Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1916 — This Chicago Policeman “Stepped on Something” [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

This Chicago Policeman “Stepped on Something”

CHICAGO. —“Step on something! Quick!” Policeman James Kessham, a volunteer at the wheel of a stolen and found flivver, which was being towed to the police station by the auto patrol, stepped. The flivver, the

engine of which was still running when it was found, gave a snort and a jump, leaped over the low curbing and started for the main entrance of Willard Hall,' where the Northwestern co-eds live. Remembering this as leap year, it changed bis mind and. darted into the street again. Kessham stepped again in a different place and the car shot toward the patrol, which dodged hastily. Tt made theother curb antiTarhed into the street again. A third time

Kessham stepped and the flivver stopped short. The tow line snapped. The policemen indulged in what passes in Evanston as profanity, retied the flivver and were off again. Kessham kept his feet on the dash, both hands on the wheel and both eyes on the road. A zig-zag trip to the station waa safely made, after which Kessham raised his right hand and vowed solemnly “Never again.”