Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-20
HURRYING TO WOONSOCKET
Captured by the Vigilant Police of
Providence.
ALL HIS COMPANIONS CAUGHT
Busy, Busy Day for the Democratic
Candidate in His Dash Through
Southern New England.
Special From a STAFF Correspondent.

Special From STAFF Correspondent
PROVIDENCE. r. l., September 10
The peerless leader was pinched today /
don't mean this in jocose spirit at all.
1t is the truth. He was arrested by three
policemen of Providence for smashing the
speed regulation to flinders while travel
ing in hfgh-powered auto Monday his
chauffeur will have to stand up in the
police court and be soaked with a fine
OF twenty-five or fifty dollars unless the
powers that be-and they happen to be
democratic--fix up the station house books
In the meantime. Incidentally, every
other member of his party was arrested
at the same time. including yours truly.
Mr.. Bryan makes no defense He does
not enter plea of not guilty, but saws
frankly that he was Speeding and that
his arrest IS the best proof in the world
that campaigning is nard work and dan
gerous besides He thinks. toe, although
he Is rather noncommittal. for publication,
on this phase of it. that inasmuch as
Judge Taft has followed his lead on
campaign speaking and canned phono-
graphic record that he might as well fall
in line and be arrested for burning the
pike. Mr.. Bryan sort of thinks it is I'D to
Judge Taft.
When this entirely unexpected affair
happened to happen Mr.. Bryan was re-
turning from River Point, r. l., mill
town. where he had talked on the burn
Ing issues of the hour, to Providence,
through which he had to pass to get to
Woonsocket. the next place at which he
was scheduled to speak. He had spoken
longer than he had intended at every
point and the program was all out of
kclter So when John w. Mills jr. son OF
old man Mills Of Qudnisset. whose car
1t was. turned around and asked. Shall
let her Out?'' Mr.. Bryan simply nodded
pulled in the flaps of his dust coat
little further around his ears and settled
down in his seat
And John let her out all right l hap
pened to know. for l was in the second
Mr.. Bryan's high Empowered machine, and
yet We hit only four high places in twelve
miles. which is going some.
Everything went all right until the
city limits of Providence We're reached.
Then the car ran into a trap meas
ured eighth of d mile. with policeman at
each end and a motorcycle cop waiting
nearby and just aching for trouble. Pa
trolman Frank Walters. who by the
way Is a good democrat and feels melan-
choly tonight. was at the upper end of
the trap. and gave the signal to Sergt.
Frank =. Day at the other end. when the
big car hove In sight.
Suffering Moses. yelled Day, when
the machine flashed by the lower end of
the trap, fifty miles an hour:
Looie Hall. the motorcycle man. lit out
after the limit wrecker. 1t didn't take
him long to catch it, and when he did he
wasn't a bit polite in his remarks, and
the flyer Jared TO a stop on the emer
gency brakes
This" said State Representative OCon-
nell who was in the with Mr.. Bryan.
to Policeman Hall. "is William Jennings
Bryan nominee OF the democratic party
for the presidency of the United States.
and