Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1914 — BRYCE WHITTAKER INJURED BY ACCIDENT [ARTICLE]

BRYCE WHITTAKER INJURED BY ACCIDENT

Former Jasper County Boy Acting As Deputy Sheriff When Auto Wont Into the Ditch.

The Lake County Times gives the following account of an auto accident that occurred Tuesday evening and in which Bryce Whittaker, a nephew of Sheriff Henry Whittaker, of Lake county, was injured. The Whittakers formerly lived at Wheatfield. The article tn The Times has a Grown Point date line and reads as follows: "A badly battered Overland roadster and three badly shaken and bruised men, a sheriff posse, Bryce Whitaker, nephew of Sheriff Henry Whitaker, Will Heinze, of this city, and Frank Brown, of Lowell, were brought here last night, to tell the tale of one of the luckiest automobile accidents happening in this section for some time. The three men started out in Heinze’s ear after supper last evening to respond to a call from Dyer, stating that a robbery had occurred there. “As the machine neared the BohlIng larm on the Crown Pointßt. Johns road, gping at a fifty-two mile clip, Heinze, the driver, seemed to lose control and the fast little car left the road for the ditch, where it plowed its way for nearly a hundred yards, only stopping when it struck a bridge - on the roadside, literally tearing the structure to fragments. “Brown was hurled out of the car and thrown Into the ditch, the car passing over his body, causing him quite severe and most painful wounds. Whitaker was thrown into a wire fence along the roadside but Was not seriously injured. Although It was necessary for him to use crutches today, Helze stuck to the steering wheel until the machine struck the bridge, the Impact throwing him into the steering wheel Dr. Houk attended the injured men and Brown was taken immediately to his home at LowelL”