Deputy Sheriff Honeycutt seized a Ford roadster near Concord yesterday afternoon after its occupants had deserted it. The seizure was made after Mr. Honeycutt had chased the roadster for several miles.
While driving on the Poplar Tent road, Mr. Honeycutt stated, he saw the Ford standing in the road with one man in it and another standing behind it. He slowed down to see if he could help and as he did so, the man jumped in the car and the driver whirled and started back to town.
Mr. Honeycutt’s car was almost across the road, but the driver ran his roadster on a bank and opened up with all the Ford had. When Harris street was reached the driver turned in with Mr. Honeycutt only a short distance behind.
The road struck at the end of Harris street was not so smooth and after traveling it for about half a mile the Ford occupants decided to trust their feet rather than the car. They left the car in the road and took to Raleigh in an effort to locate its owner.
Why the men ran, Mr. Honeycutt does not know, for he found no liquor in the car. He says he suspects the car had been stolen.
From page 2 of The Concord Daily Tribune, May 27, 1926
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