The small car of W.M. Rhyne refused to be stolen Saturday night after it had been lifted from the streets by a miscreant who immediately headed West with it and came to grief at the Southern station the machine evidently sensing the fact by that time that it was not in the hands of its rightful driver.
The car cut various capers about the tracks at the station, according to observers who saw it caroming as it came in their direction and finally plow in nose into the high embankment (word obscured) just West of the tracks.
What became of the driver is still puzzling officers who were called to the scene and found the machine in such plight that a big truck had to be requisitioned to give it back its moorings.
Mr. Rhyne had notified the police station immediately that he discovered his loss and shortly thereafter police officers reported over telephone to the station that the car had been found in a wrecked condition, still involved in the red clay of the embankment.
From The Charlotte News, Sunday, March 12, 1922
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