Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20
AGED TIRE THIEF AN
OLD SCHOOL YECG
SAY AURORA COPS
CAPTURED WITH
AUTOMOBILE BANDITS VETE-
RAN SAFEBlOWER CALLS
SELF BUM--HAD GUN.

'bSepl w H''ltl' 49,, bIlIbll, inc VIM q
haired old man run TO earth Thurs
day with three robbers at Kaneytlle
by rural police ANA farmers who
fought the bandits whit shotguns has
more than becoming modesty. the
police assert, IN describing himself as
"a mere tramp who had been given a
lift by the automobile bandits" The
criminal records viii disclose, they
say, thatWheeler is an old safcbuwel.
He was wearing gun too, when cap,
tured His legs are all Scared, appar.
emily from old bullet wounds.
Questioned by Wrz.
Wheeler was brought to Aurora yes
terday afternoon by the three other
prisoners and was questioned by chief
of eDtectiycs Wirz while he was being
measured for Bertllon records at pc.
lice headquarters
What do you bulls keep insisting
that I'm a bandit for when I'm nuth.
ing but an ordinary bum ?" Wheeler
demanded of WrZ
outside OF the fact that YOU had
."S Caliber gun in your pocket when
arrested ana that your legs are GOV
cred with sears left by bullet wounds.
YOU might pass for bum" Wirz re.
piled.
Its none of your business abont
the gun and the scars
We'll. what were YOU carrying tie
gun for"
It's none of your business abost
the gun I'm only bum and a sec
ton hand when | work
Taken to Sycamore Jail.
The tire" men captured with
Wheeler, Frank krcugcr. 80. lli3
Fourteenth place, Chicago. Harold
Toomey, "a ll2n West Fifteenth
street, Chicago ana John Trainer. 70.
il30 Wabash avenue, Chicago. we're
taken last nigh, TO the Dckalb County
jail to Sycamore, The robbery which
resulted In their pursuit and captdro
was committed at Somonauk. wis h
Is partly in La Sale County. The
men stole $500 worth of tires from the
Breunig q Dolder garage.
All of the robbers except the IA.
triarch, Wheeler, were wounded in
their battle with the farmers. but viii
recover, although more or less pep.
pered with shot
Toomey has Just got out of Jail in
Chicago, where he was held under
$500 bonds on a charge of completely
in murder, when he became inyOlv-
ed In Thursdays robbery and fghr.
The men were brought 10 Aurora
police Headquarters late yesterday
afternoon, Trainor. all bandagcd IN.
coming from the st Charles Hospital.
The others had been at the county
Jail at Geneva
Measured Up for Records.
The -four men were measured by
Detective Wiz. All but Wheeler adj.
mitted hey had police records in chi.
cage.
They got mo for the Marschund
murder in Chicago Toomey told
Sheriff Claude Poole, nut doa't
know anything about the job. Nv
sister furnished $1,000 bail for mo
wednesday when was held to the
sraHi jury. The bulls got me wrong
on that job, 1t won't do YOU any good
TO ask me any questions abou this
miXup, because | won't talk"
my Mug on Record"
Nhen Irainor was taken into the
Bertillon room he told Wirz it was
a waste OF time to measure and photo.
graph him "You'l find my mug at
the detective bureau in Chicago If
You want it," he said
krcuger who is now believed nv
the police to be wanted for violation
OF Joliet pentcntiary parole, re-.
fused to talk, He was a suspoct in
the recent shooting of a detective in
Chicago.
II have always been scctio,
hand" Wheeler said, but have nor
worked 81 ray trade for about three
ears | left Chicago on a freigh,
train Wednesday and got of at some
little town 1t was early in the morn.
ing and raining when | saw an auto
mobile coming along. asked tha
driver for lift and he told me TO pet
IN. soon after that the shooting
started
where did you get in the au,o.
mobile?" Wirz interrupted
That's none of your business"
Wheeler replied
What were YOU carrying the gun
for?'
And that is none Of your business"
you answer the description of ono
OF the men who robbed a garage in
Plano several weeks ago"
"Im Only Bum
"Cut out the wise stuff. I'm only
bum"
The photographs and Bcrtillon
measurements OF the four men were
sent TO the bureau of Identification in
Chicago. Wirz has asked for com.
plete records of the mon.
Trainor. according to the police, IL