Show I M MOTOR J T THEFTS fJ ON N 1 CREASE A f fI i J I r I N T A I Notwithstanding N Vigilance of Police More Automobiles Automo- Automo I ft biles Are Stolen in Salt SaltI La Lake C. C City Than Ever r I ESPITE the Hie fact that DESPITE JJ stolen machines ha have C been 1 recovered b by the thc police in Salt SaltI I Lake since January 1 I automobile are arc suffering from an In n thefts according to Detective De De- De t Jack Egbert expert In such matters This is due to the fact that organized gangs are arc operating throughout through through- out the country according to Egbert Ebert Three hundred and eighty eight automobiles have been stolen etolen In Salt Lake since 1 City January Twentynine Twentynine Twenty Twenty- I nine nine have hav not been recovered Statistics Statistics Sta Sta- I show how that the machines taken tram from the state most frequently are arc aretha tha smaller mAller and cheaper makes according ac- ac cording to the police Y The automobile thief I Is showing greater freAter activity than over ever this year car carIn In In almost every ery city In the United States jas as shown b by the lists of ot stolen may ma- chines s supplied the police CALIFORNIA EXPERIMENT i I 1 would recommend that Utah adopt a law which would assign a n. aJ J estate state automobile Investigator jO such uch a as has at present said ESbert Eg ES' bert When hen a visiting motorist arrives arrives ar ar- rives in California he Is given I en a aIs visitors visitors' visitors visitors' vis vis- IsI I license after his machine has been examined This license Is good for tor sixty or ninety days das After Arter this if It the visitor is still In tho the state slate Che he must take out a state license e. e j 1 hundreds of or automobiles stolen from other states arc are recovered when upon examination tho the examiner finds that the engine numbers have been altered or the car In some 1 manner I would also recommend a law Jaw which would allow the Ing ng of ot a suspicious machine that ls Is until tho the driver could absolutely prove provo ownership o ARREST OF HARRIS James Woodard and Jack Egbert Elbert have broken up several gangs o of au automobile AU- AU thieves Egbert Esbert made one of ot the best catches of or the year ear when he arrested Charles Harris at al South West Vest Temple street on July 31 according to Chief o of Police Pollee Joseph I Burbidge The police sa say that Harris and his r I gang ang were responsible for tor the disappearance disappearance disappearance of or eighteen automobiles several several sev sev- eral of which were altered and shipped out of or the state Harris is awaiting trial In the tho district court under bonds The poll police co 81 say say that he mn may also bo be Implicated In the largo larse number numb r o of safe safo i I robberies perpetrated last spring His criminal I I criminal record shows how ho he is s a confirmed coni con- con i firmed and daring crook according to tho the detectives I He was arrested three times In Utah I preceding his last arrest and served three thre terms la lit the tho Utah penitentiary CRIME OUTSIDE UTAH This is 15 his record of ot crime outside of Utah according to the tho police pollee A As Henry Benr P P. Carroll arre arrested ted at Kansas City Mo suspected as safe safe- blower April 24 1917 1017 May 17 1917 forfeited a bond In Justice Simmis Sim- Sim rals ral's court May IS forfeited a bond In Justice Clarks Clark's court As Henry Herry P P. Carroll arrested at St St. StLouis Louts Louis Mo Io July 20 1916 with Charles Charlesi i J. J I Fitzgerald alias alia Big FItz as safe blower sUspect Discharged In n police I court As Thomas Thoma OBrien O'Brien alias Harry I Carrol alias Frank Calvert received recel tat I at the tho United States Statts prison Leavens Leavenworth Leaven Leaven- s I worth Kan lan March MaTch 30 1909 from Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln Lin Lin- coln Neb eb Charged with counterfeit counterfeit- counterfeiting In ing and sentenced to three years cars years and six months Discharged December 10 1911 As Harry Haro Carroll arrested at St. St JoI Joseph Jo Jo- seph Mo January 2 2 1917 on a n. charge I of ot counterfeiting Sentenced to six Ix months In jail This man Is now wanted by Sheriff I at nt Yankton S S. S D D. C for r Jail breaking August 8 S 1912 as Frank CalI Cal- Cal I vert ert He lie with another prisoner b by bythe bythe the name of or W W. P. P Clansey overpowered o overpowered ered the jailer took H 45 from him and an automatic revolver according So to the report of or tho the police As S H. H P. P Carroll arrested at Houston Hous Hous- ton Tex December 17 1917 ch charged r ed edwith with disposing of ot mortgaged property Bound over o to the grand Jury jUT report of or disposition lacking As Henr Henry P P. Carroll arrested at Des DesMoines Moines Ia la January 18 IS 1918 charged d with stealing an automobile Also wanted at Kansas City Mo Io for bond forfeiture January 20 1918 1915 returned to Kan Kansas as City Out on bond to Jud Judge e PorterfIeld 2000 April April 9 9 1918 sen sen- tented to two years In the state prison at Jefferson Jetterson City by Judge PorterfIeld As H H. P P. Carroll Caroll arrested r a at K Kansas 1 a I I City City February 22 1918 March 11 bound over to the grand jury This man with others was implicated In inthe tho the burglary burglar of oC the Shomo Wholesale company Baird building of oC about aboul 1500 worth north of or cheap Jewelry Only a small part of ot It W was waa 8 recovered Fending Pending Pend Fend InS ing and no bond bone March larch 12 1918 discharged dla- dla 1 I charged by Justice Welch elch Still held 1 p on on bond forfeiture charge chare I Wanted at Fairbury Neb Nob for tor stealing steal steal- I steal steal-ing Ins ing automobiles and bond forfeiture under the name name QC of George H. H Trammel |