Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1919 — BOOTLEGGER WRECKS CAR AT 100 MILES PER HOUR. [ARTICLE]

BOOTLEGGER WRECKS CAR AT 100 MILES PER HOUR.

A high-powered racing car, loaded with booze and driven by Michael Blosky, a bootlegger, shot past Bernice, 111., at eighty miles an hour. Behind it, chugging along at seventy miles an hour and picking up rapidly, a speedster raced in pursuit with Sheriff Lew Barnes, of Lake county, at the wheel. In the opposite direction, toward Hammond, another car came along. “Fighting Dan” Boone, former state’s attorney, a descendant of the famous Indian fighter, was driving, and in the car was Chief A. A. Hielke, of the New York Central’s police. With the law behind and the law in front, Blosky stepped on the gas until his car picked up to 100 miles an hour. At this speed his auto collided with that driven by Boone. Boone probably will die. Heilke sustained minor injuries. Blosky and his two companions are being held. Both cars were completely wrecked.