St. Johnsbury Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-1920, 1920-09-22
AUTO THIEVES
RAID GARAGE
in LYNDONVILLE
Police Spread Drag Net
Over Northern Vermont
and Quebec

Lyndonville has followed its thrills
of tornado and murder and suicide
with one of the most daring automo.
bile robbcr;es that has been perpe-
tratcd in this section in years. The
combined efforts of the police, GUS
toms officersand immigration autho-
rites of Northern Vermont and the
Province of Quebec are centered to-
day in rounding up the daring band
OF thieves.
A x-cylindcr, 1920 model Stude-
baker car, owned by Henry G. Mar
vim of Camden, South Carolina, was
taken from the Economy Garage
owned by Harris Allen, early Tues
day morning and at latest accounts
it had passed the customs authorities
at Derby Line and was speeding into
the province of Quebec. A dragnt
had been spread through very village
and town in an eqort to stop the
thieves but up to noon today no re-
port had come of their apprehension.
Deputy Sheriff Garfield who has been
working on the case has been in
touch with Canadian authorities.
The story of the robbery starts
with the ovcrturning Of 1920 Hud-
son speedster in West Burke about
midnight Sunday night. This car
bore the Quebec number $40.
Monday morning Mr.. Allen Of the
Economy Garage received word that
a car had been overturned on the
West Burke road and was asked to
come to the scene and tow the car
to his Garage for repairs. He started
for West Burke but on the road met
a .Lvndonville Creamery truck with
the damaged car in tow. There were
five young French fellows ranging in
age from % to 80 wears, with the
damaged car. They told a story of
having been mired in mud on a coun-
try road for hours Sunday night and
then when on the West Burke road
having skidded and overturned. The
radiator was smashed, the windshield
broken and the front axle badly bent.
The car was taken to Mr.. Aliens ga
rage and at the earnest pleadings of
the young men he started work at
once with number of workers to re-
pair the damaged car.
The five Young men remained
about Lyndonville throughout the
day Monday. At nidnight- Monday
night three of them were eating in
a lunchroom and two others were at
the railroad station inouiring the cost
Of transportation to Quebec.
Early Tuesday morning Mr.. Allen
went to his garage to find that ,
thieves had entered his garage by !
tearing off screen window to his
office, that the hack doors were open
and that 1920 Studebaker car owned
BY Mr.. Marvin was missing. There
was also missing over $1,000 worth :
Of property taken from other cars
stored in the garage. |
Mr.. Marvin conducts a summer
notel at New London, N. H., and a
winter hotel at Camden, South Caro-
ina. Members of his, family with the
chauffeur were in Lyndonville MAX
ng visit at the home of Thomas
McCondah. Thew had placed the car
n the Economy garage for storage
Turing their stay.
The five young men who came to
Lyndonville with the Quebec car
lave not been seen since the disap-
oearance of the Studebaker car.
Deputy Sheriff Garfield was called
% Lyndonvi,le on the case. He
ound that to get the Studebaker car
,ut of the garage, the thieves had
moved large truck which was jack
I'd up, and had pushed the heavy car
through a sand pile and around the
blacksmith shop. They had evidently
aiken the precaution not to start the
,ar until it was in the main road
lgain. The tracks in the sand indi-
lated clearly at least five different
sizes of shoes and styles of boots.
From the car of H. w. Boaz of
st. Adams, travelling salesman for
and neckwear, the thieves
lad stolen over $1,000 worth of
clothing and neck-wear samples. This /.
included mems and boys clothing of
Ill kinds. Thew stripned the Roaz
ar of everything but the tools. They
'lso took a heavy lap-robe valued at
ia from another car and stripped
he Quebec car of everything of
,aluc that could be taken. From the
,ffice they had taken 20 one-gallon
ANS of Monogram oil.
The Studebaker car of Mr.. Marvin
'arried two sets of number plates,
me from New Hampshire and the
'ther South Carolina. Mr.. Garfield
ound that Studebaker car had
,een registered at the U. S. Customs
'ffice at Derby Line at 1.3O a. M.
Tuesday morning and was registered
lnder the New Hampshire numbers.
1t 1856 a. M, a Studebaker car was
egistered at(the Canadian customs
'ffice at Rock Island under South
numbers.
The authorities have a good des-
'ription of the five men who brought
n the Hudson car and who have
ince disappeared from Lvndonville.
Two of them wore Canadian army
oats and in the Hudson car was two
rmv blankets.
The identity of the owner of the
hudson car with the Quebec num-
'er plate has not been established. 1t
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