Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-17
MAN CHARGED WITH
RUNNING DOWN LAD
WITH CAR, CAUGHT
]. N. Redding Aids With Ap-
prehension- aiken to
Cities Today,
AUTO THIEVES TELL
OF SEVERAL CRIMES
Third Man Arrested as Re
suit of Confessions this
. Morning, I,

Coming to Grand Forks to take two
auto thieves into custody, F. w.
Brunskill and ]. A. Weare Minneap-
oils detectives today placed under ar
rest Nelson Bender, charged with first
degree manslaughter.
Bender, the detectives claimed ran
down and killed on July I33;, Theodore
Meyers. is year old Minneapolis boy,
residing at 915 Chicago avenue. The
lad was riding his bicycle and was
thrown violently to the pavement and
dragged over $50 feet: A mail man /,
witnessed the accident and declared /
that Bender dragged the boy from be-
meath the machine and laid him on
the sidewalk. and then dashed away in
his car. The boy was picked up and
taken to a hospital but he died4Within
short time. s., ifpcc gsss -
The mail man furnished the Tdetec-
tives with a good description Of the
man and the machine, Chalmers,
and net was thrown out over the
o'clock last night Bender drove his
Chalmers machine into the Read ga
rage, corner of Fourth street and
Bruce avenue, and registered under
the name Of Johnson. ]. N. Redding,
assistant garage manager, notified
D0Sk sergeant William schuyler THIS
morning that the machine wanted by
the Minneapolis authorities@SsassiieF HERE
and the two detectives Immediately
took possession. Bender was arrested
4 a, short time after and this morning,
4 admitted running over the Minneapo-
lis lad but declared That If WIS pareiy
laccidental. l.4,,a. 7 ~ 81
Enroute Home. isl<sz..-- Ii. s-5..
Bender was enroute to his home in
Il ISankatohewan, Canada, and was@ac-
companied by a Minneapolis woman
| The woman was sent home from here
and Bender was lodged in the city
bastile until this noon, when he peace
ably departed for the cities in COM
pany with the detectives. The officers
declare that a first degree manslaugh-
ter charge has been lodged against
him.
Made Two Hauls.
The visit Of the Minneapolis sleuths
to Grand Forks also brought an end
to the wholesale thefts of automobiles
in the Twin Cities, according, to the
statements Of the officials. This morn
ing, George A. Slagle and Carl Will
lam Gessler, two men taken into Gus
tody by Grand Forks police on a
complaint issued by the Minneapolis
chief of police. confessed to stealing
at least six automobiles in st. Paul
llS AldCullo Drought TO lfranO FORKS
by the two men was stolen last week
from st. Paul
1.-THE two detectives conducted an
Investigation and upon the confession
of the two men this morning, a third
man, also a member Of the party, was
arrested in st. Paul today. The prison
ers will be turned over to the st. Paul
police tonight
The arrest Of the two men was also
the result Of the vigilance of j. N.
Redding Of the Read garage, who no.
titled the officials that the car wanted
by the Twin City police had been stor-
ed in his place Of business. The Off
4 1cers in the city today commended MIR.
4 Redding for his aid, as they believe
that the career Of a trio of some Of
the most daring car thieves in the
northwest has been ended A dozen
or more thefts will probably be fast
ened onto the two men after a, further
investigation, the detectives believe.
Prominent Detectives.
The Minneapolis plain clothes men
are prominent figures in detective cir
/ cles and were the two men who
brought back Frank McCool and Joe
Redenpaugh, who recently figured in
!, the famous Dunn murder case and
. who were convicted OF two murders.
Their work had much to do with the
solution Of the famous criminal case
which for several weeks baffied some
Of the shrewdest police officials in the
country , =! 1Tt