Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1913 — LUCAS WANTS CASH FROM AUTO DRIVER [ARTICLE]

LUCAS WANTS CASH FROM AUTO DRIVER

Former Union Township Man Still After Centaur Company and Arthur M. Robbins;

Joseph A. Lucas, formerly of Union township, has brought action in the Marion county superior court against the Centaur Motor Co., of Chicago, and Arthur M. Robbins and George Miller, officers of the company, for damages alleged to have been sustained by Mrs. Lucas when the Buggy jn Which she and Mrs. Jack riding was overturned near Virgie because of the reckless driving Robbins was doing. The story will be recalled by most of the readers of The Republican. Mrs. Lucas and her companion were returning home from a trip to Rensselaer and Rbbbins was cqming this way and driving his car at a high rate of speed. He drove so closely to the buggy the ladies were in that it was forced into' the ditch and overturned. Robbiilß did not stop to help the women but rushed on and would have gotten away save for a breakdown that occurred just north of Rensselaer. He was there apprehended by Marshal Mustard and detained until Lucas arrived and started proceedings against him. Lucas seemed to want damages more than anything else and the prosecuting attorney did not care to use his office as q means of enforcing an adjustment of that kind, so the case was about to be dropped. Robbins telephoned to Chicago for a hew part to replace the broken part of his machine. It was brought to him on the early morning train the next day and he hastened out of town. Lucas, however; was" unrelenting and caused Robbins’ arrest in Indianapolis and he, gave bail for his appearance here at the next term of the circuit court, when he was fined SSO and costs, which he paid.

Lucas and his wife, who pulled hard together during the prosecution, proved to have only a veneer of love, however, for the day the trial concluded she filed a complaint for divorce and made sensational charges against him. The divorce was granted and it is reported that he has since been living with a former wife. They all left Union township soon afterward and now, live in Indianapolis. How Lucas can expect to collect damages for any injuries his divorced wife might have suffered, and it was understood at the time that she was not hurt in the least, we can not understand. An Indianapolis atorney, Harvey J. Elam, was in Rensselaer Thursday taking depositions in the case and Jack Reder, George Cover, Richard Gassaway and Allie Florence were examined, the record belong taken by Court Stenographer McFarland. The testimony was very favorable to Lucas, it is understood.