Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1913 — HAPPENING IN THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENING IN THE CITIES

Young Women Take Wild Ride When Rein Breaks

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. —Miss Grace Mockford and Miss Edith Titnmerman, 3037 North Illinois street, were tempted outdoors by the delightful ■weather the other afternoon for what they planned to be a very restful and bracing drive over the boulevards. They were in a runabout and the horse they were driving was a spirited animal. At avenue, near Ohio street, the animal made a break, and immediately afterward things began to hap/pen. In fact, things happened on \Capitol avenue all the way north to Twentieth street, which is quite a distance. The two young women thought it was quite a distance, at least, and they never expect to drive through that thoroughfare in quite so dramatic a fashion again. When the horse found that one of the reins had parted he knew at once that the other was of no service, for he was a wise horse. He started to run, and made up his mind at the very

beginning to pay no attention to speed laws or interference of other kinds. Pedestrians ran out and tried to seize the bridle, but he paid no attention to them. Persons in other rigs tried to overtake him, but he left them far behind. Autdmobilists took up the chase, but the horse made the machines look as' though they were standing still. A colored man ran into'the middle of the street ant} tried to “flag” him with; a blanket. The horse clamped his teeth on the bits, laid back his ears and tried his best to run right square over the colored man. The colored man had to sidestep like a matador.

Finally, when the horse had passed Nineteenth street, a young man ran out, sizing up the situation as he ran. He saw that to tackle the front end of the runaway would be like plunging single-handed against a flying wedge; so he stood alongside and, as the rear end of the bugy passed, "he seized the top and vaulted into the vehicle. After that he climbed over the seat, over the dashboard, over the shafts and onto the horse’s back. With so much accomplished the remainder was easy. All he had to do was to reach over and catch hold of the rings on the ends of the bits and then jerk a Jpw times. -

The young man disappeared immediately after the excitement was over and his name was not learned.