From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 31, 1974:

A 25-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, man had been bound over to District Court on four counts of grand theft by County Judge Mike Elwell. The man was charged with the theft of eight bicycles from residents of the Joseph R. Pearson Residence Hall on the Kansas University campus. Charges had originally included the theft of two more bicycles, but Elwell had dismissed those charges on the grounds the bicycles might not have been worth more than $50, the minimum value for items in a grand theft. The man had been arrested by Kansas City, Kansas, police after campus security officers at Kansas City, Kan., Community Junior College had become suspicious of a truck parked in a college lot. A KCK police officer testified he had found the 10 bicycles in the rear of a truck that had been reported stolen in Kansas City, Mo.