The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-07-20
OTHER AUTO MISHAPS
TAKE PLACE YESTERDAY
Dolton Lawyer Steers Car Into Calu-
met River In Order to Avoid Injury
to People and His Story Is De-
cided Contrast to Eye Witnesses
Of the Accident.

Disregarding all rules of the public
Highway, going at an enormous speed,
and spilIing the family of Peter
Kickert into a ditch south of Ham,
mond, four occupants of a big read
automobile who had caused the acci-
dent continued ON their way without
stopping to see what had become of
their victims.
The accident to Peter Kickert and
his family who live at Highlands, hap
iponed yesterday morning about 1880
while the parents and their two daugh-
ters, Alice and Josephine. were on their
way TO Lansing to attend church there.
COLLISION A SAVAGE ONE.
Near Stallbaums c5rner Kickert
turned the corner to go toward Lansing
when from the opposite direction came
a big red touring car marked III. No.
No. 20.
It's speed was so high and the turn
so short that a collision could not be
avoided and the Kickert family were
the victims. -Four men were in the
auto and seeing what they had ac-
fcomplished turned on full speed and
hurried away from the scene of the
accident. The car was going at the
rate of so miles an hour
BUGGY WAS DEMOLISHED.
The buggy was demolished in the
collision and the horse ran away All
four occupants We're thrown into the
ditch and were more or less bruised up
Peter Kickert broke one of his fingers
while one Josephine. one of the daugh-
tiers. injured her elbow Mrs. Kickert
too was scratched up.
Sheriff Fred Carter. the police al
Hammond, Jim Gill at Hobart and the
Valparaiso authorities were at once
notified to be on the lookout for a
big red touring car marked Ill. 20"
containing four men.
The automobile registration office in
, Chicago was notified that such ma
chine was wanted in Indiana and il
was found that a Chicago car owned
by Walter r. Smith a jeweler living
at 1929 State street had a car which
| bore the lettering III. 10"
VI. ROTHsCHILD on SCENE.
About five minutes after the accident
Mr. and Mrs. Rothschild of Hammond
came by the scene of the accident in
their electric runabout They the in
possible under the circumstances, and
Mr.. Rothschild took it upon himself to
notify the authorities
The report of the accident spread
Z, fast through the neighborhood and in
dignation was at a high pitch owing to
. the reckless driving The accident Of
yesterday is not the first of its kind.
: The farmers Of Lake county have set
81, al int ~
passing the automobiles on the roads,
, but they do strenuously object to reck-
less driving and specially such a show
- of Of in-breeding as was exhibited
, yesterday when the occupants in the
= car continued on their journey without
8 Offering any assistance.
RAN HIS MACHINE INTO RIVER.
q In direct contrast to action Of the
L people in the red car yesterday was
Y that of ". F. Proper of Dolton, ar
E attorney practicing IN Chicago. but
well known in Hammond.
It To avoid striking a surrey in which
- a woman and six children We're riding
d Mr.. Proper ran his automobile down a
# tt firty-foot embankment into the Cal
umet river yesterday.
> Mrs. Proper was in the back seat
y of the auto and the eighteen -nonthss
t old baby. Mabel. was sitting beside her
> father on the front seat They all got
n out alive and unhurt, but it was a 10r
al to / chance that they would be killed
n or fatally hurt when they went over
IF the bank at a speed of about ffteer
miles an hour
The woman in the surrey, for whon
4 Mr. Proper risked his own life anC
Y the lives of his wife and child drov.
tn on calmly without so much as turnfns
l. her head to see what had become O.
a the car and it's three occupants.
BABY'S TOES STOP CAR.
I'd If it had not been for the fact tha
IS. Mabels nimble bare toes had just pull
IS ed out the switchlock OF the automo
se bile, shutting off the power, the biz
&c
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