Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-22
FIREMANLOSES
LIFE IN CRASH:
TWO ARE HURT
Alleged Joy Rider Held on
Charge of Manslaughter
After Wreck.
TRUCK HURLED so FEET

| One fireman was killed and two fire.
men were injured when the ladder truck
on which they were riding was struck
by a joy-riding automobile driven by
Harry ElmOre, Apartment Z, 400 East
Vermont street last night at II 30 o'clock
at Meridian and Fourteenth streets. The
heavy truck was knocked fifty feet and
the automobile, with two wheels torn
| off, was turned completely around.
The dead:
George Munford, chauffeur, ladder
! truck No. engine house, died in au-
! tomobile en- route to st. Vincent's Hos
pital.
The injured:
| John Hardesty, fireman, seriously in
| jured, city hospital.
/ Lieut.. Fred johnson, fireman, injuries
dressed at city hospital and taken home
in ambulance.
| Gilmore was arrested on the charges
! Of manslaughter and speeding. The fire
! to which the fremen were going at the
time of the accident was only a smoking
furnace at 1142 North Pennsylvania
street.
/ One man and three women who were
/ in the car driven by Gilmore hurriedly
disappeared from the scene following the
accident, but were located by the po-
lice after three hours search. They were
only bruised and not seriously hurt.
: The trio gave their names as AIonz0
II. Gully, SO North Alabama street; Mrs,
/ Sarah Whitaker, IS, and Mrs. Ruth
/ Walton, 30, who have an apartment on
/ the second floor at 125 East st. Joseph
/ street.
! Three other firemen no were on the
| fire truck but escaped injury were
/ - hp nH
| Stevenson.
It was the climax Of a Joy hide, tina
( police say, in which two men and two
women, whose names their companions
! claimed not to know, started from an
/ apartment in East st. Joseph street, TO
( Garden Point, IN Broad Ripple. The
party was returning to the flat when thu
automobile crashed into the side Of the
fire truck. Witnesses told the police
( that Elmore was driving the automobile
I south on Meridian street at the speed OF
/ fifty miles an hour. The fire truck was
| east bound on Fourteenth street
When the police emergency squad ar
rived at the scene Of the accident Nun
ford had been taken away in an au-
tomobile and was en- route to the St Vim
cents Hospital Gilmore was still there
but the other man and two women had
gone. Lieutenant johnson and Hardesty
were placed in a patrol wagon and hur-
ried to the city hospital, while other off,
GERS investigated the accident
/ PEACH BRANDY PARTY
/ TOLD ABOUT.
/ Gilmore told the police that the auto
mobile was owned by the c. L. Scott
Company, 544 North Meridian street,
whore he is employed. Gilmore told the
police that a friend had given him a
Mint hottie of Dpecb brandy Yesterday
as a Christmas present He said he met
/ Roscoe Sculley, 526 North Alabama
street. "Sculley," according to the po-
lice was found to be Alonzo II. Gully,
516 North Alabama street. known to
his friends as Lon Gully. The two men
went to the apartment Of Mrs. Whitaker,
whose name Elmore said he did not know,
arriving there al p. m. The four drank
the peach brandy, they told the police,
and about 10 ?. m started to Garden
Point in the Rtomobile. They remained
! there but a short time and were en- route
to Mrs. Whitaker's apartment when the
/ accident occurred. The two women and
two men all told similar stories. The
| police say that Elmore was not under
/ the influence of liquor. Elmore was the
only one Of the four alleged joy riders
arrested.
! Mr.. Munford was born at Munfords-
/ vile, Ky, June a. 1869 His home in
this city is at 1902 Cornelius avenue. He
was appointed 4 city fireman in Indian
apolis March l. 1895. He had served at
the No. 5 engine house, 126 West Fiji
tenth street, with the truck company
since Aug. 10. 1895 Hardesty's home is
I at 1929 West Thirty Sixth street. Lieu
tenant JOhnsOn's home Is at 800 West
| Twenty Eighth street.