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Show Fugitives Try to Sell Auto to Sheriff, but Land in Jail A' S a result of his endeavors yesterday yes-terday morning to sell an expensive automobile to Sheriff Sher-iff John S. Corless at a bargain bar-gain price. Loon R. Stewart of Chicago was placed in the county jail yesterday afternoon, not on a charge of automobile stealing but of wdfe desertion, while Dorothy Bor-zelil Bor-zelil was arrested, on a charge of child abandonment. The woman arrived in the sheriff's office, accompanying Stewart there when he was arrested on the street by Deputy Sheriff William HugheR, Just in time to be greeted with the telegraphic order from Chicago for her arrest. The arrest of the two came about through the Bending of telegrams by Chief Deputy W. L". Schoppe asking how Stewart got the car he was offering of-fering for sale. It appears that Stewart Stew-art was proprietor of a business in A j Chicago, which he gave as reference for his title to the ear. The surmise of Deputy Schoppe is that the telegram sent to that concern con-cern came to the attention of Stewards Stew-ards wife, and that she furnished the information of his whereabouts to the Chicago police. A dispatch was short- j ly received ordering that he be held on a charge of wife desertion and soon came the dispatch to hold the woman alleged to be traveling with hlni. According to Stewart's storv in the sheriifs office, the woman now traveling trav-eling with him was raised in his home, having been taken from an orphan-ago orphan-ago by himself and his wife. He said that she married a foreigner at the instance of his wife, and that the man was cruel to her, that his own wife became insanely jealous of her. and that their departure together in rearch of happiness was the final out- r."1 h1 fiorry station, he giving ;p his busln.-.sa and she leaving be-! be-! hind her child |