The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-07-29
DOLLAR 4 NILE FINES SOON
z. G.. Simmons, Jr., Who Ran His Auto
mobile Fifty Miles an Hour and Dis
tanced the Sheriff, Pays the Highest
Fine With First Bunch
(From Monday s daily.)


F. j. Christensen, Racine,
thirty seven miles, $1,000.
oliver Lange, Racine, forty
miles $500.
AL Fliegler, Racine, forty miles,
miles $500.
@. F. A. Deldschart, Racine,
forty miles, $500.
L. ]. Gould, Racine, thirty-seven
miles, $1,000.
n. H. Decker, Chicago, forty
miles, $1,000.
e.. c. Simmons, Jr., Kenosha,
fifty miles, $780,
Leo Sackman, Waukegan; John
Thronson, Kenosha; Russell Dale,
Chicago, did not appear. All run
ming forty miles an hour and all
20 appear on Tuesday.
This was the harvest of speeders
reaped over on the lake shore road and
out on the Geneva road on. Saturday
afternoon and Sunday by the motor
cycle deputies and the seven of them
who came into court this morning paid
fines and costs in excess of a hundred
dollars. The motorcycle police officers
admit that there were many speeders
who slipped away from them, but this
was due to their inexperience in the
CroY 4oiY no L. I
captured on the next holiday frolic on
the improved roads will be consider
ably greater.
There was not great deal of com
planning on the part Of the arrested
men when they came into court this
morning. Most of them were anxious
to get the matter over with and they
hurried to plead guilty. The first man
up, F. J. Christensen Of Racine, ques-
toned the speed which had been ac-
credited to him by the officer Rudy
had registered him at forty three miles
an hour, but Christensen declared
that he had been going just thirty
seven miles an hour when arrested and
he paid on this basis. Judge Taylor
warned every one Of the men against
a second offense and tackled Jail
sentence Of twenty days as an alterna-
tive of the payment of each fine A
second offense, it is understood, is to
open the doors Of the county Jail.
Yes, judge, ] was running forty
miles an hour was the statement of
one Of the Racine men nand I am
ashamed of it, he continued. His
shame came too late as he got the grad
uated fine Of $500 and costs.
Featured in the appearance of
speeders this morning was the face of
q. G. Simmons, Jr., who was brought
in by Sheriff Stahl. Young Simmons
admitted that he had been running
very fast and that he had distanced
the sheriff in the chase. The testimony
of the sheriff was that the car was
running thirty-fve miles an hour when
the chase started. II ran mine up to
fifty an hour in an effort to catch
him. said Sheriff Stahl, 9.and he sim
ply walked away from me. Young
Simmons drew the fine in keeping with
the scale arranged by Judge Taylor.
Tt is understood that later on if
speeding on the rural roads continues
the scale is to be changed so that the
fines will be rated at the dollar mile
rate used in Milwaukee, There was
but one arrest on the Geneva road on
Sunday. Deputy Brankow, who went
on this road, warned one woman who
was running at rate of twenty-eight
miles, but she as not arrested. She
declares that the excessive. speed was
an over sight and that she would never
violate the law again.
The two men are to be kept on the
Job constantly from now on and it is
expected that the "Speeder Is Club =
will have many additions daily until
such time as the mania for speed
is curbed
It is noticeable that large number
Of arrested people were from Racine.
Up in Racine county it is claimed that
the people have learned to obey the
law and that the Racine men do not
speed until after they get over the
Kenosha county line. Racine is in
vited to retaliate and arrest every
Kenosha driver that runs faster than
the legal limit on the roads of Racine
county.
The officials of the two counties are
cooperating and they plan to make this
a thorough cleanup of the speeders and
then the roads will be paroled to keep
the speed mania under control