New-York tribune., 1922-03-14
bod &c Is Held
For Joy-Ride
Injury to Girl
Michigan Co-edPIungcsFrom
Car Driven at Furious
Speed by Late Magnatc's
Son and l. Seriously Hurt
lntoxication Is Charged
John ID. Gets Out of Jail OH
$1,000 Bail; Sent Wife to
Dance Before Speed Party
Special DiSpQfch to Tho Tribune

KALAMAZOO, Mich. March 13.-
J ohm Duval Dodge, son or the late John
+. Dodge, Detroit automobile magnate,
arrested Sunday after wild automo-
bile ride in which Miss Emmeline
kwakerneck, nineteen ycar-old West
crn State Normal School student
jumped from the car and was injured
was arraigned in Justice Court day
on two charges and released on $1,000
bail
On the first charge, driving while in
toxicated, he was held in $1,000 bail
On the second, the possession, trans
lortation and furnishing Of liquor. he
was held in $4,000 bail Dodge had
been in jail since his arrest.
Miss kwakerneck. Sue Stcgcnga and
Ethel Clemens, all Normal School stu
dents, were returning homo from a
meeting late Saturday night when
Dodge and a friend, Rex Earl, the girls
said, drove UP to the curb and offered
to take thcm home. The girls accepted,
hut protested, they said, when Dodge
drove past their rooming house and on
out into the country.
Leaps From Speeding Car
Their cries were drowned out when
Dodge opened the mufler and drove
at what the girls said was a rate from
siytY to ninety miles an hour Five
miles west of the city Miss Kwaker-
neck jumped out of the car. receiving
fracture of the frontal bone above
tho right eye. She was brought to a
hospital by motorist. who found her
unconscious in the road.
Dodge became alarmed, the Clemens
girl said when five miles farther on
he was told Miss Kwakerneck had
jumped out. When they drove back
looking for Miss Kwakcrneck officers
took the young men into custody and
released the girls.
The girls told the officers that aside
from being driven at a high speed and
being offered a bottle of gin, neither Of
the men did anything to offend OF
friehten them. Two of the girls said
Dodge and Earl were intoxicated.
Says Girls Spoke First
Dodge told the Sherff's officers
after his arrest that the girls had
spoken to him and his companion first
and that this had led to the invita-
tion extended to them to enter the
car. He insisted that he had not
been drinking at, all that evening and
in this statement he was supported by
Earl, although Deputy Preston and
Frank Ryan, local laundryman who
was present at the time of the arrest
declare that while Dodge was not in
toxicatcd he showed unmistakable
signs OF having been drinking.
The presence Of a bottle Of gin found
in tho car was explained by both Dodge
and Earl by saying that they had taker
it along to prevent "Everard from
drinking it, Everard and Mrs. Dodge
having gone to dance together while
Dodge and Earl had gone autoing
"My wife and came to Kalamazoo or
Thursday evening" explained Dodge
at the Burdck, whore Everard stays
and until Saturday evening E,verard ano
Earl and myself were together prac-
tically all of the time. My wife anc
EVerard then went to a dance and Ear
and went out in the car and ran into
the three girls from Grand Rapids
did not invite the girls to get into the
car. 1t was Earl who did that, and o1
course | could not raise much of al
objection"
Dodge insisted that for Emmelinc to
jump out Of the car was the "most
ridiculous thing he had ever hearc
Of and he vas quite emphatic in try
ing to assure the officers that it was
not his fault she was injured Al
he and Earl intended to do was te
give the girls a pleasant ride before
/ taking them home, he avorred
At the death Of 10hp DoHUo
years ago, John jr. was cut off witt
only $50 After many months, how
ever, there was a settlement made ou-
of court, and young Dodge was giver
S2,000,000 Of the s50O00,OOO estate
Dodge is now awaiting trial in Detroi
on charge of speeding: He has beer
served with a summons by Judge Bart
lett, who is making a speciality of hand
ing out Jail sentences to reckless driv
ers without the option of a fine