Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-08-14
AUTO MISSED At
SAN YGNAC|O IS
RECOVERED HERE
Exciting Automobile Trip fIong Border Is
Made by Officers Who Search for Men
AlIeqed TO Have Taken Automobile From
San ygnacio Yesterday.
TWO MEN ARE PLACED UNDER
ARREST BY CAMERON OFFICERS
Automobile Is Found IN Front OF Local
Hotel and Man Said to have Been Pas
Senqer in Car is Placed Under Arrest BY
Deputy SheriffS.

A seven passenger Hudson touring car
which disappeared IN San Ygnacio Wed
mesdaN night according 20 information
received was the cause Of a 235-inile
chase IN an automobile along the Tex
aS Mexican border from San Ngnacio 10
Brownsville. and ending in this city this
afternoon with the arrival Of Deputy
sheriff Perez from 1Iidalgo county. The
Hudson automobile is said To have left
San lgnacia early Yesterday. and car
answering its description reached this
city early this morning. having evident
N made continuous run Of approx
mately twenty four hours.
The Hidalgo county officer upon his
arrival here found that the Cameron
county officers had already placed I'm.
der arrest two men who arrived with
the Hudson. and they were being held
ia the county jail.
Al q o'clock this morning Deputy
Sheriff Joe I.omgoria received long
distance phone call from Jesse Perez.
deputy sheriff IA Mission. IIidalgu
"a county 10 look out for a hudson sew
en passenger touring ear with license
number 3.3 Laredo. He said the car
passed through Mission last night head.
cd for this city and that he had rc~civ-
cd wire from Sheriff Sanchez Of Webb
county that the ear had been stolen In
that city and that il was occupied by
two men when ID left that border point.
Deputy I.ongoria pressed Deputy
Sheriff Haley into service and M :
O'Clock today they apprchendcd two men
who were IN the possession of the ear
and placed them in the county Jail "a
await the arrival Of two deputy Sher.
ifs from Zapata county who were hur-
rNing To this city in another automobile
The officers located the ear on Eliza.
beth street. near the Miller hotel. and
at this point Deputy Sheriff Haley took
in one of the men who was sitting In the
ear in front Of the hotel while Deputy
Sheriff Longoria by some clever sleuth
ing picked up the other man at q gar
age where he had gone with IN inner
tube and was offering il for sale when
Longoria placed him under arrest.
The first man arrested bv Deputy Tia
lev said that he did not know anything
about who owned the ear that he was
merely with the other man as travel
ing companion
The man arrested at the garage b,
Longoria was mum a. % the ownership
of the car or where he got il and b,
mnch talking on the part of both of IN,
deputies nothing ~ importancve couls
be- CLEANED from him.
The name plate or brand showing th.
ear to BE- Hudson make had been r.
moved. If the numbers 233 were on IN.
ear originally all but -" had been re
moved from the number shield Imprint,
on the number shield Indicate there has
been other numbers.
AS soon aS the brownsville officer
had placed the men in jail they commnn
icatcd with the deputy sheriff at Mission
who was ca route 10 Brownsville fha
the men had been apprehendcd and th
officers from Mission arrived in thi
city at 2 o'clock this afternoon accom-
panied by Ignacio Supclveda of kared
owncr ~ the ear.
} Mr.. Zupelveda lives M Laredo and In.
J gone to San lgnacio, which il a Shor
} epiee over the Webb county line in Zar
} alta county and the ear wsas tolen fron
J this place.
J Lee Edwards who was born and raj.
cd in Laredo. and who is well know
along the border. il charged with thief
} Of the ear, and Deputy Sheriff Pere