The Detroit times., 1911-07-17
AUTO LAW MUST be
! 0BEYED, DECLARES
CONNOLLY
Recorders Court Judge Fines and
Scores violators, Imposing Jail
Sentences as Alternative Of
Fines Aggregating $1,000.
Drivers Must Learn Pedestrians
Have Some Rights in the strsets.s z
Court Adds.

Judge William f.. Connolly. hike
Judge James Phelan. week ago. gave
drivers of automobiles and riders or
motorcycles, Monday morning. to un-
derstand that they cannot violate the
speed limits OF Detroit with impunity.
He also dealt severely with chauffeurs
who allow their machines to emit
smoke and gasoline fumes along tho
roadway. Judge Connolly opened
court at 10 a. m. and up to II o'clock
he had imposed fines aggregating $40
on yiolators OF the ordinances reguiat-
Ing the speed OF automobiles and
motorcycles. At the noon hour all
cases had not been heard and the
court officials estimated that the days
ines would total more than $1,000.
1T looks as though the drivers Of
automobiles and motorcycles have to
be burned up every Moncay morning
IN order to teach them that there are
speed ordinances In force tn Detroit,n
said Judge Connolly In imposing one
OF the sentences. The ordinances
must be obeyed and the Sooner the
drivers Of automobiles and motor
cycles learn that they cannot go at q
dangerous pace, the better Il will be
for them. They must learn that the
pedestrians have some lights In the
streets. Why, just the other morning,
4 saw two men driving an automobile
In front OF my home, en- the boulevard.
at the rate OF SO miles an hon.. They
we're laughing and seemed TO have no
regard for the safety of parsons who
might be In their way. That sort OF
driving must certalnlw stop"
Gus Kahl, No. 230 La Salle-st,. driv-
er for III. A. Lozier. auto manufacturer,
drew the heaviest fine OF ,he day,
$3.50 or 10 days in Jail He was con-
victed OF driving his machine 40 miles
an hour along Jefferson-ave., near Fox
Creek. The motorcycle officer who
made the complaint said he had 10 go
55 miles an hour 10 catch Eahl Eff
teen miles an hour Is the limit allow
ed by the ordinance. Kahi was given
until Tuesday morning 10 pay.
r. Sibley and another man drew =
fine of $50 each for going 80 miles an
hour on Jefferson-ave., July is. The
officer In the case said II appeared
to him as though the two we're rae
ing; also that Sibley admitted to him
that he wouldn't let the other man
set Dy MIN.
Others who will have to pay fines
or go to jail for running their autos
or motorcycles too fast are:
Russell Roberts. $35 or 15 days; @.
~. Smith, SIS or five days; Harold
Roehl. $40; Walter Lovejoy, riding
motorcycle without lights on Belle
Isle. with girl on rear seat, $50 or five
days; ID. K. Hunter, SIS; B. T. Haber-
Jxorn, No. $50 Fourteenth-ave.. $40.
going 23 miles an hour on Jefferson
ave: Charles Chilinski. 23 miles an
hour on Jefferson-ave., $40 or 10 days;
w. X. Yunck, 10 miles an hour on JEFF
ferson-aye.. $40: C. w. Cole, 20 miles
an hour on Jefferson.ave., SIS or five
days In jail; @. NJ. Kerr. 20 miles an
hour on Jefferson-ave., $40; Lewis
Burkhardt, Is miles an hour, s25 or
Lflve days; M. G. Dewitt, 16 mile an
hour, $40: Frank McDermott. % miles
Jan hour with motorcycle on Belle Isle.
S25 or five days.
The following were fined for falling
ito stop when signalled at street cross
ings: G.. C. Barber, $40: John Hunt.
$40; julius BrAran. $25 or Ave days:
Irwin Marker, $40; Fred w. Burke,
SIS; j. Milton Humber, SIS.
For allowing autos to emit smoke.
the following sentences were imposed:
John Laskey. $40: II. w. Shay, SIS:
Ernest Green and Russell Morgan.
$40 and $40. respectively. The latter
two are employed as drivers for the
Detroit Auto Delivery Co.