A heartless and benighted thief is abroad in the city, evidently. While a citizen was making a speech Tuesday night extolling charity as one of the greatest of the virtues, a miscreant stole his flivver and compelled the speechmaker to spend several dollars getting home--and that at quite a late hour.
It was Editor Julian S. Miller of The News who was the victim of an uncharitable and heartless thief. On Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock he was holding forth at the annual meeting of the Associated Charities organization on the meaning and blessedness of charity in general and of the blessedness, in particular, of generous support to the local organization. It was at the luncheon given at the Chamber of Commerce under the auspices of the charity organization at its annual meeting. Outside on the street he had left the flivver in which he covers the distance each day from charlotte to his home in the country, located at the intersection of the Providence and Sharon roads.
When he came out of the meeting at 9 o’clock and looked up and down the street, his car was not in sight. Could it be, he reasoned, that anyone could be so heartless as to steal the car of a man who had sacrificed an evening to talk about charity and to promote to the charitable idea? Perish the thought! Nevertheless, the car was missing, and he was forced to requestion an auto for hire to get home. There is no clue as to the identity of the thief who stole the Ford.
From The Charlotte News, Nov. 30, 1921
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