FOUR JAILED IN OPENING DRIVE
Six Autos Found Monday With Parts Removed; Officers Get Busy.
Throwing the entire force of the sheriff’s department into action. Sheriff Jim Stevens and his chief deputy, Alfonse Newton went out Monday to round up the biggest car stripping gang which has ever operated in San Antonio.
Finding of six cars Monday morning which had been stripped down to everything but the frame, brought about the determination to clean up the gang. Four arrests were made during the forenoon.
REMOVE ENGINES.
Even the engines were removed and the upholstery torn from the seats by the thieves.
Deputy Harry Norton was working on a case where a Center Point car was found stripped on the Palo Alto road. Deputy Tony Diaz found a stripped car on the Elmendorf road near the automobile “graveyard” discovered several weeks ago.
DESERT SEDAN.
A big sedan was found near Selma, but it was the only one which had not been stripped. Deputies Charles Peters and Henry Garcia found another sedan on the Seguin road which had been stripped.
Another car was found on the Burbank road Monday morning. Last week twelve cars were found near the city which had been stripped and officers believe that the same gang stole the six cars Sunday night. This gang took two cord tires from a car belonging to P. W. Poston during the night, while the car stood near his place of business.
San Antonio Light, San Antonio, TX, April 19, 1926