The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-06
CITY AND COUNTY
CHASE JOY RIDERS
Begin Warfare on Speeders Be-
fore the Evil Is Permitted
to Spread.
FINE FOR ALL OFFENDERS
Major Werner Orders His Men
TO Pick Up All Drivers Who
Violate Law.

With the crusade which is being
made by city and county police, it is
believed that wholesale pnotor car
speeding, so notorious last year. will
be crushed out before the real warn,
weather brings the automobile brigade
out i'll fun force on the public high
ways. Motorcycle policemen, who have
been especially watching the Boule-
ward. have hailed many offenders Ia
court. Others have been warned, but
where the warning was not heedcd Il
quick summons To Police Court was
hahded out. In the county the same
fuie has been observed although
greater diligence has been showers since
Judge scott issued emphatic orders 20
officers some weeks ago.
me invariublc rule will be z $50
hhe In justice Crutchfield's court here
alter ana the attitude OF the Justice
IN dealing vigorously with offenders
mas been warmly commended
sIil There Were Enough.
Nhlle the city has had no more than
It's snare of accidents. perhaps. the
number has been quite large, many
persons having been Killed either by
cafeiessness or ineNpcriencc The re-
cent accident in which Carl Ruehr-
II
aroused the public to high point of
indignation, and hereafter the driver
who accidentally knocks down a per
son In the street will be less apt to
race away in fancicd security During
the state Fair in 1910 veteran living
at the soldiers Home was killed on
the Boulevard. and to this day the
driver who killed him has never been
found.
There are many stretches. of good
roads in Henrico where speeders have
less chance OF being apprehended, and
where the danger is Just as great as
in the city. The racing spots are we'll
known. but in the future county OFF,
GERS VIII be on guard, and county
courts will show no mercy to those
who arc caught in the net.
Orders by Major Werner.
The men on the police force have
been ordered to pick up every chaur-
feur who exceeds the speed limit"
said Major Werner last night. and
this rule will be followed without
variation in the future l do not re-
gard conditions as alarming. but we
are determined to check the evil in
it's incipicncy, and it always comes
to the surface in the spring and early
summer. The men on the Boulevard
are doing good work. ana in other
sections the hand OF the law viii
reach out and gather in that driving
element which seems to have a con
tempt FOR the safety of those who are
forced To walk. The heavy fines i'm
posed by Justice Crutchield Will nave
most wholesome effect, and we
simply want the motor car owners TO
understand that while they have cyry
Eisht 10 travel at Will. they have got
to keep within the law or bear the
consequences"
The suggestion has been made that
Inc City Council should pass "a law
providing jail sentence for persons
VINO are convicted two or more times
of speeding. This it is believed. will
end tho nuisance and make IL safer
Tor people TO walk about the streets
The attention OF the police depart
nent has been called TO the constant
violation of the new traffic ordinance.
which provides fine for an owner
who drives an automobile which
smokes. Glaring instances of the v!o-
lation of this law have been noted
every day.