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Show POLICE RECOVER 616 STOLEN AUTOMOBILES Secure Ninety Convictions Out of Ninety Theft dr.es Ecforo District and Juvcnilo Court. Recovering ''.Id ant mnold !es out of n total of P"J: Molen from .l.-inn.irv 1, l'.'ir. to November :to, 0 i 7 , and securing secur-ing ninetv convict ions out, of ninety i an I o stealing va ses br.-n gh t before the d i st rict and juvenile eu r ts, is t he icon! ic-on! of Sergeant .1. II. Warden and Motorcycle officer Kgbert and Wood-aid Wood-aid for period ending at midnight Friday. Fri-day. "Wii have recovered all but thirteen of the automobiles reported stolen dur ing that period,'' sribl Sergeant Warden yesterday, "und we have secured n conviction con-viction in every ease tried, but wo feel that autoists have not been giving u the support, we Mhould have in this work, because mi many of them fail to prosecute prose-cute the thieves when we apprehend them. We be i eve that we could have secured mil n v more con vie t ions had owners a ppea red and filed com pin i nt , but mo-it of them M.-em to lie Mitisti.-d to let, the mat t ey drop wIi-m we recover their machines for them." ' ' Cnrelcsnet on the part of enr owners in failing to place gear lock-on lock-on their nufhiues, continued the Ser-gennt, Ser-gennt, ,4is the pritifipal explanation for the n umber of thefts. If every owner equipped his car with a ynod fe:ir lock, Ihe thief would hnve to roll the machine n wa v bv hand or with a t en m, tinier he were n n n pert Jock sin i t h, and the number of nloleu curs would be greatly reduced." In addition to recover i ng Ci Hi st olon note hi nes, the s.piad under Sire ea u t Wji nlen also reeovered apiiroxima t ely two luirds of all the bicycles reported Mole., during t he snme pel iod. |