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Show BOY STEALS AN . AUTOMOBILE .114 - ' Proves to be an Inexperienced Chauffeur and Steers Into a Ditch Is Aiding- in the Hour of Trouble Only to Meet ' With More Trouble. , ' , -Roland Pearson, a fifteen-year-old boy, is locked in the county jail, charged with stealing an automobile. The machine la owned by. Dr. L. H. Craws-haw and was takeu from tho Fair Grounds immediately after tho Keller-Thomas fight of last night. oung Pearsou admits that he is tho guilty one, and" says that he took tho car because he had no othor convey-1 ance in which to ride down town. ' Pearson is- the son of a lady who ( resides on Twenty-eighth street. Tha I mother seems to have lost all control over the boy and for the past week, according to his own story, he has rot slept uuder the parental roof, nor even seen his mother. ' Ho stated to the arresting officer that he had learned to operate an ' automobile from "lnafbig" around a : Ruragx?. Young Pearson, however, .y not an adept in the driving of a car and it was thl3 fact which led .'to his capture. Dr. Crrvwsbaw, In leaving his, oar , i In tho Fair Grounds, took the. 'pin? i 'I out of the .electric box and put It In ' his jweket. Dr. C. P. Osgood, who I also had a machine In the grounds, (iid not take this precaution. Youn; Pearson took the plug from the 03-good 03-good machine, placed it In the other machine and drove tho car out of the tgTOunds. A short distance from the Fair Grounds entrance he ran the machine into a ditch aud could not get It into the road again. Another auto-Isl. auto-Isl. seeing the boy's predicament, belpcdliim nan the car. On Twenty-ninth Twenty-ninth street, between Wall and Pacific Paci-fic aybiiuc, Pearson, by his poor management man-agement of lh steering wheel, ton) off a tire and was forced to abandon the. machine. Tho car was found lat-erand lat-erand the owner notified. Deputy Sheriff Murphy,' who was detailed on tho case, was Informed .1y the autolst who had helpeil young Pearson In his first difficulty, which gave the officers a clue, leading to the arrest of Pearson. The boy made little effort to deny the theft. Just what will be done with the boy has not been decided. a hip ii w oa t mwa |