The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-23
DORIS SEDAN
LOOKS GOOD TO
STRING BUTCHERS
CLAIM LATTER TRIED TO MAKE
AWAY WITH LOCAL MANS
AUTOMOBILE

Ace Dcrr came very nearly having
to walk and while walking wonder
where his Ford Sedan had gone to-,
because of the fact taht Thursday af-
ternoon while he and Merit Eaves and
Fuller Dorr were digging bait, after
having left the formers Ford Sedan
standing alongside of the road, some
one tried to make away with it and
but for the timely arrival of the three
bait diggers back on the scene, the
auto might have new owner by this
time and Ace could have been vainly
offering a reward for the return of
his stolen buggy.
Three men, Italians, giving their
names as Sam Terranavo, Tomassi
Bodalsamut and Sam Candella, claim
ing Grand Rapids as their home, were
picked up and held by Eaves and
Dorr, while Fuller Dorr was sent for
Marshal Meginley who placed the
men under arrest, charged with at
tempting to steal an automobile. The
men claim that they had nothing to
do with it and that they saw another
man get out of the car and beat it.
Dorr and his son and Mert Eaves
had decided on going fishing and went
on the winding State road west of the
Richardson silk mill, where they
stopped the car and went down over
the hill to a little creek to dig bait.
They heard the motor of the Ford
start up and made race for the ma
chine expecting that some friends had
followed them and were going to pull
off practical joke. When they reach
ed the place they saw one of the IGal-
ians driving the car away, while the
other two who were in a Ford with a
small truck body on it stood by ap-
parently ready to help in the getaway
just as soon as the other fellow got
fairly we'll started with his new
Sedan. The local men yelled at the
fellow in the Sedan and he became
confused and ran the machine into a
clay bank, demolishing a wheel and
otherwise damaging it. Eaves made
some sort Of a reputation for himself
in running the fellow down when he
abondened the car and Eaves and
Dorr then held the fellows as prison
ers of war while they dispatched
DORIS son, Fuller, for Marshal Me-
ginley.
The men were arraigned at once be-
fore Justice Lapham and placed in
the county jail and on Tuesday they
were again brought to this city and
given hearing at which Dorr, Eaves,
Fuller Dorr, Albert Castle, Mrs.
Frank Simons and Arthur Clingen-
smith were sworn in as witnesses for
the people and they were then taken
back to Ionia and will appear here
again for continuation of the hear
ing next Monday, July 28, at 10 o'clock
at which time the reading af the tes-
timony will take place. Unless the
men change their plea of not guilty
they will be returned to the county
Jail to await trial in the next term of
the circuit court.
The thre men claim that they were
engaged in buying calves and ether
meat throughout the country and
taking it to Grand Rapids where they
sold it. They claim that as they
came along the road and neared the
standing automobile they saw a man
trying to start the machine up and
that when he was discovered and
scared away he ran across a field
and made good in his getaway and
that because of the fact that they
happened to be right there at the
time, the local men picked them up
as the transgressors.
1t is claimed that they had an extra
set of license plates with them at
the time they were caught and taken
into custody. Three other Italians
from Grand Rapids were up here at
the hearing, Tuesday and they made
a satisfactory settlement with Mr..
Dorr for the damage done to his car.
1t is thought by some that perhaps
the three men caught were in the en-
ploy of the three men who came up
Tuesday and that after the first three
stole car the other three disposed
Of it. This is only a sppposition of
the part of some people, but if it is
true the chances are that dangerous
set of auto thieves may have been
rounded up.