The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-05-15
Ninteenth Car Alleged To-
Have Been Taken By Grob
and Associates Now In
Possession of Police.
INNOCENT BUYERS LOSERS
Fugitive Warrant for GrOb Charges
Theft of Two Automobiles In chica.
go and It Is Expected That Chicago
Men VIII Be Arrested Soon.

Nineteen automobiles, all of them al
legged to have been stolen in Chicago
and brought to KeDosha to be sold or
traded, were charged up against the
account Of Peter Grob, the Kenosha
man arrested last Saturday and held
by the police on the claim that he had
been conducting fence, for the dis
posal Of automobiles stolen in Chicago.
1t is declared that every one of these
automobiles have been identified as
stolen in Chicago and the Kenosha
police under the lead of Chief o Hare
and Secretardy Meissner, were still
searching for more cars and Meissner
declared this morning that he believed
that twenty-five cars would be re-
turned to their owners as result of
the arrest of Grob in Kenosha.
Meantime fugitive warrant had
hsen sworn OFT in the Municipal Court
4 a ek rges Grob wisl ard
ceny in Cook county, illinois. The
specific offenses alleged are the theft
of a Chandler roadster belonging to
William Goldberg of Chicago on No.
vember goth, 1918 and The theft of a
Dodge touring car belonging to Marx
Krause of Chicago on April 18th last.
The police declare that these cars were
driven from Chicago to Kenosha.
Grob still reclines to make any state
ment to the police officers and in ans
wer to all questions put to him by the
Chief and other members of the force
he has just one answer "See my at
torneysn Detectives from Chicago
were said TO have "covered'' men in
that city who are alleged to have been
connected with Grob in the wholesale
operations in connection with the theft
and sale of the automobiles. The police
asserted that automobiles had been
found in many places in Ke~ osha. The
nineteenth car found by the. police was
a new 1919 Buick which is alleged to
have been taken from Chicago within
the last few weeks. The police said
that the full facts in regard to the
case could not be made public until
after the arrest of men in Chicago
who are declared to have been asso-
ciated with Grob.
It is known that three Kenosha men
have suffered as a result of the opera
tions Of the party. j. D. Rosenblum
has turned over to the police a Ford
automobile which he secured from Grob
in trade. James Nelson, agent for
Armour and Company, has also turned
over an automobile which the police
allege was stolen and which was trans
ferred to Nelson by Grob, and the
Malmgreen meat market is said to have
sustained financial loss In the neigh
borhood of one thousand dollars on &C
count of dealings with Grob. None of
these men had any idea of the rela-
tions of Grob with the Chicago men
and all of them made trades or pur-
chases with Grob in good faith.
Officials of the Union Linen Supply
Company of Chicago by whom Groh
was employed, came to Kenosha today
in an effort to get possession of the
property of the company here and
appoint man to take care of the
business pending further development
in the Grob case.
The police have notified the officials
of the company that nothing in the
possession of Grob will be turned over
until after some court action has
been taken.
Possibility of other charges against
Grob came to light when the police de-
clared this afternoon that a search Of
the warehouse here mad brought to
light vast amount of linen which is
alleged to have been taken from the
Union Supply Company in Chicago. Of
ficials of the company told the police
that Grob did not get this stuff through
regular channels. The police placed
the value of the linen at more than
$4,000.