The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-16
TALES AUTO CHASERS HEAB.
MAN IN THE CAR ALWAYSSURE
THE cor rs WRONG.
Tricks to Prove That He wasn't Sped dlng
or 70 Get Him on IL h Eviden,,e Ii
Too strong-The HysteFicai Girl. the
ned Cross, the Fixed speed0aT ieter.

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Red Cross, the Fixed speedou seter.
It's pretty hard to tell anything new to
a bicycle policeman. because In the course
Of duty he hears about all that's going In
the line Of stories and excuses.
The captured automobiles Is generally
very certain that the policeman 10 wrong
about his speeding. and sometimes he
digs UP an excuse that gets him away for
that time anyway.
Sergt. Ben Mallam. who L. at the head
Of the motorcycle men In Manhattan; Lieut..
Tom Mcdonald. who runs the squad in
Brooklyn and Queens. or any one OF a dozen
or more policemen On similar duty have
interesting things to tell about the folks
they capture.
One young man who lvea down around
Sheepshead Bay wal in the habit Of going
pretty fast in his car and several times he
ran afoul Of the motorcycle policemen.
But as he had shown himself decent enough
the men didn't want to take him In I'M
necessarily often.
One evening the young chap came down
the road doing about forty miles an hour.
something more than the squad could stand
for. 30 they arrested him.
well, the minute / rode up alongside"
said the policeman whD did it, n girl who
was in the car beside him. a peach. began
to shrek and boiler like anything. She
squirmed around and made On she was
having a fit Of Mysteries. She was crying
out about having her fellow arrested. and,
to look at her you'd think she was In a
mighty bad way.
well, the chap turned to me and said.
Say, you're not going to arrest me With
my girl as bad Of as all this are your 1t
looked like a bad case, and after fgnring
it all over I told him to go along this time.
but to out II a little slower next time.
"This chap was one Of those who couldn't
keep his head shut and soon II was going
all over Sheepshead Bay. 1t was all a
plant. He had the girl coached to do all
that hysterical business because he knew
he could get away with 1t il she laid II on
strong enough. He was talking about it
everywhere and thought he had a good
joke OF the police.
Before it gotgoing very far another chap
who heard Of it tried 1t on. was riding
up the road when 1 saw a machinestoppedby
a motorcycle man and / rode UP. There
wa this same performance going on. but
as I'd had some Of the kidding about the
first fellow l didn't lose this mt
Il tipped of the other policeman about
the trick Of q week g n he took the
man in. 1t was wonderful tho way that
woman came out OF her mysteries the mo-
ment she understood that it was all of
and no use to try any MORE
One Of the ~motorcyolists was watching
Broadway near Eighty-sixth street one
afternoon when along came a car decorated
with the red cross front and rear to mark
that it was a DOCTORS. There isn't anything
that a cycle policeman likes less than one of
those signs. They have no value in earning
the owner immunity. but the driver is al
ways trying to get away on the strength
OF them. The hospitals have changed their
CROSSES to green and the police have served
warning that the red crosses might as we'll
be taken of.
This Doctors car was going close to
thirty-five miles an hour. which is something
like four times the limit in that %neighbor-
hood. The motorcycle man rode out and
stopped the car.
I'm on a life and death CASE declared
the driver, who looked like a doctor. and
means a lot
"In that case said the policeman. go
ahead. won't interfere"
cu ~ thO III VI - NV
The motorcycle man had his suspicious
and he wheeled over to West End avenue
and started uptown himself. He kept the
automobile in sight between blocks and
finally turned through a street in the Hun
dreds, when he saw that the car apparently
was not going up any further.
The automobile was standing in a side
| street. near a we'll known restaurant. The
| cycle policeman went into an a~paressnt
house near where the car was and asked the
hallboy II any one had come In from the
| street recently. The boy answered "No."
Then the cycle man went around to two
| or three likely looking places, with the same
| result. and then he ven where his instinct
had told him from the first he would likely
| find the doctor. There he was in the res
taurant.
With hin were two women with whom the
| doctor wal laughing. A waiter was just
| bringing in one Of those iced buckets. and the
doctor apparently was getting ready to
make an afternoon Of 1t.
The bicycle man went out on the street
and got the policeman on post. Together
they returned to the restaurant, Just as the
doctor and his friends took their first sip
and the doctor lighted up q cigar.
is this the life and death case, doctor2'
asked the bicycle man, as he walked up to
the table.
The physician was fused for the moment,
but soon recovered his oomposure.
ooh, I've been there already. ' he said.
That was too much for the cycle man and
he arrested the doctor then and there.
A man was arrested OF back Of Brooklyn
one afternoon by policeman who had timed
him at forty miles an hour.
The man protested that he hadn't been
going anything like that fast. and % on.
through the usual tale. On the way to the
station house the policeman was riding
where he could see the speedometer on the
automobile. 1t was one Of those which
have q red hand to mark the maximum
speed, and the policeman noticed that this
hand pointed to forty miles an hour.
why. look there he said to the auto
mobilist, the hand on your maximum
speed shows you were doing forty. Just
what I told you.'
'oh. that came back the driver IN a