Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — SET A TRAP FOR WHEELMEN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SET A TRAP FOR WHEELMEN.

Louisville Mischief-Maker Shows Ingenuity in Deviltry. Last week, says the Louisville Times, we warned wheelmen against the gutters dug in the Chestnut street cinder

path by an unscrupulous property-own-er in order to wreck wheels. It turns out that this was not the full extent of the malice displayed, but that in addition to the ditches a series of carefully placed tlre-punctUrers had been laid on the path. A sketch of one of these is given. It was picked up by W. A. Thomas. As will be seen the apparatus consisted of a block of thick leather through which tacks have been run. This was carefully nailed into the path. In order to make assurance doubly sure several new tacks were also scattered along the path. Several wheelmen, who have been sufferers from these ditches and the tacksare talking of uniting and instituting proceedings against tho perpetrator of the outrage for malicious destruction of property.

BICYCLE TACK.