The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-22
AUTO DISAPPEARS
IN EARLY MORNING
Mystery Surrounds Removal Of
Buick Car From Premises
of R. F. BOes.
POLICE ARE NOTIFIED,
AND MACHINE is LOCATED
Detectives Believe They viii Be
Able to Convict Thieves
of Crime.

r, +. Bocs, residing at 675 Sixth East
street, reported to the police Sunday
morning that his automobile. model
10 Buick of eighteen horsepower, had
been stolen from his residence Sunday
morning at $50 o'clock, Detectives
Curran and Ripley were Immediately
detailed on the case and although the
surrounding towns were notified by the
police, no trace of the missing car had
been found up TO o clock Monday night.
At that hour the car was located at the
Automobile exchange, G5 Market street,
TO which place the thieves had taken it
for the purpose Of buying cylinder oil,
gasoline and carbide.
Theft Is Discovered.
Boes said that he had taken the car
which he has recently purchased, to
his residence Saturday night at l1;30
o clock and had left it within twelve
feet Of his bedroom window before re-
firing. For some unknown reason he
was awakened Sunday morning at 2:3O
o 'clock, and looking out into the yard,
discovered that the car had been taken.
He INN medlateIy arose, dressed and,
after searching the premises for the
missing auto, notified the police of the
theft.
The police informed Boes, so he said,
that the car would in all probability
be returned Sunday forenoon by some
friend or by set of boys When Sun
day forenoon brought no trace of the
car, Boes began to make Investigations
IN the vicinity Of his home. Neighbors
told him that they had seen a car such
as he described halfway down the block
from his residence early Sunday morn
ing. The car was being pushed by two
men, both of whom were strangers IN
the neighborhood.
While the car was being pushed along
the street large black automobile
came up the street and stopped in
front of the stolen car, when the men
and filed the tanks of the Buick. The
ear was then cranked and the men
boarded il. disappearing in the darkness
and following the lead Of the black
car. Boes said that his car had
enough fuel to make trip of at
least 150 miles. The ,neighbors who
saw the two cars in the street said that
they thought that the smaller car had
run ont Of fuel and It's chauffeur had
telephoned to garage for more.
Police Have Clues.
II. r. Mccormick, n chauffeur en-
ployed at the Automobile exchange, saw
two men stop at the exchange Monday
night in the stolen car. Both men en-
tered the exchange and asked for easo~
line and oil, While the machine was
being supplied Mccormick, who had
the auto as one formerly
owned by DR.. r, G, Smedley, Jumped
in another machine and went TO the
police station, while another employe
telephoned the police that the auto was
at the exchange, but before the police
had arrived the thieves had become sus-
picious and left.
Detectives Curran and Ripley have
oeen supplied with good descriptions
If the auto thieves and are working
IN clues which they are certain will
and the men in Jail in very short
ime. Boes has offered $50 reward for
he return of the car and the arrest and
conviction OF the thieves,