Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-01
HAL SEY WITNESSES
!. W|LD-C0OSE CHASE
Go to Media to Attend Trial OF
Woman Accused of Mulcting
Motorists, But Encounter
Delay.

Two automobiles loaded with Whining
tonians liked out of the city early TINS
n,orninr. nayigatel with much joltlng and
nlseiving the remarkably bad roads be
tween here and Media, Pa.--and the
HIGHWAYS Of the keystone state are
W., rse than those % Delaware and then
came back, having had perfect sample
of a wlld-gooSc chase.
The two parties we're composed OF Wit
ness,rs and persons interested IN the case
Of Mrs Laura HaiScy, who lives on the
Concord pike, Just over the state Inc IN
PENNSYLVANIA. the woman who Is accused
Il holding up automobilIsts who used a
ON The front of her property as a turning
,olnt to dodge bad roads, and making
,em nav $40 car rs a "hne Tor trcspaSS
nj for the use Of her driveway.
Mrs. Hal-evS trial upon one OF q
rirtv of charges. including eXtOrtion.
rs scheduled To take place today before
.Iudre Johnson ut the Delaware county
scat and n considerable number of VII
minrtonians were to appear rs witnesses
against her. among them being George
" Raudman the contractor. Ross Camp
bell Charles G. GuyCr, secretary OF the
TjpIavare Automobile Association. Deputy
Attorney-C General Percy Warren Green
and = Delaware College student named
Wise
Mr. Green had spent a good deal of
time investigating the matter and IN pro
curing WilminCtonians who had been
held IN bv the woman to act rs witnesses,
and all hands confidently expected the
trlal to 90 forward today on schedule, no
word having been received from the
nrosccutinc officers of the Pennsylvania
rountv rs to poStponCment.
And after the two loads of passengers
Ind gotten INTO court and Just about
warmed up after their long and chilly
Journey. the district attorney John II.
Hannah, Jr., announced that all VII
ncsScs in the llalscy case are excused
until Thursday morning n 10 o'clock
Whercupon they filed out Of court, held
more or less OF an indignation meeting IN
the corridor, and started back home,
Mrs HalScy Is SAID 70 have made 2
decidedly good thing out OF her trans
aitions with automobiles. II 50 happened
that the road which is the route taken
for Br,ndvwinc Summit. was very bad
i, the locality of her home. which IS only
=. few hundred feet north Of the Delaware
PENNSYLVANIA line l-shaped driveway
leads from the road 10 the HalSeN place,
DID motorists who decided they wouldn I
REX rhclr sprIngs on h bumps used u
-, ,laco n which to turn around No
.annr would tho, back In. it Is said, than
S,rs UaIsey would make her appearance,
.'rr,,d With a crowlar thrust il through
~ rnar Wheels 50 The Gar couldn't
t, 49, and ,bcn procccd to fine them S.
Gu trosnass and s. for the use of her
wv mndcr threat Of prosecution, etc.
i. : cvon snd She displayed a revolver
o.casions ~ an extra lnduccmcnt for
r. Fl ..rome across. If they didn I
ban,,on "a have ready cash. she'd take
,,xfra tires il is said, or anything in which
she could sec the value OF ten sHmole y
no., Complaints about the matter re-
suited in the Delaware Automohile rs
ISOLATION taking a hand. Mrs haisfy
was finally arrested and held for TIC
grand jury, which returned quite batch
Of indictments against her.