Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1913 — FARMER, COMPANION AND AUTO All DRUNK [ARTICLE]

FARMER, COMPANION AND AUTO All DRUNK

Reckless Driving at Lafayette Resulted in Arrest of Man Who Drove Car on the Walk. Lafayette Journal. , A farmer by the name of Ralph Kennington, with a woman companion, Marguerite Land, created some degree of excitement yesterday afternoon about 3 o’clock. The people were in a nautomobile and as the party turned the comer Of Fifth and Ferry streets the driver commenced a series of extraordinary acrobatic stunts. He ran the car up on the sidewalk and then took a flying leap back into the street. He repeated this unusual performance several times and finally came to a standstill at the rear entrance to the Rapp A Klein cigar store. Captain Powell and Detective William Weinhardt were witnesses of the escapade and upon investigation they discovered the two were far from the line of sobriety. The officers arrested the man and his feminine friend and they were slated as intox.