Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-01-14
MOTORCYCLE COP.
IS SHOT TO DEATH.
BY SPEED MAN|ACS.
DISCHARGE SHOTGUN AT PuRsu'
ING OFFICER WHILE MACHINES
ARE TRAVELLING AT RATE OF
sEyENTY.rWo MILES AN HOUR
ESCAPE.

son. motorcycle policeman at WIN
throp Harbor H., was shot to death
Yesterday By one OF five men, all saiu
"a be negroes, in a large blue touring
car he had raced at breakneck speed
gor aeyen miles to arrest the occu'
pants, believed TO have been rulhihs
whisky. ,,,
5, Part OF the wild flight was through
the heart of Zion City, Ill. Al tlmes
the speed of the car and motorcycle
reached seventy miles an hour
Near Beach, ILL.,, between Zion t'ty
and Waukegan. Peterson's machlh"
cverhauled the automobile. As ne
.yelled an order TO the driver to hait
one of the five men leaned from inc
rear seat, took deliberate aim with
shotgun. and fired two charges o.
buckshot into the policeman ahoo-
men.
The motorcycle swerved into often
beside the road. hurting Peterson ten
feet into a field. He was dead when
Melvin Jordan, l9 years old, Of beacn'
and George W. Paylik "a, and ~yle
Fast, farmers who were watching the
wild chase and saw It's finish, reached
his side.
News of the shooting was imme'
diately telephoned to Waukegan ana
other towns on the road to chicago
and police traps were laid for the
death car. Automobile posses OF
deputy sheriffs and police also began
Immediately to patrol all the surround
ing country in search OF the machine
but late last night it had not been
found
The chase which ended in the shoot
ing of Policeman Peterson began IN
Kenosha, Wis. The car with It's hv'
occupants, all believed to have heen
colored men. shot through that Guy
at high rate OF speed, deput!
sheriff undertook to halt them An
falling. started in pursuit
Winthrop Harbor is just south 81
the Wisconsin line. The blue cal
reared through that village al sixty
miles an hour, with the Wisconsi,
i. deputy close behind it, bit forced Il
give IN the chase because he was on
OF his own state.
Policeman Peterson took up th'
pursuit for him. With mnfler open
the big machine dashed into Zion City
Residents there watched in horror a
Oh. Il tore over half mile stretch o
rough, unpaved street, expecting mo
mentarily to see the car smashed an'
its occupants killed
Half mile behind it came Police
man Peterson on his motorcycle. II
did not slow down fraction OF mil
for the rough road. and when III
payed road south of the town wa
reached he was only quarter OF
mile away.
With both machines making thel
utmost speed they roared towar
Beach. Jordan, Pavlk and Fast
working near the road, heard tn
throbbing motors when they were tW'
miles away and watched the chase.
't When the car was almost opposit
where they wers working Peterso
drew alongside 1t. The three me
7' saw one Of the men in the rear sea
turn, yell something, then aim wit
We the shotgun and fire,
When the three reached Peterson
side the blue car had raced into tn
village of Beach and disappeared.
One of the men ran to telephon
word Of the shooting to Waukegal
AS the others attempted to carry p
terson to Beach, Deputy Sheriff Wi
son Of Kenosha, driving to Waukega
with his wife, came along in his aut
mobile
Peterson was loaded into his ca
and rushed to Victory Memorial no
pital in Waukegan. Physicians thei
CO.., said buckshot from the shotgun ha
struck him in the abdomen and neG
the heart and that he was dead eve
before he was placed in the deputy
machine
a Waukegan police who went to Il
scene of the shooting said the registt
on Peterson's motorcycle showed tn
the machine had reached speed
seyenty-two miles an hour in Il
chase Pavlik and JOrdon told the p
lice the automobile was running
..Htleast sixty-five miles an hour wht
the shots were fired from it,
The shooting aroused intense fef
ing in villages and towns along Il
north shore, and all night long volu
teers assisted police and deputies
The search for the blue car and Il
Siayers.