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Show M TIERS TRACED ID FIHEMHI'S HOME OH GRSliT HUE Mysterious thefts of tires, rims and other parts of automobiles weer solved yesterday afternoon, when Detective J. L. Ilobson arrested Frederick W. Bremer, a railroad fireman residing at 1955 Grant avenue. The fireman was charged with grand larceny and two other men, Andrew Hewitt and CharleB Pierce, were arrosted by Detectives Chambers and Hobson on charges of receiving and disposing of stolen prop-ertv. prop-ertv. Several hundred dollars worth of "the automobile parts named wore located by the police in Bremer's home garage and it is alleged that the prisoner admitted having stolen them. Bremer was the last of the trioto be taken Into custody and his capture cap-ture was effected through careful sleuthing on the part of Detective Hob-son Hob-son and other members of Chief Thomas Thom-as E. Browning's staff, after Gomer A. Nicholas, a Twenty-fifth street grocer, had furnished the clue. Mr. Nicholas reported having purchased pur-chased an automobile tire from Andrew An-drew Hewitt. Tho officers immediately immediate-ly went on Hewitt's trail and soon had him in custody. He was cross-examined and stated that he reecived the tire from Charles Pierce. From Pierce was obtained the declaration that he received the tire from Fred Eremer. Then came the denouement. Detective Hobson went to tremor's home, placed him under arrest and then located a large supply of easily salable automobile parts in his garage. ga-rage. Among the articles were the tiro, inner tube and rim stolen from Municipal Judge George S. Barker's automobile a few nights ago. Tires and robes belonging to William Stratton of Riverdale, cases of paint and oil stolen from tho Ogden Paint, Oil and Glass company several months ago, several hundred feet of rubber hose and other articles believed to have been stolen were also found. Hewitt and Pierce were arraigned this morning in police court. The former for-mer entered a plea of not guilty and the latter requested time to consider the question of pleading. He was granted until tomorrow morning, lire-mer's lire-mer's case will probably be placed before be-fore the court tomorrow. |