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Fred Brust’s Ford Is Taken

By Thieves For Tire Value.

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Sunday evening when Fred Brust went to get his car from the rear of the Brust restaurant on South Minnesota Street preparatory to going home for the night he discovered that it was missing. He at first thought that probably one of his boys had taken it but when the youngster showed up and did not have the car he notified the police who immediately started a search. Shortly after being notified of the loss Chief Harmening received word from Wm. Oetting who lives across the Minnesota River in Courtland Township that a Ford car was standing near the school house near the Reinhart farm. He informed the chief that he in company with three other fellows were driving along the road when they came upon two cars standing together with several men trying to take the tires off of one of them. When the Oetting party came up to the car the men all departed in the one car leaving the other car standing.

Becoming suspicious, the men with Oetting hid behind the school house while Oetting went to call the police. While he was gone, those who were hidden saw the car that had been standing there when they first drove up come back and the fellows again started to tear off the tires, one of them staying in the car with the motor running while the other two did the work. When they were called at they hastily made their getaway from the place.

Brust, accompanied by Tony Groebner and Jack Forster went out to the school house when notified that a car was there and found it to be Brust’s missing car. The air had been let out of all the tires and the pins in the tubes were missing but. the tires were still there. Several wrenches and tools that were in the car were also missing.

New Ulm Review,

October 15, 1924

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