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Eden


The  Indianapolis  Star
Indianapolis, Indiana
May 5, 1917
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ATTEMPTS  TO  AID
PARTNER;  IS  HELD
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Joseph Eden, Alleged Automobile
Thief, Arrested When Stolen
Car Is Discovered.
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          Attempts of a man to win freedom for his partner already under arrest is said by the police to have been responsible for the arrest yesterday of  Joseph Eden,  alias  Charles Jones,  an alleged automobile thief, 29 years old, of Muncie, Ind.
          Claude M. Worley,  special investigator in the Criminal Court, received a mysterious telephone call Wednesday night, telling him that an automobile, of which  Charles R. Duffey  of Muncie, Ind., had been accused of stealing, could be found in a garage in North Delaware street.  The police were informed by Worley of the telephone call and  Detectives Rugenstein  and  McMurtry  found the automobile referred to in the garage.
Arrested  for  Disguising  Car.
          Duffey was arrested several days ago when books belonging to  Miss Gladys Myers,  a school teacher living at New Augusta, were found in the man's garage at Muncie.  The detectives discoveed that the number on the car was the same as the one which had been on Miss Myers's automobile, but when the teacher went to the garage to identify the machine, she found that the number had been stamped on the automobile by the thieves and that the car did not belong to her.
          Eden had been suspected of bringing the car to the garage and was arrested in a saloon on North Delaware street.  He refused to discuss the case, but the theory advanced is that he brought the automobile to Indianapolis and called the authorities in an attempt to free Duffey of the theft charges.
          Duffey has been bound over to the grand jury on a charge of altering a stolen automobile to prevent identification.  A revolver was found on Eden's person when he was arrested, and charges of carrying concealed weapons and grand larceny were brought against him.  He is held under a $12,000 bond.
Contributed by Russell G. Thompson


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