WHOLESALE MOTOR CAR THEFTS

Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2645, 20 October 1919, Page 3

WHOLESALE MOTOR CAR THEFTS

For four months Sidney Meredith, an attractive musician of 22, dressed like a prince and threw money to the winds in fashionable hotels on the £4OO to £SOO a week he acquired through the daring theft of automobiles in London. He finally came to grief, however, and has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. Meredith has a thorough driving knowledge of cars, and this, with his appearam e, was his stock-in-trade.. He would not attract attention as he climbed into a big car standing in front of ciub or hotel and dri'e away, and he confined himself iarg civ to’ this method. He confessed, the police say. to stealing 50 machines in the four months he operated. Meredith is accredited with saying that Jie sold each car quickly to a syndicate of wealthy men whom .he believes often made from 400 to TOO per cent, profit after repainting the machines and otherwise changing their appearance. He declined to divulge' their identity.