The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-08-13
BEDFORD AUTOMOBILE STOLEN.
Thief Headed Toward Eastern Markets,
Run Out Of Gasoline on Cove
Mountain.

Early Monday morning as Reed
Grissinger was getting ready to
start to Fort Loudon with E. r.
McClain's freight wagon, he
noticed a fve-passenger Hup-
mobile car pass somewhat hur-
riedly through McConnellsburg
with no occupant except the dri-
yer. AS the driver of the car be-
gan the ascent of the mountain
east of town, he generously gave
seats to George Stech and Mart
in Wolf who were going to work
on the State road that is being
built across the mountain. On
account of the fact that the dri-
yer was something of a novice,
that his radiator was leaking and
gasoline nearly exhausted, he had
considerable difficulty in getting
the machine to the top of the
mountain, Stech and Wolf leav-
ing him at the quarry about a
mile west of the top.
About the time this was tax
ing place Farmer Scott Stuckey,
who resides along the Lincoln
Highway, four miles west o f
Bedford, made the discovery that
his new Hupmobile had been.
stolen from his garage during
the night. His sons hastened to
Bedford, and soon the telegraph
and telephone wires were h t
flashing the intelligence east and
west. Shortly a reply was re-
ceived from Cline's garage in
McConnellsburg saying, Ma
chine as described passed east
ward through MeConnellsburg
about Z O'Clock this morning"
The boys then went to the Key
stone garage in Bedford, and at
II o'clock, the two Stuckey boys,
with Earl Swartzwelder hold of |
the steering wheel, in a big six
cylinder Cole, were hitting the
pike less than siXty-miles an hour |
in the direction Of McConnells-
burg. At Harrisonville, 6 miles
west of McConnellsburg, they
learned that a stranger
with a Hup, had applied for five
gallons of gas, saying that he
was in a hurry and that he would |
pay for the gas on his return
the next day. Merchant Hollins-
head wisely kept the gasoline.
The pursuing party got no fur
ther clue of the missing car eX-
cept what they got from the gar
age in McConnellsburg and the
workmen on the mountain, until
they reached Gettysburg, where
they were informed that the car
had been found near McConnells-
burg, and was safe in the Nc
Connellsburg garage.
AS Reed Grissinger was return
ing from Fort Loudon Monday af-
ternoon with the freight wagon,
he met the Stuckey party about
a mile west Of Fort Loudon, and
from them learned of the theft
of the automobile, and told them
that he had seen a machine like
the one described, pass through
McConnellsburg early that morn
ing. Further up the mountain
road he met a man walking,
whom he at once recognized as
the driver Of the Hup that he had
seen in McConnellsburg. 1t then
occurred to Grissinger that the
had been left along the
road, and he began to look for it.
When he reached the top of the
mountain, he saw where a ma
chine had left the road and had
been driven off into the woods.
He followed the tracks, and did ,
not go very far until he came up
on the machine in a secluded ,
spot, the machine having been
turned around and headed for the
ike. The driver of the car had :
taken the precaution to put the '
switch plug in his pocket when t
he left the machine, but a cotter 8
pin or small key in Reeds pocket |
lid the trick, and soon Reed was
from the woods with |