Show CAR THIEVES STUDY BEST METHODS TO PLY THEIR TRADE Average InCO Income o of Clever Crooks to Per Y Year cat car What hat does doc it profit a thief to steal an automobile Is h there any real money in motorcar motor motorcar car r stealing and if it so how is I it made These impertinent q questions and somo more like cm om which 1 Inquire very or person ly Into tho the homo home lives of oC somo some of ot our leading local auto thieves haVe hate been boen analyzed and answered b bythe by bytho tho the theft bUr bureau au of oC tho the Automobile club of ot Southern California An up-to-date up first-class first auto thief can and w ril steal from rom t fn ten l to fifteen cars a year car Ono One captured in his flight night from Crom Los Angeles neles with a stolen machine confessed to having stolen cars rs in a n j year a throughout the United States but this Is an ex exception exception ex- ex says sas the club theft then bureau and for tor the tho boyish bosh prank this thief thle do- do serves ser a statue of or himself In tho Hallof Hallor Hall Hallof of or Fame Faino o atno at It Washington ton The ten cars stolen b by the ordinary good crook are sold by bv him for Cor about apiece If It ho steals fifteen the same sarno ratio holds true trUc therefore the thief has an annual income of ot between and a year J Learns arn n Trade If It he is caught at any of or his major mayor operations ope he hc gets about one year in inthe the penitentiary While there he ho hasan h han has hasan an opportunity to learn a trade and ho docs does He lio learns a 3 mechanical trade which will help him when he gets out It helps him to be a better and wiser leer crook because he knows know more about autos than he ho over ever knew in n his life tIe before Furthermore he doesn't spend stand any mone money while ho lie is In tho the pen that year r. r and so his is clear velvet l et Stricter sentences for tor auto thieves thle should be bo possible in California There Thero Is a n. good r reliable lIable market marlet for tor stolen autos at this moment in Los Angeles An An- geles As fast as one market is found and pla placed ed in tho the discard another another another an an- other materializes s. s In fact tact Los Angeles San an Francisco Oakland Oaklan Portland and Seattle are de declared dc dc- cloyed by tho the authorities s to be tho the larest largest lar lar- or- or Best gest est stolen auto markets 1 In 1 tho the world Word They have ha no eastern competitors Motorists who wish to recover their cars after alter the they are taken had better I turn lurn in their slate state license numbers at once says sas the theft bureau or it will willbe willbe I I be too loo late and the only wa way to ha have ha havethe e ethe I i the individual numbers at nt hand for an enc emergency Is to have them recorded by the owners ot Send them to the Utah headquarters at once and they will be placed on file in case your our car carIs carIs caris is stolen In addition dont don't tor forget et that spring sprint Is here liege and the merry auto thief tiles like a a. gamboling lamb Is at his very vcr bestin best besl bestin beslin in the springtime lime so without fail inn put puta a private identification mark on your car so you ou can prove pro your our proper prop property when It is recovered by the auto club or the police |