The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-06
hayor Shank Declares He In
tends to Bring All ViOIatOrS
Before Mental Inquest.
SAYS THEY MUST BE CRAZY
Plan Is to Hold Fast Drivers
Without Bond-CalIs Them
Dangerous Lunarics.'

Declaring he believes persons
who drive over thirty miles an
shour are crazy, Mayor Shank to-
day announced he was going to
instruct police to slate speeders
for insanity, and hold them in
Jail without bond unless lawyers
told him law Will not permit it.
THE fact that thirty-three persons
were arrested for speeding yesterday
after the newspapers had spread the
story we were going TO give speeders
a ride in the wagon all over their front
pages is conclusive proof to me that
fast drivers are mentally deranged,
said the mayor so help me God I'm
going to hold insanity inquests on
them II I have TO swear out the peti-
tions and pay for the doctors myself
Most Dangerous
''They are the most dangerous
lunatics we've got. Your nut who
goes around the streets believing he's
Napoleon IS harmless. We haven't
had anybody killed by such an in
sane man this year. and yet the speed
nuts have killed fifty-nine people this
year."
Mayor Shank centered his efforts
on an attempt to make safety zones
safe. He instructed the city pur-
chasing department TO investigate de
vices to be used for this purpose.
The mayor said he wanted plans
and prices on four or nve-fOot posts
Of steel or concrete TO be placed at
the corners of safety zones.
"a few speeders might be killed"
Shank said. But people in the zones
/, would he safe"
The mayor said he also IS inQuiring
into whether the police or City Judge
Wilmeth have authority to fix amount
Of bonds. The mayor ordered the
police TO hold speeders under $1,000
bail and the court established a scale
Of from 500 to 1000.
Creameries Testify
Fourteen pleaded guilty in city court
and paid fines.
The following paid fines of $50 and
costs: Horace Huey. 4532 Carrolton
Ave; Charles Winegardner. 3034 y
New Jersey ST; James Martin. 271l
Indianapolis Ave; Dempsey Neal. 1924
y. Illinois St; John Carstairs. 1880
EenwOOd Ave: Robert Neuling. $50
W Twenty-Ninth St; Maurice Elliott.
1901 WoOdlawn Ave; William Allison.
1921 Martindale Ave. Harry Clay.
g6l Norris ST. and Nigel HOlne, 7O1
= Thirteenth St.
One Who pleaded guilty and paid a
WeIch. 1855 " Gale St Earl Rob
bins, 2234 Central Ave, paid SIS and
costs. while Palmer Richardson, 1888
y. Senate Ave, refused to plead
guilty and after trial in which he was
found guilty was fined $50 and costs.
Frederick Holiday, 2927 \. Meridian
St. paid S25 and costs.
DIR. Paul Robinson. coroner, was
cooperating with the police in the in
vestigation of the fatal accident at
Washington ana Pine SITS. In this ac-
cident Mrs. Dolly Mitchell and Miss
. Josephine Herman were killed.
Mayor Shank las offered a reward
Of $500 for information leading to the
arrest OF the drivers of the two ma
chimes which struck the two women.
Investigate Clews
No one obtained the license num-
hers. Most witnesses said both cars
were Ford coupes. However. even on
that point some witnesses disagreed
and said one Of the automobiles was a
touring car.
When it became known that q re-
ward was offered for information that
would lead to the arrests Of the driv-
ers, tips" began to reach the police.
One man said one car was a Stude-
baker and the other an Overland tour
ing car. and that the drivers were
boOtleggers and feared to stop as they
had a cargo of white mule. Another
suggested that the two automobiles
were those which a dealer in another
city had bought from the Ford fac
tory on E. Washington St.