Monroe Enterprise
Thursday evening of last week, about 9 o’clock, two men and a woman in a Ford touring car stopped at A.C. Small’s garage on Wadesboro avenue and asked for gas and oil. After seven gallons of gas and a half gallon of oil had been furnished, the occupants of the car left without paying. Mr. Small jumped into his big service car and gave chase, overhauling them near A.H. McLarty’s four miles east of town. The party would not stop, and Mr. Small ran around them and ditched them, damaging the radius rods and steering gear to such extent that they could not proceed further. The two men wanted to pawn their overcoats or anything they had in payment for the gas and oil, but Mr. Small suspected them to be a bunch of thieves and he had Mr. McLarty to call for the officers. The two men started to run, but the woman prevailed upon them not to desert her. Rural Policeman Frank Niven and Will Armfield were soon on the scene. The two men and the woman were brought to jail and locked up. Friday Sheriff Fowler learned that the Ford car had been stolen from Will Elm at China Grove. The men gave their names as George Tate and Monroe Tate, and their home Camp Bragg. The woman was Minnie Mangum and her home Rockingham.
Sheriff Crowder of Rowan County came Friday and carried the men back with him. The woman went to her home at Rockingham as there was no evidence that she was implicated in the theft of the car.
From page 2 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, April 21, 1925
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