Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-09-25
ARREST z ACCUSED
OF CAUSING AUTO
WRECKS ON IVY WAY.
CHEVROLET TRUCK DRIVEN BY
YOUTH CHARGED WITH BEING
INTOXICATED, BLAMED FOR
PAIR OF SMASHUPS WEST OF
TOWN.

A crowd Of motorists, headed by
ox-ShcriG John Mischke, took charge
OF Otto Gebhard and Francis Doolin
yesterday afternoon on the hard road
at Covel Creek, west of town, aud
held them in custody while a hurry
up cali was sent for Sheriff Ayers,
who went out and placed them under
arrest on a charge of driving an alI-
tomobile while intoxicated. The
young men who were in a Chevrolet
truck are alleged to have crowded
u Utica ear of the road causing 1t
to oycrturn in the ditch, and then
to have crashed into the Ford tour
ing car belonging to Joseph h. Pfab,
ZIG Sixth street, Peru, crushing in
the front OF both the touring car and
the truck
Mr. Pfab, who was driving the auto,
had his left hand thrown against the
iron piece on his steering wheel with
such force that it lOosened the iron
and bent it down Mr. Pfab's hand
was so badly cut and bruised that he
had TO entere Ryburn hospital for
treatment following the smash up.
II may be that his hand has been
broken. The other eeeupantse-o the
car were uninjured.
The crash occurred at 4.30 O'Clock
Mr. Pfab, with an auto filed with
friends were going to Peru, and the
other machine was coming into Otta-
wa, Pfab claims that he saw the
truck coming toward him, and pulled
clear over to the side of the road,
in an effort TO avoid being hit but
was unable to avoid the crash.
The front Of the Chevrolet truck
was smashed in, damaging it to the
extont of more than 800. The radi
ator wind shield, fender axel, front
wheels, lights and other parts of the
front of the Ford were damaged to
the extent of SIS
The other accident to the Utica
car had occurred just a short distance
west Of the Pfab smash up. This car
is said to have been crowded from
the road and turned over on it's side
in the ditch, but the occupants of the
car miraculously escaped uniniured.
Some passing motorists, famed to
q great heat, took charge of the
young men, and phone to ottawa for
Sheriff Ayers to come out and place
thdn under arrest The Conde wreck
err was also called and brought both
machines into the Conde garage for
repairs.
Gebhard and Doolin were brought
Jail until this afternoon at O'Clock,
when they were given a hearing be-
fore Justice of the Peace George Koe.
mig.
The pair were given hearing be-
fore Justice of the Peace koenig this
afternoon, and were bound over to
the grand jury under S400 bonds.
Both furnished bonds and were re-
leased from custody.
An X-ray picture taken today show
ed that two bones in Mr. Pfab's left
hand were broken by the accident
The fractured are at two different
places.
The car which was wrecked by the
truck few feet from the Peru Ford
was owned and driven by Albert Pc
terson of Utica.
Brakes Fail on Hill-Bang.
Failure of the brakes on a touring
car to hold let the car loose while
coming down Dimmick hill yesterday
afternoon and let it crash into a
Ford coupe. The names of the driv-
ers of neither car could be learned,
but the Chevrolet was headed for
Ottawa while the Ford was en- route
west toward La Sale.
The Chevrolet had started down the
hill and was going slowly while the
Ford was coming up the hill, as the
Chevrolet neared the Ford the breaks
slipped and lie momentum of the
Chevrolet increased and the driver
became nervous and headed straight
for the Ford and the two cars crash
ed head on. AS the crash came the
Ford driver put on the breaks. thus
bringing both cars to a stop.
Employees of Whites garage were
called and repaired the Chevrolet or
the scene so that it could proceed Oh
its way while the Ford had both
front wheels broken and the Tenders
crushed as we'll as the front axle
bent out of alignment, was towed tC
Ottawa for repairs.
The occupants of neither car were
hurt and were only shaken up by the
jar and badly frightened by the crash