The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-08-08
CAPTURED BOOZE CAR IN RACE.
Sheriff John Fulton Had Great Au-
to Race, But Got Booze Car.

I Sheriff John A Fulton had the
race of his life last Saturday after a
big Cadillac Eight booze car, but
had the satisfaction of getting his
man, car and the big load of booze,
even if he did have to chase him
clear down in Missouri .s
had business at Davis City, and
started down in his Buick car, ac-
companied by H. D. Weldon. A
couple of miles south of Leon near
the home OF Wesley Chew, he pass
ed big Cadillac Eight heavily load
ed, and surmising it was booze
i the car. Before reaching Leon he
had passed the car a couple OF times,
but the driver refused to heed his
command to stop, and proceeded to
step on the gas and away they went:
People who were on the streets OF
race, the big booze car in the lead
footing his horn and travelling at
least fifty miles an hour with the
sheriff right at his heels. The booze
car made the turn at the Dr.. Wood
mansee corner, but was going so
fast it skidded into the curbing and
damaged a rear wheel, while. sheriff
Fulton went straight north on slain
street with the intention OF cutting
him off at the new Catholic church,
but the foxy driver saw the move and
instead of going out north he turn
ed west at the school house, going
out past the cemetery. Sheriff Full
ton went to. the end of the paving
and had some cars strung across the
paving to stop him, and when he
did not appear he came back and
followed the trail out toward the
cemetery. Near the bridge across
the tracks he picked up tire and
tube which mad been discarded, the
booze car going on and the = rim I'M max, <,
came back to Leon to phone to sur
rounding towns, and soon heard that
the fellow had gone through Decatur,
going south, so away he went on the
chase, and finally caught up with
the fellow down this side OF Eagle
Vile, the booze. car having stopped
thinking he had escaped. Although
he was in Missouri, the fellow vol
unfairly agreed to come back with
sheriff Fulton and the load was di-
vided up into three cars, city mar
shall Marion Osborn having. pressed
a Ford car into service and follow
ed trail, arriving few minutes at,
driver were brought back to Leon
and the fellow who gave his name
as Ray w Reeves, residing at 1927
Bluff Street, Des Moines, was taken
before Justice Woodmansee where
he waived preliminary examination
and was bound over to the grand
jury under a $500 cash bond, de-
posting six $50 bills for his bond.
the custody of sheriff Fulton mar
shall Osborn arrested him and he
was taken before Mayor Gardner,
where he entered plea of guilty
to speeding and the mayor gave him
the maximum penalty. tine OF
500, and he produced two more
$50 bills to. pay, it with, but as ne
Gardner remitted IS of the fine SO
he could return to his home in Des
Moines. He had Wes Oiler drive
him to Osceola to catch the evening
train for Des Moines.
The car contained big load OF
booze, something over 400 pints of
whiskey, and more than one hun
dred bottles of beer. which are
SEsd WSeS Ree1es X ns e9ahy emyg a to own me bea car
ing Iowa license No 2S531S. is held
here under the law to. secure the
payment of all fines and costs which
may be imposed by the district
court, and county attorney Springer
has applied for an injunction against
Reeves, restraining him from en-.
gaging in bootlegging., ;,
The Leon officials have. captured
ging to keep after them as long s''
they pass through Leon.
Mayor Gardner did the right thing
by imposing the heaviest penalty he
could for speeding, for the. booze
driver narrowly missed striking sew,
eral persons in his. mad flight
through the streets of Leon.