Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1909 — DESERTS VICTIM OF AUTO [ARTICLE]

DESERTS VICTIM OF AUTO

School Girl With Broken Legs Put Upon Lonely Road. Hammond, Ind., July 20.—Run over and both legs crushed by a speeding automobile, lifted into the car by the chauffeur, who promised a crowd of angry citizens to take his victim to her home, and then abandoned on a lonely roadslde—this was the experience of Miss Hulda Soltwedel, a sixteen-year-old school girl of Hammond. As a result of her Injuries and the subsequent treatment at the hands of the chauffeur, the girl’s condition is so serious that her physicians say she may die. The Hammond and Chicago police meanwhile are searching for the driver of the machine, which bore an Illinois license with the number 18,809.