If You Are Missing a Chandler, Stop By Sheriff's Office, June 25, 1921

Auto and Liquor Are Captured. . . County Officers Take Up Car and Eight Gallons of Whiskey

The sheriff’s office is in possession of a handsome, good-as-new Chandler touring car and eight gallons of liquor, which were found Saturday morning at 1 o’clock seven miles from the city on a plantation belonging to J.B. McLaughlin, chairman of the board of county commissioners. The officers who made the haul were Deputy Sheriff Vic Fesperman and Rural Policemen C.G. Brown and Louis Johnson.

The officers Friday got in a Ford touring car belonging to the sheriff’s office and headed out East Seventh street and out the Monroe road. This was a little before midnight and the officers drove on the Monroe road about six miles. They drove into a by-path beside the main highway and parked there. They were following and working on a clue they had been nursing for some time.

About 1 o’clock the steady hum of a motor sounded, coming from Charlotte and the officers sat up and took notice. They detected the motor as one whose sound they had for some time been making themselves familiar.

They allowed the approaching car to pass on by and they followed at a considerable distance. As they had anticipated, the Chandler stopped when a point about the seventh mile post was reached and two men got out and went into a big thicket, wherein is an ancient mine pit, relic of the days when gold mining was a common pursuit in North Carolina.

Bringing their Ford to a halt beside the car, the officers ran into the thicket after the two men. There was only one miscalculation made by the officers. They had no idea that two ordinary men could make such speed through the thicket as did the two men they were after. They went through the thicket like a tornado and the officers found it useless to try to follow them.

The officers found eight gallons of liquor in fruit jars. They brought this and the Chandler car back to Charlotte. They are keenly awaiting to see who will claim the car. If no one calls for it, the sheriff’s office is in one good Chandler touring car.

The liquor was appraised good liquor as the white lightning variety goes. It will be poured in the sewer.

The officers went back to the thicket on the Monroe road Saturday morning to see what else could be found there.

From The Charlotte News, June 25, 1921. The car was later claimed by Bogue Crook, who said the car was stolen.