The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-07-31
fEEGER AUTO
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stranger here Saturday night. Thomas,
claiming to have sore throat, has
refused to talk.
| The elder man said he and his COM
panion came into Richmond Saturday
afternoon with considerable money,
having sold horse and buggy which
! they had been driving from Columbus,
Ohio to a man east of the city. He
refused to say who the purchaser was
or how near the city he lived He also
declined to state how they came into
possession Of the buggy.
Claims He Bought Car
Saturday night he says, he and
Thomas made friends with a stranger
in saloon, near the heart Of the city.
/ This stranger told them he would sell
them an automobile for $3.50, which
proposition, Whipple claims to have
accepted He said he and Thomas
waited on a corner, which he was I'M
able to locate being unfamiliar with
the city,an shortly, sometime after
midnight, their new-found friend de-
livered the car to them,
According to Whipple's story, he
and Thomas drove to point west Of
the city where they slept until after
daybreak, before resuming their jour.
ney westward. They did not take the
trouble even to remove the license
plates from the machine.
In addition Whipple states he is
the father of a motion picture star, a
young woman who is drawing the
princely salary of $1,000 for her ap-
pearances on the screen. He asserts
that her likeness is familiar to Rich
mond patrons of the movie houses.
His other daughter is q music teacher
in the east Other than this he vouch-
ed no information concerning his life
or connections.
Police, however, are inclined to
doubt Whipple's version Of the story,
and believe that the two men stole the
Feeger machine outright. They base
their opinion on the fact that burnt
matches were found at the doors of
several other garages in the vicinity
Of the Feeger home, South Seventh
and C streets, and especially about
the entrance to the garage at the rear
of Henry H. Pardieck's home, $40
South Seventh street.
Neiehbor Hears Noise
Mrs. Mary Bruno, SIS South c street
said she heard what she believed to
be four men, taking the machine from
the garage about o'clock Sunday
morning. She heard one of them say,
We're off," as the car started down
the alley In view of the fact that
the Rev. Feeger is often called to the
bedside of sick Pensioners at all
times of the night, she said she gave
little thohght to the movement in the
alley, until she learned that the ma
chine had been stolen.
The auto was pushed from the gar
age and down the alley before the en-
CINE was started The garage door
was lifted off the running channel
Look for Third Man
Police are today investigating the
relation of the supposed third man to
the case. Whipple gave them a de-
scription of the man whom he declares
sold him the car and says that he
could and would identify the stranger
If he were brought face to face with
him by the police.
Although not giving full credance to
Whipple's story, the police say the
capture of this third person, if there
be such, may solve the mystery sur
the disappearance of the
machine which was stolen from Mar
Gus Sostmeyer, earlier in the season.
Beyond slight damage to the radiat-
or the Feeger machine, which was a
gift Of the congregation in apprecia-
ton of the services of the pastor, was
in good condition. The Rev. Mr. Fee
ger had just had the machine thor
oughly overhauled and added new
equipment preparatory to making q
vacation trip and had expected to
star this morning.
France Is stimulating attention to