The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-01
STOP AUTO THEFTS
County Officials Begin Boosting
Amounts of Bonds.
Judge Lee Demands $4,000 for
Two Prisoners Release.

With auto thefts increasing in num-
bers almost as rapidly the high cost
of living, county officials today began
boosting the price of freedom, thru
the bond route, for men charged with
auto thefts.
Attorneys who followed Ed Marye
| from Eldorado, where Marye was ar
automobile from DR.. S. w. Grubbs
1910 West Tenth street. and Leo
Gauvreau from Lincoln. Neb., where
Gauvreau was arrested charged with
stealing a motor car from DR.. c. Z.
Brown 1905 Fillmore street, nearly
howled their heads off when Judge
Rad NJ. Lee demanded a $4,000 bond
| for release of their clients pending
i trial. Appeals were directed to ITink-
ham Veale, assistant county attorney
but he refused to ask for a. reduction
| in the bonds demanded.
Gauvreau's brother arrived in To-
| peka today and expressed his willing
ness to prepare a bond. The brother
! is a baker at Washington. Kan. He
| expressed belief in Gauvreau's inno-
| cence.
Gauvreau, young man % years of
! age and a presSman on the Omah a
World Herald. told officers that he
read an advertisement in an Omaha
paper offering a Buick machine cheap.
| He interested his pal, A. Schlect, in the
purchase of the car and the two went
fifty-fifty on its purchase, he stated
| today.
When Gauvreau was arrested in
| Lincoln, Neb., he had a bill of sale
| in his pocket purpOrted to be one
given him when he purchased the ma
chine. :, The Lincoln attorney who ac-
| companied him to Topeka stated that
! Schlect, the other man implicated, is
| the nephew of a prominent Lincoln
banker. Schlect was not brought to
! Topeka.
| Marye also claims his innocence.
| Both he and Gauvreau pleaded not
I guilty when arraigned before Judge
Lee this morning.
This is the first opportunity county
| officials have had to stiffen bonds for
alleged auto thieves since one man ar
rested for a similar offense was re-
| leased on small sized bond and, after
| his release, became implicated in sew
eral bank robberies in Kansas.
/
Kansas City Grain and Produce Market.
Kansas City, March 1.-WHEAT-Cash {:
MaEssaehs No e Is 2Sss No No. red
81 1912 A No. 50. 42@2.44.
| ' CORN-Market about unchanged. No. >
M Mbfea 81 3d. i' 10 s. s1iSa No. yellow,
4 S1.45G1.4S; No. 3, 81. 42Q1.4.
OATS-Market unchanged: No 2 white,
So sl'o5 No. : mixed S'@''e' NO. reo' 'OF'4
1 hAElh AND M11O AlA16E-9-.VVN1- -.
| SHORTS-$:37.
BRAN-S205G2.
/ wHEAT-Receipts 293 cars
| BUTTER-Market unchanged.
| EGGS-Current receipts 1885, zoe lower
| firsts. Sc lower, 47c.
PoULTRY-Hens, 1c lower, $50; others,
CoRNIcIose: May, s1.s57s July. s1.3oa4
September. s1.25%.
New York Stock Market.
| Wall St. New York, March 1-STOChS-
Stocks were dull and irregular during the
early and intermediate period of today S
d, trading but finished at variable gains. Tine
decision Of the United States supreme court
( favoring United States steel corporation
was the deciding factor. Sales approx
| mated ZOO shares
| session, representative industrfals, . to
points The closing was strong.
New York Sugar Market
New York. March Sugar futures closed
firm; sales 200 tons. May 1925; July, 1923
| August, 1925; September, 1925
Chicago Grain and Provision Market.
Chicago. March 1.-CORN-Close: March,
4 SLIM May, S1.363s 1861 July, S1-31M
/ 131h: September. Sl2T1s.
OATS-May, Soa4 a S05se; July, T3A q
PoRK-May, s34-55: July. $3.50
| LARD-May 500 July. S.,4 -.
i RTRS-N1v Iufr