Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 100, Hammond, Lake County, 14 October 1920 — Page 10

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STEEPEST GRADE . IN AD1R0NDACKS

Society folks and others at such famous New York Summer Resorts as Saranao Lake. Massena. Lake Placid and Plattsburs havo & new .topic of conversation this year. They are talking about the first motor car to ascend Kiudley Hill in high gear, a feat which hundreds of them witnessed recently. The car that finally turned the trick was a Studebaker Big-Six driven fcy J. Frank Sharp, of Opdonsburs, N.

b.ua just 10 show that the perform

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he intended to essay the climb with his Studebaker in high sear, speculation was rife anions those at the various exclusive summer resorts as to the outcome of the tost, and few believed it could be accomplished. Hundreds of them turned out for the occasion, and much to their surprise the Studebaker with Mr. Sharp at the wheel and another passenger at his side wormed

its way up the long, steep, twisting road. The car began Us journey at SO miles an hour, reached the crest at Ui miles an hpur. and never once did 'ts speed drop below 15 miles an hour druing the climb.

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brush within a block of her home. Sh had never regained consciousness to tell the story of the attack or to givo the police a description of htr murd

erer.

Mis Bowers was found shortly be

fore ft o'clock by a man and his wife,

who were attracted by the girl's groans as they were passing near the

scene of the crime. They found the

girl, lying unconscious in a pool or

blood. Her body h.nt ben well concea'td in the brush r't'c ar.d there wn f-vldence that she had been dragged about 20 feet, probably from the place where she was first accosted. Her small purse lay empty near her side and her clothing was torn and her arms scratrhed. telling the story of a terrlfis f?ght.

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ance was due to the power of the car l ather than to any element of luck. Mr.

"uccrePssr.e0n?ated the clImb flve t,mes laj Girl Dies in Hospital After

a Fiendish

Srudley Hill ts known to thousands of tourist3 as the .steepest grade in the Adirondacks. Located near Malone, N. Y.. it is 1900 feet aifjh and more than a mila long:. Motorists have been awed by Its steepness and alarmed by its sharp turns. Some of th more skillful drivers have at times tried to make the ascent in high gear, but have beon forced to shift before they got one-third of the way up. When Mr. Sharp made it known that g.1 .

Attack

I INTERNATIONAL NEWS-SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. Oct. 14. Beaten unconscious by an unknown assailant, who used a rouyh stone for a weapon, Dorothy Bowers, 17 years old, Minneapolis girl ,ded in the general hospital early today, a few hours after she was discovered in a pile of

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