Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1913 — MOTORCYCLIST WAS FINED AT CROWN POINT [ARTICLE]

MOTORCYCLIST WAS FINED AT CROWN POINT

Cost Him $47 For Exceeding Speed Limit and Running Over Small Boy Saturday. The motorcyclist arrested here Saturday and who gave the name of Harry Jacobs, was taken to Lowell Saturday afternoon by Marshal Shesler. He was there met by an officer and taken to Grown Point to answer the charge of exceeding the speed' limit. He had hit aiid knocked down a small boy at Crown Point and left the lad unconscious in the street. At first it was thought that the lad was dead and officers at Crown Point telephoned to Lowell to arrest the driver of motorcycle No. 22 dead or alive. The marshal of that town and another officer stretched a rppe across the street and when the motorcyclist and a companion came along demanded that they stop. They sped away instead and the Lowell marshal shot three times and one bullet passed through the trouser leg of the man wanted* but did not strike the leg. He denied here that he was the man wanted, he having thrown away the number 22 given him as a contestant in the motorcycle endurance test. He was arrested and a description telephoned to Lowell and indications pointed to him being the man wanted and he was taken to Crown Point. The boy in the meantime had regained consciousness and proved not to be seriously injured, although a part of his scalp was missing. The motorcyclist had given a false name here, his right name being Russell. He was fined $47, which he paid and he came here Sunday morning and got his motorcycle and proceeded on his way.