The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-09
AMERICAN MOTOR LEAGUE BUL rsa TIT,TN Hs

E$4 @4E E. IEIlN. %f%=s To protect it's members from the in creasing danger of losing their automo- piles by theft, the officers of the Amer iean Motor League have devised a reg
 istry system under which the car of
 each member may be registered and de-
 serfbed in detail, and protection
 disk attached to the car, thus notify | ing the professional eulprit that an or ganized national body will urge his
 conviction and punishment if any theft is attempted. Besides oering reward
 of one flundrsd dollars for the convic- ton of the thief who steals an automo- bile, the American Motor League of
 fers a separate reward of twenty-five
 dollars for conviction leading to the punishment of any offender who mali- ciously injures the person or property
 of member while on the public road.
 The league has issued to it's members
 the following announcement:
 I To Members of the American Motor | Ltague:
 The American Motor League protec-
 tion disk tells it's own story. It is
 shown (both sidesl. by accompanying
 cuts. It is covered with red leather
 and may be attached to the car with
 out danger of scratching or marring the l polished surface. The lettering is in l gold and will not tarnish by exposure 4 to the weather. The disk is three inch I es in diameter and is supplied with a I strong red silk cord by which may be I attached to any convenient part of the 5l car.
 I IN CASE OF THEFT.
 I The league, on learning of the theft
 of any registered automobile belonging
 to a member, will immediately: send no- tice and full description of the stolen
 car to the police authorities of towns
 within a radius of several hundred \ miles from the place of theft, with l notice also of the reward offered for the d conviction of the thief. The name and .l address of the owner of the stolen ye- .l hicle will be given, and notice will be I sent to him at once in cose the thief is arrested or the vehicle rcovered. Simi-
 lar notice will be sent to the various dealers in secondhand machines who l will thereby be warined against the purchase of the stolen car and will thus be enabled to identify and detain the thief who offers the stolen property for . sale. Notices with full information will l also be sent to the automobile papers ;. and to the prominent newspapers and
 every effort will be made to recover the . car and convict the offender. If any Z unregistered automotor is stolen from a member, the league will exert every effort to recover tn proprty, but hav- ing no recorded description of the car, ! it's action in such case will be less z8 prompt and eective.
 IN CASE OF ASSAULT.
 The member whose person or proper tp is injured should at once secure the ,, arrest of the offender and take him be x fore the nearest magistrate Witness es should be secured and, if necessary, the aid of the public prosecuting attor- !, eny Cor other attarney9 invoked and the < criminal thus brought to punishment . The reward of twenty-five dollars ir ], such case will be paid for conviction X which leads to the punishment of the , offender. That is to say, mere tri- l fling offense which ends with a brief , lecture by the magistrate and the dis charge of the prisoner, is not one that < calls for the payment of this reward \ What the league aims to do is to bring < to punishment the brutal ruffians who
 cannot plead infancy as an excuse fo, ..l crime.
 { HOW TO GET THIS PROTECTION ! Send to the secretary for a registry X blank. When you have filled out this < blank it will cantain a detailed descrip- <, tion of your car from which it can be I easily identified Then return the reg i, istry blank to league headquarters | where it will be filed according to the , city, county and state in which the { member resides. A numbered protec- \ ton disk will then be sent to the regis. tered member and the number of the \ disk will be entered upon the registry 5 blank describing his machine. To GOV. < CT the cost of disks, printing and othel i disbursements needed to maintain tali. X dedaptment nominal fee is charged f and as the league membership increases < even this charge may be dispensed , with. Persons not members of tht \ American Motor League who wish tt
 avail themselves of this protection
 should apply to the American Motor < League, Vanderbilt Building, New
 York, N. Y.
 sl A PLEASANT SURPRISE. yl When Howard Smith of 215 Golf, q street went home Saturday evening h, e was mast fIaa SantJV si1rnriSad to Sal