The Detroit times., 1911-05-04
TELLS OF FLIGHT
WITH NJ 'hAMARA
Auto Driver Gives Thrilling Story Ct
Mad Dash Across Country With
Sleuths and Labor Leader.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May A.
Frank p. Fox, OF Indianapolis. a race
driver who Is a member OF the Pope
Hartford team nominated TO drive In
the 500-mile International Sweepstakes
race at the Indianapolis Motor Speed
way next Memorial day. drove the
lhigh-powered machine which carried
John j. Mcnamara. secretary and
| treasurer OF the Iron Workers Inter
national union, and one OF the princi-
pals in the dynamiting outrages, as
alleged by Detective Burns, out OF
the state of Indiana, before his friends
could get process OF law TO stop the
procedure.
Fox drove the distance or 200 miles
out OF Indiana to the west, In less than
six hours, making better than 40 miles
an hour over strange country roads
In the dark. He tells an interesting
story OF the wild ride with the pris-
oner and his guard OF detectives and
police, but refuses to divulge the spot
where he left his human cargo.
Although the arrest OF the secretary
and treasurer Of the Iron Workers In
tenational Union was filed with spec
tacular features, the drive from In
dianapolis to an unknown point near
the border OF the state forms, per-
haps, the most exciting narrative OF
events which has been revealed by the
famous detective up to this time.
The driver said he was given or
ders to disobey speed laws and to
drive the machine from the state as
quickly as possible, regardless OF dam
age to the auto or danger TO the lives
OF it's occupants. He declared he left
Indianapolis without knowledge OF his
destination. He had been told he was
to drive several hundred miles and he
was ordered to be prepared for acck
dents Of any nature
The story OF the race driver fol-
lows:
Burns called me at my garage, say
ing he wanted the most powerful ma
chine In Indianapolis to take party
of men long trip. He said he want
ed some one to drive who would be
willing to take chances on going
through q knothole, II necessary, and
that he wanted driver who could
keep what he would see TO himself.
the air, but did not know what II was.
or course, at that time | knew moth
ing OF the detectives plans, but /
decided to 60, whatever should fol-
low. l was ordered to have the car
at police headquarters early in the al
ternoon, and to have the machine load
ed to the guards with gasoline and
speed juice was requested, also,
to place the top up and to have cur
tains on the car.
81 must confess when the detectives
began to swarm from police headquar-
ters, leading a man with handouts on
him, was rather surprised. | i'm
mediately believed some well-known
citizen with political or other infiu;
ences, had got in trouble, and that
friends were spiriting him away be-
fore the law could get a good hold on
HIM I did not know Mcnamara. He
appeared to be an intelligent and we'll
to-do man.
when Burns came from the build
ing, he must have believed when he
saw the curtains on the car that 1t
was filed with men who were not his
friends. Anyway before / had an ou-
he had run to the machine and after
throwing the curtains back, had in
spected its interior to see that 1t was
empty. Before | had time to think
twice or before | had time to recog-
nize persons In the crowd the man
adorned with handouts was seated,
and being followed quickly by two de-
tectives, | was ordered to drive west
and to run over street cars IL neces-
sary In getting out OF the city in a
hurry.
I'VE went west on Washington-st.
After l had left the city limits and
the open country was seen before us.
I was informed to drive west; that
was to choose the roads, drive as fast
as possible. and make no stop unless
they were absolutely necessary. had
gasoline and oil and water In my ma
chine to carry us 300 miles, and knew
we could make the trip barring pune
lures.
II really could not tell what cities
we passed on the way. ! drove so fast
did not have time to notice where
we were going, only | knew We were
headed west. At no time during the
trip did | hear conversation between
McNamara and the detectives. The
machine was making too much noise
and the wind was whistling past our
ears too fast for us to hear. Neither
did | have time to devote much
thought as to what the purpose OF the
wild ride was, for | was busy con
trolling the machine, avoiding bumps
and rounding curves In the road.
Some time after we had left here
one Of the men opened suitcase.
thought II belonged to the prisoner.
1t was filled with young battery and
there was enough ammunition in II
for an army. There was Winches-
ter rife I'm the grip, several large au-
tomato pistols and II looked like at
| least 200 rounds OF ammunition. When
saw all the gunpowder parapher-
MALTA | decided that a man could only
die once and that ! might as well
keep that machine In the road while
! | had the chance.
Those guns looked to me like
trouble. Though II trouble had not
been expected the detectives were GER
tainly foolish to carry so much ex.
cess baggage.
I'VE had unusually good luck. The
| trip was made without a stop, and
we were exceedingly lucky to go 30
far at the rate of forty miles an hour
! ,,,fth0ut a. nuurtttra had m at0u