Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1909 — NEW AUTO WHEELS [ARTICLE]

NEW AUTO WHEELS

And a Woman's Hat Floating in the River May Mean a Tragedy. Hammond, Ind., Nov. 15.-* Authorities at Water Valley, near Shelby, on the the Kankakee River, are aroused over an automobile mystery, involving the wrecking of an automobile and the possible drowning of the occupants. Yesterday Joseph Ernest, conductor on the Monon Railroad, while fishing in the river, saw a new automobile wheel with tire inflated floating down the river. He flshed it out and saw that the wheel had been broken from the axle. To-day Ben Fogll, proprietor of a river resort, ‘discovered another automobile wheel with tires all knocked out near the river bapk. John Struble, resident of Shelby. Jound a pair of automobile gloves and a woman's hat in the river near the wagon bridge where Ernest was fishing.