Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-07-07
STRAW BONDS AND
LAX ENFORCEMENT T

! tON llNJap lhOM PAhE ONE.
ana then adding wood alcohol to
! give the desired "klck."
iIc asserted that after "A man
/ takes a drink OF This concoction he
/ Is IN the proper state OF mind to
climb the side of marble building,
I hold up policeman, assault his
wife and straEEle his mother. The
wood aicohO' IN bootleg whisky Is
responsible for So many men going
| blind in Tulsa, he said.
| These siik-shirtcd. diamond
studded Kings Of the lIluor traffic"
/ he said, stand around on the
/ streets ana joke with you business
/ men at the very moment that their
/ hirelngs are stealing your automo-
( liles. When booze car Is seized
. the owner does not care to expose
! himself hy claiming it. He cannot
l afford to lose two or three thOsand
/ dollars every time car is cap
Lturcd, so he sends his stool-pigeOns
/ out 10 steal tho cars. In this way
/ lie gets them for moderate sum.
Drastic Action Needed.
( Unless steps are taken TO get
lmen In office who will arrest and
prosecute criminals and TO see that
| the criminals get their just deserts
| when they are Gpprchcnded.' de-
! Clarcd Reeves, ''thG Insurance men
! Of the country are going to cut
/ Tulsa from their lists and it will be
! impos 1blc for a man here to get
INSURANCE. at any price"
Tie Said they had found dies at
( a thieves rarag, hero that were used
in changing the numbers QRYstolen
"rhc secretary OF the Automobile
club" he asserted, Counted 13 cars
| in one block the other day that did
not bear 1918 license tags. They
either carried liconsc-appled for
or had no tags at all"
He referred to the case Of James
/ Il. Bragossl
"Bragahsas car was stolen. our
officers found 1t in Joplin and re-
turned il to the owner II was stolen
again Again II WIS located IN Jop-
lin Constable Oberst started back
to Tulsa with g. In Kansas hc was
| halted by Earl Maisch. alleged to be
/ one Of our most. notorious lutomo-
bile thieves, aud forced at the point
, of q six shooter to turn the automo-
. bile over TO HIM. Ma,sch took the
/ .lr and also the constnhle's revol-
.,r. ana tho latter was forced To re-
uau tu Tulsa ,Mpty handed Mlisch
/ was later arrested We had two or
three chtres against him here and
np was wanted iu Kansas on a fugi-
tive warrant for highway robbery.
ono 9av fJuud to my surprise that
he had been released on a straw
nona I'm on" pf the cases and no bond
had been secured in the other cases
that woro pending The same day
j pfaEa -sa's car vas stolen for the
third tine and ii has not been To-
aatcd yet" o
Bond Was "WatCrcd"
ON one straw bond. he said they
found lot in the cOlored section
scheduled a. $500. when the tax
rolls showed IL had been assessed
al $l,a. In another case the uamo
Of a man who owned farm In the
count, had been deliberately forged
30 q bond.
Ua them rotated tho instance Of
mv,auslior MacQucon's car where
inn fHrf had cut the chains ON the
latter automobile. just outside the
. ruur.IoHae NaCQueon caught him
did rho act The thief Knocked Mac
.rnga Gown aod covered him with
lig gun Reeves heard the COM
motion. ~au down stairs and COW
cred the ltof with an automatic,
1 Later tho culmit confessed lie was
rur lu taN bu' was soon released on
n straw bond.
.HawtrIs cause many thcfts,"
said the county attorney
IT reward IS offered At ALL nc
cora.rr 10 Eccyes. IL should be for
The apprehension ana conviction OF
the 'h.af rather than the recovery
Of fNr car.
4 u, said there bad hoon too much
. r'rw.rrg with juvenile thieves
"Loue mp the record" he de-
clar.d. "anJ you will. dn1 that every
blv who has been turned loose hc-
caus. of an appeal from "a paren, oT
Ipromuen, citizen, has been soccer
or Ator roargested ON slmiIar pr