Arizona republican., 1914-09-23
MARIE GREENE
 |S SOME DRIVER
Colored Lady of Liberal Proportions Attempts to Escape from Motorcycle Policeman, But Creates Excitement Instead

Marie Green Baker, colored lady of liberal proportions, will be the guest of the city for the next sixty days, following one of the most eX- citing episodes in her eventful ca .eer. when she drove a handsome sorrel horse at breakneck speed up and down the business streets of Phoenix with Motorcycle Policeman Hunt in pursuit and unable to bring her tc a standstill until she had lun the outfit into ditch at Fourth and Jackson streets, smashing the buggy and freeing the horse from the rig.
 It all happened on Monday evening, while the streets were crowded with people drawn out because the circus was in town. Marie came to town on circus day, not to see the circus. as she said but to do some shop ping. She had been given a sixty day sentence about two weeks before and Judge Mcbride suspended the sentence on condition that she re- main away from the city during the period of sixty days.
 If she hadn't fallen in with some friends who had plenty of red eye whiskey and probably some snow" everything wouldn't have been so lad. The police might have over looked her presence, believing she would return south of the rive, where she claims to have been work iEg. But she became loaded" and then started to make fuss. When | Policeman Hunt found her she was 1 singing loudly. He remonstrated with her and she, believing she was about i to be arrested, jumped into the buggy of her employer, which she had left standing before the door. Hastily gathering up the lines, she began plying the whip. She dashed across Central avenue at Adams street at 6reakneck speed. Along Adams street she proceeded to Second street, then south across Washington street to Jefferson street, with Hunt in close pursuit. At Jefferson street she en- cOuntered the barriers erected by the street paving company. Hunt, be-
 ieving he had her co.nerod, killed lis engine and dismounted. Before
 
 sine had struck the animal with the whip, and turning upon two wheels, returned to Washington street.
 For two blocks eastward, Marie kept things humming, including the horse and buggy. With arms elevat- ed, the whip descending at irregula-' intervals, and shouting at the top of her voice, while occasionally looking back to see if she was distancing the officer, she fairly flew, compelling pedestrians and vehicles to give her a clear road. At Fourth street she turned south and when at Jefferson street again encountered paving bar riers
 This time she ignored the Street Closed signs and drove between them. The motorcycle officer was badly handicapped by this hazard, but made it and finally reached her side at Jackson street at the same in stant that the right front wheel came in contact with an old iron pump ly. ing close to the road That was the end of the chase In police court yesterday Marie tried to blame it on the officer, saving he was guilty of having crowded her off the road and of frightening her horse when he fired his gun in the air a couple of times to bring her to her senses The judge evidently thought so. too, for he said he guessed the old sentence would be brought into use