The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-20
CAR ring LINK
! WITH EUROPE
CROOKS Barred
investigators Assert 26
\ Costly Autos Were
Sold Overseas.
SHIPPER IS IN CUSTODY
State Police Start Probe of
Machine Gun Raids Near
'Terre Haute.
SHIPPER is IN CUSTODY

mOpll6 CEleIC ring redCIlSQ dS 4hI SeSI
as Europe and aS far west as Cal
afornia, various investigating agen-
cies believe, State Policeman Charles
Bridges disclosed today.
Twenty-six stolen cars from the
Middlewest have been shipped to
Europe for sale as new cars, accord
ing to evidence being Sifted.
Bridges also is on the trail OF a
stolen Cadillac sedan which an In
dianapolis man sold in California.
Bridges had led in the recovery
of twenty stolen cars in this terri
tory.
Federal agents are understood to
have in custody the man who super
vised the shipping of the cars to
Europe. The ring culled from its
loot the newest of the stolen Pack
ards C,adillacS, La Sales, LincolnS
and other expensive cars, CLOSED
them up to appear as if they just
had come from the factory and
shipped them across the Atlantic.
Sold in Europe
They were taken over by agents
in various European countries, who
sold them at reduced prices, just
as the ring worked in Indiana.
State investigators today TUNED
their attention to several machine
gun raids by rum runners in and
near Terre Haute, to ascertain
whether they are linked with the
motor theft ring and allied liquor
cliques.
Federal authorities interviewed a
number of persons, but declared
they expected no arrests nor i'm
portant new developments today.
~ Prosecutor William H. Remy, con-
tinuing to sift evidence OF general
crime and the Traugott clothing
store explosion of Aug. 26, had sew
eral persons before him and
planned to call in few automo-
bile dealers to ask them how they
could sell expensive cars at rtdicu-
ously low prices.
Two Suspects Freed
It was disclosed today that two
men whom the prosecutors Office
had locked up on vagrancy charges,
following refusal to talk freely be-
fore the grand jury, had gained
their liberty.
Earl Sells, 81, admitted boot
logger. 2408 E. Thirtieth ST., was
released on $4,000 bond supplied by
the Union Indemnity Company. He
had been held only on vagrancy
charge. He is known as a friend
of Edward Traugott, one OF the own
ers of the wrecked clothing store.
Clarence Douthitt, %, of 965 N.
Pershiag Ave, is said to be inter-
ested in a poolroom at 18 S. Capitol
Ave. was freed when Deputy Prose-
cutor w. B. Miller dismissed n vag-
rancy charge against him in Munlc-
ipal Court Wednesday afternoon.
He had been held under $4,000
bond.
huntington "Out of Sight
Ray Huntington, who was arrested
two weeks ago by Terre Haute po-
lice charged with having a hot
car in his possession and then ad-
mitted to $500 bond has dropped
out of sight" according to the Terre
Haute authorities.
huntington is brother Of Joseph
Huntington, Ku-Klux Klan Grand
Dragon. He had in his possession
a stolen car which has been traced
through an Indianapolis Klan lead
er! according to State police.
When arrested he is reported TO
have at first given an assumed
name, but upon recognition by Terre
Haute police admitted that his real
name was Huntington.
Bond Is Reduced
Criminal Judge James A. Collins
today reduced the bond of George
AEcHenry, held under $4,000 bail in
the county jail on charge OF bur-
glary. McHenry was arrested after
entering an apartment building and
threatening to shoot man who he
claimed disclosed his alleged beer
running activities to authorities.
Collins told Henry Winkler, at
torney for McHenry, that he would
not accept professional bondsmen
OF the bail.
whenever any of this crowd goes
cunning, I'm hard-boiled," Prosecu-
tor William II. Remy said. Let
them leave the guns at home. That
bond will have to be a good one"