Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1913 — VISITING MOTORCYCLIST IS ARRESTED HERE [ARTICLE]

VISITING MOTORCYCLIST IS ARRESTED HERE

Charged With Running Intq Child at Crown Point and Seriously Injuring the Little One. Shortly after the arrival of the North Shore Motorcycling Club here today the marshal received word from Crown Point to arrest the driver of machine No. 22, who it was claimed had run into a little child there and, seriously injured it. Marshal Shesler and Nightwatch Oritser started ,to find the man but there was no machine bearing that number among the fprty here, but there was a machine bearing no number and the driver of it, who gave his name as “Harry Jacobs, was arrested and the marshal took him to Lowell this afternoon and turned him over to the Crown Point officers. Jacobs denied that he was the man wanted, and that he had no knowledge that any such accident had happened. The officers thought they had the right man, however, and made the arrest.