The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-09-18


last night, came into the police sta
ton this morning before seven and said
he had heard that the police were
looking for him.
The arrests were accomplished by
excellent work on the part of the po-
lice lead by Assistant Chief Cyzak,
Lieut. Rock and Sergeant Kirsch and
through cooperation on the part of a
woman, Mrs. Thomas Hughes, 327 Rice
avenue, who gave the first information
| that lead to the finding of the Paige,
| and through the cooperation of the
parents of Richard Baxter, one of the
occupants of the car, who insisted that
| he should go down and tell the police
| the whole story.
Made Way for the Coroner.
! Mr.. Parker and his daughter and Mr..
Schmitz and his son were standing at
the street car tracks on the northwest
corner of Milwaukee avenue and North
street waiting for the street car from
| the north when they were struck.
! Schmitz said he was the first to
leave the curb and as he stood at the
tracks waiting for the trolley, whose
| lights were already visible up the ave-
nue., Mr.. Parker and the young lady
came and stood beside them. Mr..
Schmitz recognized the coroner and
stepped back with his boy in order to
give him and the lady with him prece-
dence in boarding the car. Perhaps
| this instructive courtesy on Schmitz'
part saved his own life.
| Automobile Strikes; Speeds On.
Then something happened-so fast
| that it was over before Schmitz was
aware Of just what took place. An au-
tomobile coming from the north at a
great rate of speed, he said, travelling
along the curb on the west side of the
street, shot out from the curb, describ-
ing a semi-circle, and struck the wait
ing group. The speeding automobile
struck the four people, felled them and
dashed on without stopping, continuing
its way south. Neither Schmitz nor
his boy could tell what kind of car
| it WAS, the color, license number or
anything else.
When the coroner was struck, it is
believed that he knocked over Schmitz
who fell in the street car tracks, and
Leroy fell on top of his father. Jean
| Parker caught by the speeding death
car, was carried along about 18 or 20
! feet before her limp form fell to the
pavement.
A Grim Case for the Police.
Sergeant Matthew J. Kirsch was do
i ing duty at the police office when at
$3.50 D. m. there came telephone call
for the ambulance, to be sent at once
to North street and Milwaukee avenue.
/ 10 nod OF hIy q n
tomobile,, the person at the telephone
reported, man not expected to live, and
| the automobile escaped.
| OfficersIL L. Bauschelt and Pecan an
swered with the ambulance, Assistant
| Chief Cyzak close on their heels in the
| Paige. Added to the grimness of such
call, the assistant chief and the am
bulance men found to their infinite dis
may that the unconscious victim they
lifted from the pavement was that of
| the coroner of Kenosha county, whom
they had worked with IN cooperation
an infinite number of times on just
such cases, finding him always pa
tient, pains-taking and relentless in
pursuit of his, duty.
/ But Clarence E. Randle, 317 Valen-
tine street, was the first person who
came upon the injured. He was driv-
ing north on Milwaukee avenue in his
Ford sedan when he saw two persons
! lying on the pavement. He stopped and
j ran to their assistance. He saw two
others, Schmitz and his son, who had
just regained their feet. Randle has
tened to the side of the man lying face
down on the pavement, and turning him
over, recognized the coroner with whom
he had worked together recently on the
case at Fox River bridge when two
women were drowned.
Coroner Among His Friends.
While the police officers, arriving
with the ambulance, took the coroner
| to the hospital Randle lifted the young
woman and placed her in the car of
Peter ]. Kraak, 1874 Salem avenue, who
also had just arrived and volunteered
his assistance.
At the hospital fears for the injured
were at once expressed. There was q
grievous wound in the coronor's head
and the girl was believed to be suf-
fering from internal injuries. Again
at the hospital the coroner was among
friends. DIR. McCluskey, also associat-
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cases of fatal injury and death, at
tended the two victims, joined by 9th
ers of the hospital staff. The ambul-
ance was sent back to the police sta
ton, and the assistant chief remained
a few minutes to give what succor he
could. The urge of joining and direct
ing the chase for the driver of the
fugitive car impelled him to leave.
Credit to Mrs. Tom Hughes.
From the moment of>the accident the
wires had been busy at the police office
police cars and motorcycles constant
ly on the wing. At first there seemed
to be no clue to the identity of the
escaping automobile. Soon after the
accident man and woman came intC
the police Office and described Stude
baker car, light blue in color, which
they said had been seen speeding OF
the Lake Shore road going south. Per
haps this was the car, and the polio,
worked on this slender clue. Motor
man Rasmussen of the Milwaukee,
street car saw the automobile strik,
the four people but could only say tina
it was going about 30 miles an hour;
he could not describe it.
But meanwhile the real clue came in
The police desire that credit should b,
given Mrs. Thomas Hughes, not onl.
for the clue she gave, but for he,
promptness.
; 1t was about four minutes after tn,