Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1908 — Automobile Drivers Halted Here. [ARTICLE]

Automobile Drivers Halted Here.

Two men driving a Holtzman high wheeled automobile, bearing the number Ohio 1629, were apprehended in Rensselaer Thursday evening and com pelled to settle for damages they were responsible for a buggy near Lowell. According to what we can learn about the accident, the automobile drivers were en route from Crown Point to Lowell, and overtook a buggy occupied by a man about 60 years of age, and by two ladies. They sounded the auto horn and tried to so scoot by the buggy, but struck a wheel and broke it and the buggy let the occupants fall out. The men wanted to take the slightly disabled occupants of the buggy on to Lowell with them, but they declined to ride in the auto and went to another place near by anil procured another rig. The autoists promised to wait in Lowell until they got there and then to adjust the damages, but before the man owning the buggy reached town, the autoists had left. He then hired the town marshal to start out in another auto In pursuit and phoned on to Rensselaer to have the parties halted here. Marshal Parks and Special Officer Vick caught them as they entered Rensselaer and they were detained until the Lowell officer and his deputy arrived. They then put up sls for the damage they had done. If they had been on the square they might have settled for $5 at Lowell.