Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1915 — Auto Wins In Train Race. [ARTICLE]

Auto Wins In Train Race.

After a mad race, covering 18 miles, between an express train on the Laurel line and a high-powered automobile, which had been requisitioned by Chief of Police Roberts of Wilkes-Barre, the latter captured a man accused of flimflam ming a Wilkes-Barrean as he stepped from a train in Scranton, Pa. The fugitive got away with a tenminute start, but the big racing car cut down the running time, and the officers were waiting at the station here for their man, who was taken back to W’ilkes-Barre. The running time of the train was 35 minutes, and the automobile traveled a little more than a mile a minute to overhaul it. —Scranton Dispatch to Philadelphia Record.