Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1912 — Fearful Ending of Joy Ride. [ARTICLE]

Fearful Ending of Joy Ride.

While on a joy ride Sunday evening, six persons, two men and four women, in an auto going thirty miles an hour, plunged to their death at 2 a. m., Monday when they run into am open draw at 92d street, South Chicago, and the big touring car and its occupants were carrjed into the slimy depths of the Calumet river. A reckless chauffeur, who “borrowed”- the machine from his employer, a Mts. Spaulding of Chicago, without her knowledge, was responsible for the fatal accident. Fortunately he was drowned with the others of the joy party. Only one body, that of a young woman about 22 years of age, and thought to be Anna Mahoney, daughter of a Chicago policeman, had been recovered up to Monday night.