Car Belonging To Julius

Longworth Found At Avoca.

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Thieves Drove Into

Farmyard In Morning

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Left Car With Farmer

As Security For $25 Loan.

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The Ford touring car belonging to Julius Longworth of Sleepy Eye engineer of the C. & N. W. Ry. Co., which was stolen last Wednesday night has been recovered but the thief has not been apprehended. The car was found in Murray County and Sheriff Julius was advised Saturday morning that the car had been recovered. It has since been restored to the owner.

Theft Discovered Thursday.

When Mr. Longworth went to unlock his garage Thursday morning he discovered that the lock was gone and that the staple had been pulled from the door. Upon opening the building he found that the car had been stolen. He immediately notified Sheriff Julius who appeared on the scene and made an investigation.

It developed at the investigation that the Andrew Losleben family who live nearby heard some commotion about eleven o’clock at night but supposed that it was Mr. Longworth driving into the garage and paid no further attention to it. Some of the Long-worth family slept in a tent that night not forty feet from the garage,but they heard nothing.

Sheriff Julius On Job.

The right front fender of the car was bend and there were three pieces of glass in the rear where the inside glass had broken out. The number of the car was taken down by the sheriff and he immediately went out postal cards to the sheriffs in the neighboring counties to be on the lookout for the car.

Car Recovered Saturday.

Not until Saturday did anything new develop. It was then that the Sheriff of Murray County telephoned from Slayton that he believed that he had the stolen car. In company with Clifford Honl, a brother-in-law of Mr. Longworth, Sheriff Julius journeyed to Slayton Sunday where the car was found and taken back to Sleepy Eye by Honl.

The car has been recovered at a farm house about two miles south of Avoca. It was turned over to the Murray County Sheriff by the farmer who became suspicious when the party who had left it with him failed to return to get the car.

Thief Left for Heron Lake.

According to Walter Gee with whom the car was left, a party by the name of Joseph Lee drove into his farm yard Thursday morning at 8 o’clock and told him that he was busted and needed money and that he was willing to leave the car there as security for a $25 loan. Lee had worked Gee several years ago during harvest and he suspicioned nothing and handed the $25 to Mr. Lee. There was a companion with Lee whom Gee did not know and whose appearance he cannot described. At 10:30 that morning Lee and his companion left, saying that they would return with a few days and reclaim the car. Nothing has been heard or seen of them since. Mr. Gee was paid $25 reward for recovering the car. This makes him come out even on the deal.

Lee is described as a man of medium build, 5 feet 7 in. tall, weight 160 pounds. He is about 35 years old, has brown hair, and wore a brown coat and overalls when last seen.

New Ulm Review,

Sept. 3, 1924

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