Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-07-31
riToNkA 0hERIFF SHOOTS TIRES
DOWN TO CAPTURE AUTO
DRIVER.
CHASED BIG LocoMoelLE
WITH FORD AND SHOT GUN
Titenka Sheriff Called to Arrest
Drivers Of Bio Auto Finds Il Going
BY at Forty.Mils cIip-Brines Them
Down by Shooting Tires With Shot
Gun.

towns of Titonka and Germania at forty
miles per hour in a big yellow auto
mobile with a sheriff mounted on a
Ford and armed with a shotgun was
the exciting race that took place here
Monday evening. BY changing studs
at Germania the sheriff finally caught
UP with the pursued and shot theiI
tires down before they would sur
render.
AS Constable keil was taking his
day evening his telephone rang. He
( stepped up to II and message came
to him from Sheriff Brunson to arrest
and hold the driver of an orange col
4. ored car that was 10 pass thru Titonka
( He slipped his old plug hat on to the
side OF his head and made for the
streets To carry out the orders of his
superior officer. He had no more
( than reached the streets in front OF
MS residence until he saw big loco
mobile. orange color, fifty horse power
coming north from down town. He
tried to hail the driver, but his cries
aid no good. He stepped into his
private Ford shot off down the street
20 the home of Victor Lamoreux and
two or ihree minutes Lamoreux and
keil We're off in the formers Ford
racer.
Fifty Miles an Hour
The big car shot up Main street in
Tltonka going a the rate of forty TO
Atty miles an hour. The Ford racer
moved at about the same rate un.il
they caught sight Of the big car going
north 10 Germania on their way 10
E!more, MINI. After getting out four
miles from Titonka the Ford racer
caught sight of the dust of the big
car and kept a halt 10 mile behind
until they reached Germania AT Ger
mania the big car slid up Main street
at forty mile clip and then went west
OF town
Officer Changes Cars.
When keil and Lamoreux reached
Germania they stopped long enough to
procure shot gun and to get another
car (their Ford racer being nearly out
of gas) and as luck would have It
Clarence Painelwas right on hand with
his Pope Hartford. With keil and
LamoreuX inythe rear seat and Clarence
at the wheel with Walcutt as his guide,
the Pope Hartford left Germania three
or four miles behind the big Loco
mobile racer. The way Clarence shot
that car out for the first few miles
caused Cons,abl keil 10 lose lot of
hair off the top of his head. The first
six miles was made at the rate Of fifty
to sixty miles an hour and the farther
they went the faster and hotter the
mania was two miles west, thence d.
rect north.
Shots Puncturc Tires.
At point one mile south of the Min
nesota line Paine pulled behind the
big six and the officer called for the
driver to stop the car by shooting three
shots in the air. The more Keil sho,
in the air the faster the chase became
Keil then stood up in the Paine cal
when it was moving fifty miles an hour
took aim at one of the rear tires or
the big car, part of the shot passing
thru the fender, some thru the tire,
and the balance went astray. The biz
car kept on for two miles as fast a:
the driver could make il go. AT las
the tire went down and the big ca
ditched.
! keil jumped our of the Paine car ant
| placed Mr.. Tremain. the driver ant
| owner of the car, under arrest. Tn
! party. consisting of Mr.. Tremain an
! family, with the officials and driver o
! the Pope Hartford. proceeded to Ell
more where a settlement was MADE.
! 1t was said that the mayor of Bur
had fined Mr. Tremain $50 and cost
for speeding on their streets. but h
F., failed TO pay and that the matter wa
placed in the hands of Sheriff Brun
son for collection. Mr. Tremain wa
game and stated that if he had no
had a blow out he would have give
the authorities and officers the chas
of their life Che not knowing at III
time that his car tires had been sho
down by Constable KeiD and at thi
time Clarence Paine, who Is also
game boy, spoke up and gallavante
around the driver of the big car, an
stated in plain language that he coul
run circles around the big six Loco
mobile racer with his Pope Hartfort
This caused Mr. Tremain to pull in nj
horns and be good.
The fine and expenses were paid b
Mr.. Tremain and the return journe
began Mr. Tremain is a millionair
of Minneapolis. He was at one tim
the manager of the Durdall at Algon
and organized the colored baseball clu
at Algona when he was citizen {
Algona
MISSION WORK IN SIAM.