The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-19
CAR OPENS. FIRE
ON POLICEMAN
Officer Hanson, Seeking to
Flag Unlighted Car, is
Used as Target.
PAL OF MURDERED COP
Hanson and Petersen We're
Childhood Friends and School
mates in Bristol.

Officer Eric Hanson attempted to
flag Hudson automobile which was
crawling along west on Prairie avenue
without lights at midnight Saturday,
when suddenly to his complete sur
prise, one of the occupants of the car
opened fire upon him. One shot was
fired, missing the officer by margin.
Hanson, as soon as he recovered his
self-possession, whipped out his gun
and fired volley of shots in the di-
rection of the car, without effect, how
ever, and the car continued on its way.
The sounds of the shots sent an cpl
demic of terror among the citizens of
the neighborhood, and rumors of an
other italian shooting" were spread
all day Sunday.
Childhood Friend'of Peterson's.
The attack on Hanson following as
it does the brutal murder of Officer
William Peterson on Friday have con-
WINGED the police that a band Of the
worst kind of desperados have COM
menced operations along the lake shore
towns. So far there is nothing to con-
meet the persons in the Hudson with
the automobile whose occupants killed
the Winthrop Harbor officer. An inter
esting feature, however, in the two af-
fairs, is that Hanson and Peterson
were playmates in childhood together,
and attended the same school. The
farms of their parents were adjoining
in Bristol, and the two boys were in
scparable companions for eight years.
The shot fired at Hanson from the
mysterious Hudson Six appeared all
the more weird and uncalled for in
that the officer had made no move
other than the innocent signal to halt.
The car which was Hudson Six with
winter top was coming west on Prai-
RE avenue, according to Hanson, at the
snaiPs pace of four miles an hour
He noticed that there were no lights,
and promptly stepped into the center
of the road to flag the driver, between
Florence and Balm avenues. The re
Spouse of the car to the signal was
gun-fre. AS Hanson staggered with
surprise at this rudeness, the car con-
tinued slowly on it's way, and in front
of the Cummings hotel it seemed
about to come to a halt. ..a- -..e
Bandits Escape With Whole Skin.
Hanson who had recovered and got
ten his revolver into his hand, ran
after the car and opened fire. The
Hudson hurried forward Hanson
sent in a report to headquarters, and
a squad was sent to his aid Assist
ant Chief Cyzak, the three detectives
Rock, Breidt, and McCluskey and Of
fcer Buchanan were added to the trail
and moment later, Chief Logan and
Sheriff Rauen joined the forces. The
highways of the city and environs
were gone over for hours, but no trace
of car answering the description Civ
en- by Hanson was found. The sus-
picious behavior Of the car suggests
the theory that the occupants had rea-
SON to fear police inspection, and
meanwhile the incident has been re-
corded as danger signal.
Rumors of Tommy O'Connor.
Inc POiiCe refuse co put any cred
ence in the rumor going the rounds
that the bandit Who killed Petersen
may have been Terrible Tommy
O'Connor, who escaped from Jail in
Chicago recently. This report has no
foundation in fact other than that the
crime was one which is characteristic
of O'Connor's daring and cruelty.
Police here maintain that if the men
who stopped here, were the men who
committed the murder, as they believe,
it was not O'Connor as the descrip-
tons given of him do not tally at all
with that of the dasnarndn