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Show , o LAX COURTS ENCOURAGE AUTO THEFTS, JUDGE SAYS (By International News Service.) INDIANAPOLIS. Responsibility for the wave of automobile thefts with which the state is beset was laid directly di-rectly to the lax state courts, the state pardon board and Governor James P. Goodrich by Judge A. B. Anderson in Federal court here. Eight defendants, most of them mere boys, faced the court on charges of stealing automobiles and transporting transport-ing them from Indiana to other states, or vice versa. |