Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-02
POLICE TO ATTEST
SPEED MAD SCOTT
WARRANT ALSO IS ISSUED
AGAINST KENO
Death Valley Mystery Has Disappeared
but Is Said by His Physicians
to Be Recovering
Slowly

arrest of scotty and Fred Keno, his
chauffeur. for the achievements oil
Monday night. L
officers were unable to locate the
Death valley mystery yesterday, anu anu
his financial manager and hacker, Rol
King. assumed a sphinx-like pose
when oueried as to the state of MS
mind relative to Scotty's probable
whereabouts.
Police Justice Rose granted the re-
quest of the public prosecutor yester-
day for warrants for Scotty and Keno
in which they are charged WIN Nlo-
lating the speed ordinance.
Patrolman Mojonnier is the official
who carries the documents, but he has
been unable to fasten his gaze upon
the millionaire mystery, although Keno
was not difficult proposition.
Patrolman Mojonnier made ylslt
to the scene of the accident yesterday,
and relates that residents along the
route assert that Scotty's benzine
n wagon was surely making between
fifty and one hundred miles an hour
at the time of the disaster.
Scotty's attorneys have not been aple
to figure out Just by what method these
residents calculated the speed of the
auto, since it was extremely dark along
the route and no lights were showing
from the machine.
Occupant Tells OF speed
However one of the occupants OF
the ill-fated machine is authority tor
the statement that it was going so
fast that he failed to see the. bridges
over which the party passed while
aboard the car. ...
The estimates of not less than fly
miles an hour for the entire Journey
may be correct, as one OF the Vlclilns
declares he had a speedometer fastened
to his trousers, and that TINS speed
register shows that at some stage OIL
the trip. probably while the attached
person was flying through space, a
speed of 987 miles per hour is regis
tered.
The report that several pedestrians
shouted to the screeching and hyins
automobile to slacken speed is propaply
an inaccuracy. 1t was proceeding at
sIch a rate at all times when 1t was
in a actual motion that only small per-
Q ntage of humanity iI' a possible thou
&. I'D could have disti' .uished the form
of the machine or | sufficient time
in which to hazard n fragmentary
conversation with dny of the ocf :
pants.
The cushion which is reported to ha 'e
been found at point where the auto
was 'dashlng along the highway at It's
death dealing rate of speed was lost
from the seat sometimes occupied by
Scotty. but when it fell from the auto
the machine was making one or its
slowest runs--not to exceed SIX or
seven miles an hour-but Scotty would
not hear to any suggestion of stopping
to recover so cheap and insignificant
an object as an ordinary cushion.
The cushion was lost a few seconds
before the crash in which the four oc-
cupants picked up few scratches ana
bruises and became famous forever by
their narrow juggling with death.
Scotty said Monday night that he
had $500 with which to pay fines, and
If the combined penalties and costs do
, not exceed this amount the officers will
have failed in doing out adequate
punishment Of a sufficient degree to
cause the mystery to ponder before
undertaking similar excursion.
DR.. r. F. Stovall, who is official sur
geon in charge of the millionaire speed
aspirant. reported yesterday that
Z Scotty was probably out of the range
of death possibility for the present
time, but would not be able to appear
in court for several days.
Judging from Scotty's delight while
the light auto was smashing records
and dashing up and down hills and
over corduroy roads at a rate of speed
sufficient to cause Vanderbilt system
officials to commit harikari from sheer
enviousness and jealousy there is only
one possibility which may cause him
to abandon his greed for speed records
in auto or otherwise. and that is a sud-
den and unheralded visitation from the
fool killer
Should Scotty be apprised that the
fool killer was seeking him the mystery
would doubtless buy an auto and run
the aforesaid killer race, with odds
that he would win.
Rol King said last night that "Scotty"
was not in hiding but was simply con-
cealing his whereabouts In order to
avoid the persistent visits Of his many
friends.
~ King further stated that IL the police
were looking for "Scotty" and would
come to him and show a warrant for
the arrest of the miner he would take
them to the bedside of the injured man.
While he disapproves of "Scotty's''
foolhardy action in seeding wildly
about in the night, King says 1t is his
intention to protect his friend from the
annoyance of scores of callers.