Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1907 — HE “STOPPED” ON THE RETURN TRIP. [ARTICLE]

HE “STOPPED” ON THE RETURN TRIP.

Lake County Star:Considerable excitement whs stirred up at Black Oak last Sunday, by a Chicago Hutomobile driver who run into Louie Swing’s buggy from pure carelessness, smashing the vehicle and dumped Louie and wife and child on the ground. The machine never, slackened. All the surrounding towns were wired to catch the fellow, but be went on to Valparaiso unmolested. When returning in the afternoon a Hobart telephone notified them that he was on the return trip, and twenty citizens at Black Oak met him in the road with shot guns. He stopped under protest, but was glad to get out of it and be allowed to pass on after paying $35. He proved to be the demonstrator for the Matherson Automobile Company in Chicago, and it is said he had already run over two men and a boy in Chicago before this escapade. None of the Ewing family were hurt.