The Ford roadster belonging to W.M. Sanders and son, which was stolen about two months ago from Mr. Nat Rand’s place near town, was recovered and brought back to Smithfield last Friday. It was found at Elizabethtown in Bladen county where Willis Web of Meadow Township had carried it and was using it as his own property. It is said that no one in Bladen county suspected that the car did not belong to him until he was sought by authorities from Johnston, Harnett and Bladen counties on a charge of stealing cotton. When the officers approached him, he jumped out of the car and left it in the road, making his escape through the woods. Later he was arrested by Mr. Massengill, deputy sheriff of Meadow Township, and was brought here to jail Saturday. He is still in jail awaiting trial in Recorder’s court this week.
The car was advertised soon after it was stolen but, Webb not being under suspicion, the car was not reported. It is said that he had been staying a few miles beyond Elizabethtown where it was thought he was scouting around, evading officers. The roadster was said to be in a damaged condition, having been used considerably since it was stolen.
From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 1925
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