The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-07-08
VANDALS STRIP
WRECKED AUTO
d-Robbers Take Every
thing Of Value from
James ThOmpson's Car.
KENOSHA A JERICHO

James Thompson of Chicago has
named Kenosha Jericho; and with rea-
son, too; for, like another man, who
went up to Jericho, he went up to Ke-
nosha;- and "behold, he fell among
thieves"
Monday afternoon Mr.. Thompson's
motor car was wrecked out along the
Wilmot road. Mr.. Thompson and his
family were so seriously injured that
they had to be taken to Salem for
medical attention. When they came
back later to pick up the pieces Of
their motor car, they found a stripped
chassis "only this and nothing more"
Everything of any value had been
spirited away-leather cushions, brass
fixtures, the motor meter, tools from
the tool box, the cut gl5ts globe on
the electrolier-all were among the
missing when their injured owner
came back to claim his own There
was left for him only the ghost Of
what had been before the accident a
new model motor car.
No Good Samaritan.
The Chicago man is furious about
his loss and his position is we'll taken.
He insists that his car, as he left it
may have been "only a pile of junk
but even SO "it was his junk; he had
bought it and paid for it with work
money and suffering. Just why it
should have been taken from him be-
cause he was too badly hurt to stand
over it with spiked club or sawed
off shotgun-this is the thing that Mr..
Thompson cannot understand, much
less approve.
The battling feature of the robbery
is the fact that it must have been com
mitted by so-called respectable people
of the tyra that ride in motor cars.
The things taken would be of little or
no value to anyone else.
Also it must have been perpetrated,
at least partially, in broad daylight
with other motorists passing as Mr.
Thompson's car was being stripped of
everything worth taking Other trav-
elers must have seen what was hap
pening but, like the priest and the
Levite in the ancient story, they
passed by on the other side" In all
the hundreds who must have witnessed
the vandalism there was no one good
samaritan to care for the interests of
a fellow-motorist who had fallen
among thieves"
Officers have been informed of the
robbery but are not at all hopeful of
recovering the loot of the motor-van-
dals. There is absolutely no clue that
they can follow that doesn't point to
any one of hundred persons or, lead
to Minnesota or Illinois.
"Things like that will always hap
pen" a deputy sheriff said today, so
long as people do not follow the code
of the road Out west they have law
of the plains. It is unwritten but
strictly enforced, not by sheriffs or
deputy sheriffs but by honor and con-
science. Something like that is needed
in the middle west to protect motor
lists. who, like Mr. Thompson, are so
badly injured in accidents as to be
unable to protect either themselves or
their property"
All that was left of Mr. Tnompson's
car-an engine. with every detachable
part missing, body stripped Of ev-
erything but the enamel and few
scratches incurred in the accident, and
wheels without tires or taps-was
shipped back to Chicago early this
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Donars and Miss
Sophia Donars Of Chicago we're the
holiday guests of Mr.. and Mrs. L.
Dombrowski, 800 Valentine street.
Mrs. F. w. Mayer and daughter,
Madeline, leave today on a boat rip to
northern Michigan. On the return trip
they will stop at Jackson, Mich, to
visit Mrs. H. Schnuckle and Mrs. A.
Daisy.
A large delegation Of Elks from
Lasalle, H., spent the morning in
specting the Kenosha Elks' home The
Lasalle lodge is planning to build a
new club house and it is planned to
have the Kenosha club as model.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Tomlinson and
son, Bert, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Drake,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cunningham, Mrs.
Brittle ami daughter, Lydia, Miss K
Brittle and Walter Brittle have re-
turned from few days outing at Lake
DeIavan