By International News Service
Greensboro, Aug. 21—A story of how a house was knocked from its foundation by a speeding driverless auto and the occupants now awakened by the crash is told by detectives who recovered a stolen automobile a few nights ago.
Two negroes were fleeing in a stolen car. Officers were in hot pursuit. The cars were racing down a short street at 65 miles an hour. Suddenly the two auto thieves left the car, leaped over a bluff and the car careened, jumped a curbing and knocked a small house off its foundation.
The car thieves escaped.
Officers went into the house to see if any of the occupants were injured.
A little boy, a man and his wife were sound asleep. Officers awakened them and told them of the wreck. They returned to bed.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 21, 1926
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