The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-05-11
STOLE CAR LAST THURSDAY
Farmer Who Pulled 1t Out of Ditch Gets
Tire for Trouble and Reports Case to
Sheriff-Boys Go Back to Milwau-
kee to Face Charges Today.

Henry Bauer, aged seventeen, resid-
ing at 1880 Brown street, Milwaukee,
and Adolph Wolimha, aged fourteen,
residing at 1914 Vine street, in the
same city, were in the county Jail on
Saturday night and Sunday charged
with being QUITO thieves. The two boys
just naturally tired of being "good
boys" in Milwaukee and last Satur-
day night they decided to get out of
that town and they decided to make
the trip by automobile. They picked
up a Ford roadster at the corner of
Seventeenth and Lloyd streets and
went south. This was the last heard
of the boys until last Saturday after
noon about three 'clock when they
were taken into custody by Sheriff
Stahl. The little Ford had rambled
right along all right for a good many
miles but the inexperience of the boys
In handling it finally brought them to
grief and few minutes before they
were arrested they broke a steering
knuckle and the Ford went into the
ditch along the concrete road. The
boys were hiking for town and a rail
way station when they were arrested
by the sheriff. They lost no time in
clearing their consciences by admitting
that they had taken the automobile in
Milwaukee and then went into the
" bull pen" at the county jail to await
the coming of the Milwaukee police
officers who took them back to that
city to answer charges of grand lar
ceny today. The disabled runabout is
in the sheriff's garage awaiting the
coming Of it's owner.
The boys are said to be members of
well known families in Milwaukee and
it is possible that the fact that both
are of tender age will win for them
another chance when the case comes
up in court on Tuesday morning.
The boys got out of Milwaukee just
after dark Thursday night and they
managed to get along pretty well until
they struck some bad roads in the west
end of Kenosha county on Saturday
morning. They went into ditch over
In Paris and not being able to get the
little automobile out of the ditch they
called on farmer in the neighborhood
to help them. Being a little short of
money they offered to give the farmer
new tire in exchange for the services
of his team. The farmer took the tire
and then buried to the nearest tele-
phone and notified Sheriff Stahl of the
transaction. This was just before noon
on Saturday. The sheriff sent depu-
ties over into Paris and he made a
trip out the Geneva road. He had gone
only a few miles when he found the
boys surveying the wreck of their
stolen automobile in the ditch along
the Geneva road.
"Having some troubled" the sheriff
called out to the youths. EFBet your
life we are'' one of them answered.
"What will you give us for it," The
sheriff told the boys to come along
with him and they would talk over the
proposed sale in town and the boys
came right along to the county jail.
Before they had come half way to
Kenosha they had told the sheriff all
about where they got the car and had
declared that they were ready to go
back to Milwaukee and tell the. judge
there the same story.
The car was not badly damaged and
Sheriff Stahl was able to bring it in
under its own power. It was declared
that this was the first time that the
two boys had strayed from the mar
row path.