Spray officers while searching for two stolen cars unearth information which leads them to believe that there exists a well-organized gang of car thieves and bootleggers, blockaders, etc., operating in the Mountains in Henry and Patrick County, Virginia.
Officer DeHart with other officers have made several trips west of Bassett and around Pillpot. There is no telling what numbers of cars which were stolen in various sections of the country but principally in North Carolina have been taken into that section and sold or traded in for liquor. Two cars were found there this week, one stolen recently at Draper, the other at Leaksville Fair Week.
DeHart had a great experience yesterday, in fact more sad than great. He ran into a young married woman crying at the top of her voice in sad distress.
He went toward the spot whence came the distressing cry, fearing to find some woman being put to death. He offered her aid but she was not talkative and there was nothing he could do for her.
Finally he advised the young woman she must compose herself, that she could not stand such taking on.
Then it was that she told the officer from North Carolina that her own husband had just been arrested and carried back to Winston-Salem for trial.
One and two cars a week have been disposed of in that section, she said. Bootleggers and car thieves had broken up her home and her heart.
From the front page of the Tri-City Daily Gazette, Leaksville, N.C., Sunday, March 18, 1923
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