The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24
NO AID FROM INJURED MAN
Bredek Suffering Terribly from His IN
juries Admits He Might Not BE Able
to Identify the Driver of the Car
Which Manned Him for Life.

pHeIIn JdcUU h6ffHldnu Is out III LH6
neighborhood Of Russell, ILL.,, this af-
ternoon, following a red hot clew
which he believes may furnish infor-
nation which will result in the arrest
of the drunken band of joyriders who
run down and terribly injured Anton
Bredek Of Pleasant Prairie on the
Geneva Road on Wednesday night.
The sheriff discovered on Thursday
night that just after six o'clock the
previous evening big fve-passenger
touring car, containing five men, all Of
whom were more or less under the in
f1uence of liquor, had gone into the
ditch near the village of Russell. The
automobile is said to have stopped at
one of the saloons at Russell and the
sheriff is hopeful that he will be able
to get something at these places which
will make it possible for him to secure
the arrest of the men in this car.
Whether the men in this car came
from over the Illinois line or from Ke-
nosha, the sheriff has not as yet been
able to ascertain. He did find out
from a half a score of witnesses that
they left a zig-zag path along the
roads over most of the town of Pleas
ant Prairie.
IT is declared that this automobile
load of Hdrunks' was seen passing
the land of the powder company just
after $50 Wednesday night. 1t is de-
clared also that the men went to the
village Of Pleasant Prairie and later
started toward Kenosha. The car was
being operated at very high rate of
speed and in most dangerous manner.
George Wilson, who was arrested on
Thursday morning and held in connec-
tion with the case, was discharged
from custody late Thursday afternoon
by Sheriff Hermann.
!" Wilson probably should pay q fine
for reckless driving said the sheriff
this morning, but the more I go into
the case, the more I am convinced that
It was not the Wilson car which struck
Bredek. The evidence of every one
who saw this car on the road is that
it had the top up. This surely let's
Wilson and the men with him out AL
of these men have declared to me that
they did not hit anyone along the road
and it would be folly to arrest them
and hold them in connection with the
case. -
The sheriff spent considerable time
with the injured man at the hospital
seeking to secure facts from him which
might aid in the arrest of the men
sought, but he was not able to furnish
any further facts. Bredek. admits that
the whole thing happened so suddenly
that he did not get good look at the
man driving the car. His condition
was encouraging this morning, but he
was suffering great pain from his in
iuries. Out in Pleasant Prairie his
wife is Frustrated on account Of the
accident With four little children
playing about her, she is facing the
necessity of providing COR these chill
dren and providing for them over a
long period of years. Her husband,
when he gets out of the hospital, is
going to be so crippled up that it will
be difficult for him to aid greatly in
caring for the family.
Chief Of Police O'Hare is at work
on the case and he is cooperating with
the sheriff in an effort to arrest the
men who were connected with the in
Jury of Bredek. Chicago detective
| bureaus are also at work seeking a
line on men who might have been at
the Kenosha lake regions the day of
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