kansas Auto and supply
company 526 and 52S Quincy street.
new concern which has only been In
business in this city since the begin
ming of last week. A young man named
Glenn Ferguson, or Glenn Meyers. Is ac-
cused of the theft. A warrant mas peen
issued for his arrest He made gooo
his escape with the machine ana from
the direction he started IT is DeneVeu
that he has gone to Kansas city with
It Droyided he was able to run 1t that
far with the roads in the condltlon
that they are in now. John M. WlIker-
son, the sheriff, started this morning
with a team on the Tecumsen Ioau
with the hope of being able to pick up
the trail of the stolen auto and make
sure that the thief was bound for ran
sas City. If he finds evidence that TINS
was the route taken by Meyers, ne VIII
take the train on and assist detectives
there who have already been notlneo'
In running down the thief and the ma
. chine he purloired.
W. E. Mallory, E. P. Hotchklss anu
J. NJ McCammon are members or the
kansas Auto and Supply company
which opened up the garage here last
week. Mr. Mallory came from Esbon,
Kan. where he had garage. he
brought with him two or three autos
of the Jackson type. The one, wnlcn
was stolen, was MODEL u, d Two
cylinder machine, with red body ana
a black top 1t is valued at $l,7OO
Glenn Ferguson, or Meyers, worked
for a time at the garage operated py
Mr.. Cox at No. 206 West Sixth avenue.
Mr. Cox quit running this place some
weeks ago and it is said that some au-
tomobile owners who did business with
him would like to know of his where
abouts.
since the opening of the new garage
Ferguson, or Meyers, has been hang
ing around the place. Because of his
actions he had been closely watched
by those working in the garage. Inc
place was closed and locked UP ABOUT
IL o'clock on Saturday night.
The thief got in by opening a tran
som in the top of one of the large
windows in the rear OF the sar
ventilating the place when it got full
of smoke He had the temer1ty to
light the large arc burner in the front
of the store. Then he tapped tns
tanks of the half dozen automoblles
in the garage for all the gasoline
which was in them and filled up the
tank of the fine big machine which
He opened the front doors and
drove out with the. car He was seen
to leave the place rev minutes
after IL o'clock by several OF the
workers in the livery stables around
the locality. Next he drove the car
around to restaurant on lower Kan
nas avenue where he INDUCED In
midnight lunch and remarked to some |
folks around the place that he was
bound for Kansas City for some auto |
mobile supplies for the new garage. He
started east from Kansas avenue ana
that was the last seen OF MIN.
The country roads are exceedingly |
rough now and even heavy with mud |
In many places. Mr.. Mallory tried to !
follow the thief out on the Tecumseh |
road with another machine yesterday |
but found the going too rough for |
anyone who was careful of machine. |
but a machine of the type that was |
stolen could make them all right II |
driven with the recklessness that |
man who was stealing one might
As soon as Sheriff Wilkerson learn |
ed of the theft this morning he took
Immediate steps to try and apprehend
the thief He callel up w. E. Brown,
who runs a detective agency in KAN
sas City and who has met with con- |
siderable success in locating criminals !
that have fled from Topeka to Kansas
City, to round up the garages in that |
town and look for the stolen machine
and also the thief.
Mr.. Wilkerson then started with a |
team to pick up the autos trail If
possible. This ought not to be hard |
work in viey of the condition of the |
roads 1t is possible that. because of
the bad roads, Ferguson was not able
to reach his destination and is under