Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-09-26
DRIVER is ACCUSED OF
BEING INTOXICATED
AT THE WHEEL
HORSE IS KILLED
MACHINE ON RAMPAGE CRASHED
INTO CONCRETE MIXER, CAR.
OMS INTO STEED AND THEN
CRASHES AGAINST PILE OF
TIES.

After crashing into riding horse
iniurng il so badly that il mad to be
killed, breaking an expensive cement
mixer, and wrecking his own new
Buick touring car, Edward Carroll, a
Flanagan insurance man. crawled in
the back seat OF his auto and laid
down to take a nap, unmndful of that
fact that his car was in a perilous
position hanging on a pile of railroad
ties. He was found snoozing there
when the sheriff arrived and placed
him under arrest on charge of driv.
ing an automobile while intoxicated
Carroll was taken TO the county iail,
where he was allowed to complete his
nap.
The first accident occurred at 1880
O'Clock on the hard road south of
town, where o cement mixer Is used
as the center piece Of a highway bar
ricade, by the Comstock Construction
co. Edward Johnson, son of Ole John
son, who is employed on the hard road
had Just gone over to the mixer to see
were supplied with oil enough to last
until morning lie carried a lantern
with him. Seeing car approaching
at fast rate of speed, he called out
and signalled with his lantern to take
the detour, Carroll who was at the
wheel of his car, is said to have paid
no attention to the warning, and to
have rushed right into the mixer,
smashing It.
caroms Against Horse.
His car was damaged, but was not
put out of commission. He swerved.
and Is said to have struck good rid
ing horse belonging to Ole johnson,
which Edward Johnson had used to
ride over to the scene of the barricade.
The animal was standing hitched to
the side of the road. II was struck,
and its leg badly fractured.
Carroll swung his car to the west,
and is said to have rushed away
down Peck road without stopping to
offer aid to the suffering animal.
Frank Porter who is also employed on
the hard road, and Witnessed the acct
dent got in his car and gave chase
At Hit crossing, Carroll ran his car
upon a pile of logs, and put it out Of
commission. Porter returned to town,
ana reported the matter to Sheriff
Ayers. The officer went out, and is
alleged to have found Carroll sleep
ing in the rear seat of his auto
Carroll was brought into Ottawa and
lodged in the county Jail His car,
which had the front caved in, was
toWed into the Conde garage, by the
wrecker for repairs,
AS soon as the horse was hit and
injured hurry up call was sent for
Df. j. II, Fowlie, the veterinary sur
geon. He examined the animal but
found that it could not be saved so A
merciful bullet put the poor beast out
of its suffering.
Carroll is about "A wears of age, He
informed the officers that he was mar.
rled and the head of a family.
Hold Alleged Auto Thieves.
Sheriff Ayers received message
from Chief of Police William J. Mul-
connery of East st, Louis. this morn.
ing, informing him that the auto he re-
covered here yesterday was the prop
erty of William +. Eckels. to whom
tiio iitfHSe Was iSSueu, Inc 0lllcpf
asked that Carl Niswander and George
Nernot, who were caught with the car.
be held until the authorities from
there arrived TO take charge of them.
The car, a now Maxwell touring car
was stolen in St Louis on Sunday.
Mr. Eckels is expected to arrive here
TINS afternoon to take charge Of his
machine. Niswander and Vernot were
arrested on suspicion by Sheriff Ayers
on the road west of Ottawa Yesterday
at noon. They confessed yesterday af-
ternoon that the car was stolen. They
have since been held prisoners in the
county Jail.
Bound Over.
hearing was given the defendant
before Justice of the Peace George
koenig this morning He was bound
over to the grand jury under $400
bond. He admitted in court that he
was intoxicated. saving that he Sc
cured a pint of liquor on a doctors
prescription, and drank a part of il.
The remainder in the bottle, he said,
was left in the automobile.
Furnishes Bond.
The defendant furnished the reguir.
ed bond with L. NJ. Harvey as surety,
and secured his release from custody.
Marri-na 4 ;1auea.