New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-12-11
AUTO THIEF SHOWS
EXCELLENT TASTE
CHOOSES ONE OF THE EEsT TO
BE HAD HERE. MAKES a
CLEAN GETAWAY
EARLY HOURS KEPT BY DOCTOR
MAKES HIM EASY VICTIM
OF ..RusTLERs,

When DR.. George b. Weiser got
up last Friday morning his wife told
him that the garage door vas open and
he Immediately ventured the remark
that someone must have entered the
garage during the night and stolen
his car. He dressed in hurry and
went to TIE garage where he found his
suspicious verified. The car was gone
and an inspection of the premises prox-
innate to the garage failed to locate It.
Took Their Time
According to the Doctor the thief
or thieves went at the job methodically
and deliberately and did not seem to
be in big hurry to get thru with it.
There is conclusive proof that they had
the electric light turned on, because
the one light was hung on hook in
a different fashion than the Doctor
is in the habit Of hanging it up. They
were not satisfied with taking the car.
but appropriated the chains which were
lying on a bench They also Inspected
the gasoline tank and found that there
wasn't enough gasoline in the car to-
take them any distance, so they located
an old tank which had not been used
for about two years, from which they
secured enough gasoline for their i'm
mediate needs, because the can which
they used to transfer the gasoline from
the tank to the car was left nearly
half full. They also took can Of
lubricating oil.
No Trace Found
The police and sheriff were ird-e
mediately notified. They got on the
job at once. but have so far been unable
to locate the car or to obtain any clue
which might lead to it's return. No
doubt the thieves had a handicap of
several hours and by this time the,
beautiful maroon of the doctors car
is probably a shiny new black in some
faraway city.
The car stolen was an Oldsmobile4
roadster which the doctor had purchased
about six months ago. It was con-,
servatively worth 100000 at the time
of the theft. The doctor put the car
into his garage as usual Thursday night
and it was there yet at 10 o'clock in
the evening because he saw it there.
He had not locked the garage on the
theory that if anyone wanted to stx.,a
the car he would be able to pet into
the garage even if it were locaked.
Mrs. John Kuehn, neighbor, heard q
noise around the Weiser garage about.
midnight but paid very little attention.
to it, because the doctor has been i'm
the habit Of coming and going at almost.
any time of the day or night.
That same night some party or
parties got into the Fred Radtke garage
on the alley back of Washington Street
between Second and Third North Streets.
backed the car, a Buick, out of the
garage and pushed it over to Second
North Street and then to State Street
where they abandoned it in front Of
the Lutheran church. This happened
shortly after 10 o'clock in the evening
About the same time the fellows who
had stolen the Radtke car were irving
to get it started a Ford came up State
Street from the South and stopped on
posite them and Henry F. Schrader
who lives diagonally across the street
from the Lutheran church overheard
some of the conversation that took
place between these people. From what
he heard he is Of the opinion that one
of the men was back Of the steering
wheel working the starter and the
other man was pushing the ear. There.
was considerable laughing and joking
and it was nearly half past ten when
he overheard one Of them say that they
were going to get her" and shortly
afterwards the parti $ had disappeared,
leaving the Radtke car in front .of the
church where the owner found it the.
next day.
Several Suspicious Characters
Two suspicious looking fellows were
noticed all day Thursday chasing up
and down the streets with Ford oar
Two other suspicious looking fellows
were also noticed at the Hotel Hall.
They arrived Wednesday morning at
10 o'clock and stayed in their room
until the next morning at 10 o'clock
They then got up and sat around the
hotel and occasionally one would 60
out and then come back and then the
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