Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-07-07
FORTY-FWE AUTOS
STOLEN HERE SINCE
FIRST OF MARCH
Police Say Many Of the Owners
Are Too Careless With
Their Cars.
SOME Of THEM RECOVERED

ported 20 tho Bur~au " Police as stol-
on IN this city since March !, and
Superintendent of Police Black de
eleroe that unless thu automobile own
ers and the ineurancs companies take
som. mean~ for checking the thoft of
cars Il viii ha excecdlnaly diHhcult
for tho police 20 break up tho practice,
slthoush there has been a noticeable
falling IN IN the number stolen this
month. but on, having been reported
~ heins stolen This was the Ford Sc
dan belonging 20 Dr. II ]. Stuhhs.
which was taken from in front of tho
Queen Theatre on July .. The sup
erlntendent was especially emphatic I'm
his statement that the fact that ma
Oh lnce are insured often makes their
owner~ ver, careless. aonle evan OK
pressing thensslvs~s as not caring II
tho car Ia etolen. saying that the,
have tho car insured and will not Nc
Tho loscr.
Details of plain clothes men have
made Inspections 81 machines parked
about tho du ront Building. which
eeeme - he a center FOR the theft of
ears and have made some interesting
dlRcoverica one DAY total " i3l csi,s
we're parked about the building and NJ
that number there were 2e with the
koye In the locks. Offering a thief every
inducement 80 steal the car
Great difficulty IN checking the
theft " cars ~ that the police hay"
no moane ~ knowing whether or not "a
man who steps into a machine and
starts OF with u Is tho owner MoS'
~ tho thieves are well dresssed 'us'
fNt this reason Black said. and owners
Hhnuld exercise more care Ho claims
that when n driver leaves s.. 900 or
$4,000 article on the street. some pains
should Ae taken 10 see that it is not
stolen Another problem IN connection
With ;hc theft Of automobiles is that
MANY 20 the people losing their cars
usually have violated the laws IN per
mittlug their cars 20 rernaln parxcd
on Market street for n greater length
~ time than allowed by law There
haNe heen several instances Of this
reeehtlv
yesterday. Ford ssians have been
popular among the thieves. This is
not local condition bv any means.
FOR records of thefts in other cities
show that these cars lead all others in
the number beinS stolen. A list OF As
cars stolen during q six-dsy period IN
Philadelphia, ending June %. shows
that of this nun1hcr there were II
Ford sedans. seven Ford coupes and
two touring cars
An interesting fact IN connection
with the recovery of Buick machine
IN this city recently was that upon
communicating with the factory, the
police learned that there were parts
~ three different Bucks on the one
recovered here. This indicated that
evidently three Bucks had been
stolen. taken apart and reassemhled.
The recoveries by the local police
will compare with the best records OF
any city IN the country. 1t was said
today For the period beginning
March !, when as cars We're stolen
the local police have recovered 81 o.
this number. on the IS cars taken
there were 30 Fords. or which is were
OF the sedan type.
The police figures show that during
The month of March there were Il ma
chimes reported to the police as being
stolen. OF this number there were
seven Fords. a Haynes Stevens. Buick
roadster and Alarmon. Seven OF the
care have been recovered. one OF
them was the Narmon, located a. Do
Yer a day or two ago.
During the month of April there
were Eve cars reported as be,ns
stolen. Two We're DOdees. one was Al
Oldsmobile and two were Ford Sc
dams two OF these cars were re.
covered
In MAY. a total ~ Ia were stolen
ten % which We're Fords six were O,
thu sedan type and four were of IN,
coupe model In addition 20 the Fords
other cars were stolen as follows
A Cadillac roadster. Dodge tourins
car. Peerless roadster and a Buick
Five ~ this number were recovered
three being Fords. one the Peerles,
and one the Dodge.
Fourteen were reported for thu
month Of June and of this number
there we're II Fords Seven were n
ohch Of the following type Fords
Truck. touring. runabout and coupe
Peerless Dodge aud Cadillac wer,
the other three stolen. Seven OF thi
number have t-een recovered. fv.
heing Tords. one Cadillac and IN.
other the Peerless
one Fore sedan has been stolen thi,
month. That is the only one reporte,
% The police for July