Smyrna Times

MEN SEIZE LIQUOR VALUED AT $7,000
Force Driver Into Woods Near Glasgow and Flee With Captured Truck
TRAIL ED FOR MILES

It was revealed last Wednesday that hijackers early Wednesday held up the driver of a truck loaded with liquor, said to be valued at $7,000, enroute to Washington from Newark, N. J., on the Glasgow-Elkton Road and after forcing the driver into a woods drove off with the truck and its cargo. When the truck was passing through a woods two miles west of Glasgow about 4 A. M. a large touring car, going in the same direction, drew up alongside of the truck. Two men covered the driver with sawed-off shot guns and ordered him to pull over to the side of the road and stop. There were six men in the automobile and four of them had sawed off guns. They ordered the truck driver to get out and told him to get into the touring car. Two of the men then boarded the truck. The driver was taken several hundred yards down the road and then put out of the car. "We will give you just ten seconds to get out of sight," one of the men warned the driver, pointing to the nearby woods. The latter lost no time carrying out this order and one of the hi-jackers shot at him as he disappeared in the woods. The driver failed to see a barbed wire fence in his dash to save his life and was severely cut about the arms and face when he ran into fence. He fell to the ground and as he did he saw the hijackers drive off towards Elkton with the cargo of liquor. The truck driver walked into Glasgow at about 6 A. M. covered with blood, his shirt practically torn from his back by the barbed wire. Going to a garage he called a Newark, N.J., number by telephone and reported the hijacking. It is thought the man afterwards got an automobile ride to Newark, where he took a train to Newark, N. J. At the garage the truck driver intimated that a guard accompanied him as far as Wilmington in another machine but that he continued the trip from there alone. He declined to give his name and refused to make a report of the hold-up to the police. It is understood the police learned of it late Wednesday but failed to locate the truck load of liquor. The truck driver expressed the belief at the garage that he had been trailed all the way from Newark, N. J., by the hijackers who waited for the opportune time to stage the hold-up. The man said he lost his gun and a pocketbook containing $70 while running in the woods. He said he had no opportunity to use his gun as the men in the touring car covered him with their guns before he had a chance to pull his revolver. His revolver was later found in the woods but if money was found no report has been made of it. The liquor is said to have been in cases and bags.