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Show AD.VISES AUTOISTS TO CROSS WIRES Ora Lewis, alleged leader of a band of three brothers who are held in St. Louis, charged with murdering two policemen, po-licemen, growing out of their activities activi-ties as automobile thieves, has told how-machine how-machine owners can prevent thieves from taking their machines. He laughed at the suggestion that safety locks, plates and other devices bother expert thieves. His remedy, as he told it, is: "Just cross your spark plug wires. Cross two of them and the cvlinder won 't hit. It will take a thief hours to find out what's wrong, but it won't take the machine owner but two minutes to cross the wires and make his machine safe.'' This theory is based on the principle that the success of au automobile thief depends upon a quick "get-away." |