Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-30
FIVE HURT BY JOY RIDING
H. H.. Brandeis' Touring Car Smashes
Into Moving Van.
CHAUFFEUR PUT UNDER ARREST
Machine Going from Fifty to sixty
Miles an Hour When Accident
Occurred at Hamilton and
ThIrty-FOuFth streets.

Joy riding along Hamilton street at an
estimated rate OF forty or fifty miles an
hour in the big touring car belonging
to H. H. Brandeis, Al Shultz. with two
companions, ran into an express wagon
at Thirty-fourth and Hamilton streets at
noon Thursday, wrecking the big ma
chine and i%njuring all the occupants, one
Of them probably seriously.
The big touring car was turned over on
its right side by the impact of the col
iision, the two front wheels were broken
and the entire front part of the car de-
molished. The express wagon was
smashed in on the left side. One Of the
horses, hitched to the wagon was cut on
the leg and may have to be killed.
Driving the wagon was Joseph De Rosia
Of 241O Parker street. With him on the
seat was Gust Drahos OF 1921 North Thir-
ty-eighth street. Drahos was seriously In
jured IN the collision.
In the automobile with Shultz were two
companions, who were not badly injured
and who fled before anybody reached the
scene of the accident. They are supposed
to be II. Peters, a blacksmith, and Fred
| Jensen, a ~saloonkeeper.
Shultz and Drahos were taken to st.
Joseph's hospital in the police ambulance
a few minutes after the accident Shultz
was cut a little around the head and was
soon dismissed from the hospital and placed
under arrest. Erahos was more seriously
hurt and probably will be confined to the
hospital for several days. His head was
severely cut and it is feared he was IN
jured internally.
H. II. Brandeis, the owner Of the auto
mobile. is in Europe now. Emil Brandeis
says the car cost 1900, and is an Ameri-
can make.
Al shultz has been employed by II. II.
Brandeis for several years. He took the
car from the Paxton-Maxwell garage, 23lS
Harvey street, at 10 o'clock Thursday
morning, 1t had not been out OF the
garage for two or three weeks. Shult7
said he was testing the machine to see II
IT was in good running condition.
People living along Hamilton street saw
Shultz driving the car, and say he was
going about forty or fifty miles an hour
Officer II. d. Corneau, who lives al
ThiTty-sixth and Hamilton streets, saw the
car go west on Hamilton a few minutes
before the accident lie says 1t was ex-
ceeding the speed limit.
1T was off duty at the time OF the acct
dent and was in my house. I heard abe
car run by going west, and got up to look
at II. I have been wanting TO catch some
OF the Joy riders. saw this car and II
was going about fifty miles an hour.
"a few minutes later ! saw the car come
back and heard it crash into the wagon
here at Thirty-fourth street"
Mrs. John Liddell, 1924 Hamilton street
saw the car as It went west, and she de-
clares It was going fifty miles an hour
Rev. j. V. Carlson and Sam Block say
the car was going from fifty TO Sixty
miles an hour.
The two men with Shultz In the auto
mobile got up and ran away before they
could be questioned. Shultz would say
nothing about the accident except that h'
was testing the machine. He was place.
under arrest by officer corneau for ex
ceeding the speed limit.