The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-03
Up A ROAD
Joy Rider Runs Over Boy and
Wrecks Another Car.
Is Charged With Reckless Driv-
ing and Being Drunk.

Complaints were drawn by the coun
ty attorneys office today charging
Roy Devine. % years of age. with be
ing drunk and driving an automobile,
and with reckless driving 1t was
stated that a warrant would prot ably
be issued today. Although efforts are
being made to head off prosecution.
w E. Atchison, county attorney, is
not disposed to allow the matter to
drop.
Devine is the young man arrested
by the police last night after he had
struck and seriously injured Rober;
Jamison, 16-year-old boy, and
smashed his five-passe niger car into
a car driven by Guy A. Morse, secre-
tary and manager of the Hall Lltho-
graphing company.
The smash-up occurred on sixth
avenue road south of the Topeka
State hospital Devine had several
persons in the car, and according to
Witnesses they were yelling and max :
ing a terrific racket while Devine
showed the car along at rate of So
miles an hour.
The Jamison boy was walking east
on his way to the Topeka laundry,
where he is employed. When the De
vine car approached he walked TO ths
south side of the road, but the car
swerved and hit him. Witnesses say
he was dragged. The boy was taken
to St. Francis hospital in passing
car and is recovering from his IN
iuries The first thing he said when
he recovered consciousness at the nos
pital was:
Now. look at my new suit"
The boy had just bought a new sul-
and it was ruined.
Half a block east of the point where
he struck the Jamison boy, Devine
careened to the north side of the road
n
Mr. Morse. The cars were damned
together until it was necessary to pun
them apart In the Morse car were
Mr.. and Mrs. Morse and Mr.. and Mrs
]. c. Burnett. Mr.. Burnett was slight
ly bruised.
Within a few minutes after the ac-
cident, Devine was arrested and taken
to the police station. He could not
give a coherent account of the acct
dent. The occupants of the Morse
car declared he acted like a person
who had been drinking. He was TAX
en- home from the police station by
his father, o. w. Devine, of POI To-
peka avenue. The boy was released
under bond of $500. The arrest was
made by Harvey Parsons. chief of po-
lice, and S. A. Abbott detective.
The damage to the Morse car is APP
| proximately $3.50. 1t was stated at
the county attorneys Office today that
all damages would be settled If there
was no prosecution, but Mr.. Atchison
replied that there must be prosecu-
ton.
o. W. Devine, father of Roy Devine,
who injured Robert Jamison. six
teen-year- boy, and crashed into a
car driven by Guy Morse, with a five
passenger car on West Sixth street
last night, made the following state
ment this afternoon:
My boy had been driving his car
along behind a Ford for two blocks
and while the Jamison boy stepped
out of the road for the Ford car he
stepped back into the road right in
front of the car Roy was driving In
attempting to miss the boy Roy
swerved his car across the road and
struck the Morse car which was go
| ing west on the other side. 1t is
about 200 feet from the point wher-
he struck the boy to the point where
| he collided with the Morse car. l
measured the distance today. As he
had followed the Ford closely for two
blocks it was impossible for Roy to
| have been driving thirty-f five or forty
miles an hour as has been stated"