“There were more hungry burglars” — H&H Coffee Company truck theft, 12 one-pound packages stolen from vehicle parked on Staffel St. (The News, San Antonio, 21 September 1951)
A short police-blotter brief from The News (San Antonio) noting an overnight theft from an H & H Coffee Company truck — twelve one-pound packages of coffee taken from a vehicle parked on Staffel St. (Staffel Street runs through the near-west side of San Antonio, roughly five blocks west of the company’s 601 Delaware St. roastery, in the same near-west-side delivery district). The clipping is a small but useful witness that the company’s truck-based wholesale route (HH-CLIP-1943-0007 hired direct-to-retail route salesmen eight years earlier) was still operating in the early 1950s, parking trucks loaded with finished one-pound packages overnight in nearby city streets. The cropped trailing line “of” hints at a follow-up clause naming a person — possibly identifying an officer or witness — that the clip cuts off; the visible text ends mid-sentence.
Transcription
THERE WERE MORE hungry burglars at work during the night. H & H Coffee Company, 601 Delaware St., reported theft of 12 one-pound packages of coffee from one of its trucks. The vehicle was parked on Staffel St.
[clipping ends mid-sentence: “of” begins a trailing line cropped off below the visible area]
Source
- The News (San Antonio, Texas), Friday, 21 September 1951, page 27 — police-blotter brief.
- Newspapers.com: https://www.newspapers.com/image/1266774074/ (accessed 20 May 2026).
- Archive:
assets/pdfs/1951-09-21-the-news-hungry-burglars-h-and-h-coffee-truck-theft-staffel-st.pdf.
