MOTOR CAR THIEVES

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14776, 15 October 1921, Page 12 (Supplement)

MOTOR CAR THIEVES

Automobile thieves, the most pcr- | sistent, cunning, and successful of the many varietu-s of crooks al work in ! New York have stolen -'2o'.) auto- '. mobiles in aboul five months. This ! is at the rale of about fifteen cars a ] day. In their counter- d'fensive the ; police have recovered 1020. i These ll.gurcs are those of the Police I Lepartniunt, but they are issued with ' the statement that the "lag" due lo ! the delay in the recovery of the stolen 'cars will probably bring the percen- ' j recovered Lo aboul 5."), rnnkin.g the ; i daily total successfully stolen seven. There are a good many reasons why i automobile stealing is a safer and more | lucrative form of theft than any other. | i»ne is thai instead of having to carry ' j away the loot the loot carries the thief. ", j Another is thai there ar.- 0. 000,000 in ' J use in the I'niled Stales, and il is coin- : paratively easy in cunse<iuence safely , ! to dispose of ears. , i Last year .">l7O of the 2 la.00(1 ears j in New York were stolen. Of these , 1500 were recovered. Two hundred , ! rnui forty-one arrests wi re made bv j the automobile squad. Willi Ihe "re ■ j ward" system expos, d and h iff a dozen members of Ihe automobile i ! squad suspended and awailing hid. , j Ihe record to bo made this year by Ihe l police is being awaited with interest.