Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — Roselawn Party In Auto Accident. [ARTICLE]

Roselawn Party In Auto Accident.

J. Wi Crooks, the Roselawn druggist who was arrested some time ago on several indictments charging the illegal sale of liquof, was fined $lO and costs on one of the charges at Kentland Monday. It is reported that the other indictments will be dismissed. While Mr. Crooks and John Parker and family and Mrs. D. K. Frye were returning home from the trial at Kentland in an automobile, the machine was overturned and all were more or less injured, a 7-year-old son of Mr. Crooks getting one leg badly iractured and splintered and the flesh terribly lacerated. Mrs. Frye also was cut considerably about hte face and was unconscious for some time. The boy was taken to a Chicago hospital for treatment. Mr. Parker was driving the car, which is said to have ben running at a very high rate of speed, was unconscious, it is said, until Tuesday morning. The accident occurred on a perfectly level road about one mile west of Roselawn.