 | The Cavalier daily Tuesday, February 23, 1971 |  |
Students Report Thefts
During Weekend Revelry
By Neill Alford
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer
The Charlottesville Police Department
received reports of numerous thefts
occurring in the University area during
Midwinters Weekend.
A number of tapes were reported
stolen from a car parked on University
Circle and from a car in the Westminster
Presbyterian Church parking lot, and an
eight-track stereo tape player was found
missing from a car on 17th Street.
Automobiles were broken into on
15th and 16th Streets and purses were
reported taken from them. Some suits
and a doctor's bag containing items reportedly
worth several hundred dollars were missing
from a car in a parking lot. Two purses missing
from a car on 15th Street were recovered and
returned to the owners.
Mobile Rip-Off
Thieves broke into an automobile in a 15th
Street parking lot, taking a jacket and smashing
dashboard instruments valued at $100.
Additional incidents were reported on
Rugby Road and Madison Lane. A Mary
Baldwin student reported having a billfold
taken from her pocketbook on Rugby Road,
and in front of Phi Gamma Delta, on Madison
Lane, a suitcase with contents valued at $250,
including personal papers, credit cards, and
cash, was stolen.
A car accidentally caught on fire at Alpha
Tau Omega (ATO), and students there reported
the incident, but the fire was out by the time
police and fire department personnel arrived.
No charges were placed.
Returned Purse
A purse was taken from Kappa Sigma on
Saturday night. It was later returned by two
men, who reported that they found it tying in
their car. The contents, except for a missing
five dollars, were intact.
Some jackets and other clothes were also
reported stolen at Kappa Sigma. Also at the
fraternity a high school student was thwarted as
he allegedly attempted to remove some ashtrays
and a sofa cushion.
The University Department of Security
received no reports of incidents occurring on
the Grounds, however, and police received no
reports of any personal assaults on students.
| The Cavalier daily Tuesday, February 23, 1971 | |