The sheriff’s office here today announced that Cabell C. Cooke, formerly proprietor of a garage in this city, was being held on $1,000 bail at Lakeland, Fla., on a charge of larceny of an automobile here. Cooke, it was stated, left this city last Thursday night in a car believed to have been the property of The Kinston Free Press or the local Welfare Department. There was no conclusive identification of the car.
The sheriff’s office said it had been informed by Lakeland authorities that the car in which Cooke left this city had been stolen from him at Tampa on Friday. Authorities here considered it improbable that Cooke could have arrived at Tampa within 24 hours of his departure from Kinston. Cooke is well-known here. He is a former minor league baseball player.
From page 5 of The Daily Free Press, Kinston, Feb. 12, 1923
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