Arizona republican., 1920-10-31
LOCAL MAN GETS NAME. FUR QUICK FINDING IF. STOLEN MOTOR CARS

When our old friend Sherlock Holmes packed away his vioiin and taking one last shot in the arm. passed into oblivion of the immortals, because, as he told his comrade Dr. Watson, he was unable to find sufficient outlet for his sleuthing ability, it was before the day of the automobiles world wide popularity. Therefore the era of the automobile thief had not arrived.
 Sherlock confined his operations largely to England, in which league he held first honors against all corners. Phoenix may be lin the sticks" as far as the detective league is concerned, but when it comes to mailing stolen au- tomobiles, this city is right up among the leaders.
 l Charles J. Pottberg Of Barret and | Pottberg, Inc, the local Studebaker 1 distributors, is making fast strides for | the title of Sherlock's S understudy in this section. The apprehension of two stolen Studebaker automobiles in as many months in his record to date and he's going big. Both cars had been brought to Phoenix from Califor
 mia. In one case the alleged thieves were captured and returned to Los 1 Angeles, in the other, the latest, they
 had already departed for parts un- | known
 observation, my dear Watson, sim ply a matter of observation and deduc-
 tion; merely the relation of cause and
 effect. with reverse English" Thus
 does MT. Pottberg, paraphrasing Sher-
 lock Holmes, explain his latest catch.
 Here's how it happened:
 While scanning The Republican's
 classified section Mir. Pottberg noticed
 1920 Stakeholder Special Six adver- tised for sale at a remarkably low price. He investigated and found that the car was all that the lad" had said and more. It was practically new The price asked was less than the Studebaker dealers have been getting for similar automobiles more than g year older.
 Upon inquiry the man who was sell ing the car stated that he had pur- , chased it from a man from California : who set forth that he and his family had driven the car from Oakland, Cali fornia and that he must sell it for "an. price" to pay for an operation on hi son who was in a local hospital. k lady and little boy accompanied tn man and verified the story. The ca was bought for a song and the part, went their way.
 A telegram sent by MT. Pottberg t the Oakland agency, brought the repl Il tudI liO CdI Dl l0dI SeF1dl nunDer nd 4 been sold there. Playing a hunch, Nil
 Pottberg then called the Los Angele Studebaker dealer on the long distanc Z telephone. From there he learned tha
 the car in question had been stole 4 from an automobile rental concern i that city. The car was held and yes q terday a representative of the lawfl N owner came to town and took it ava, # The man here who had paid req money for the automobile in order [
 take advantage of bargain and hel # the tourists sick son, undoubtedl
 acted in good faith. He still has tw N telegrams and a bill of sale left by tn
 tourist; but has no car to show for tn
 money he invested. The telegrams wer
 found to be fakes and the bill of sal
 not worth the paper it is written ol
 The latter is signed General Mote
 Company, Oakland, Cal, by Andre ~ Jackson, president
 As Mir. sPottberg explained, sNIr Ar W drew Jackson was no doubt presiden
 but that was years ago; and he wash
 president of an automobile agenc either. Simply a matter of deductio F. Watson"