The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-24
FIFTY MOTORISTS
FINEDFOR SPEED;
NOCARS STORED
Judge WiImeth Refuses to
Let Drivers Escape Actual
Payment.

Motorists, convicted of speeding in
Nspeeders' court today, had to pay
@thelr fines, Judge DeIbert o. Will
#meth refusing to allow them to
store their cars in preference to pay
Ing their fines.
81 Wilmeth stated he wished to OBJ
&serve what effect his ban on storage
Ion cars would have on speeding,
land that if fewer arrests were made
next week. he would make the policy
sof forcing motorists TO pay their
Zines, permanent.
4 Fifty were fined. Judgment was
withheld in two cases and continu-
zances were granted to seventeen.
To William Secrist, 1920 S. Hard
ing St, went the crown as the fast
lest speeder since police began their
Hdrive against fast driving, more
zthan six weeks ago. Secrist was
Sfned $50 and costs for going sixty
miles an hour. Secrist was arrested
by Sheriff George Snider after a race
on Kentucky Ave. July II.
j Lowest Is 81
The lowest fine was given E. NJ.
7Wells, 1926 Central Ave. He paid 81
y without costs for going twenty-eight
3miles an hour. Officers testified
wells was driving in a sparsely
settled section near Crown Hill
q cemetery.
Attaches noticed a number Of
1 speeders- in court for the second
time. However, the affidavits
against these men did not include
i previous arrest Wilmeth cautioned
officers to include previous arrests
in all cases in the future.
These were fined court costs are
not includedl:
Carl Allen, 1915 Kenwood Ave.
thirty miles an hour, s35; Milford
Bennett, 126 ". Thirty-Third St,
thirty-two miles, $50; Charles Ste
vens, 1881 ". Tenth St, thirty-ffve
miles. SIS; Bernard Beasley. 81
Leeds Ave, thirty miles, SO; Tony
Jardina, GIG Stevens St. twenty
eight miles, SO; Oscar Ferrel. 3O1
Auburn ST, thirty-three miles, SIS;
Louis Walp. S29 Birch St, thirty
miles. s12s
Fined $50 for Sixty Miles
William secrist. 1924 s. Harding
St, sixty miles. $50; Martin Tim
mons, AS n. Denny ST., thirty-four
miles, S27; Harry Kramp, PAL E.
Minnesota St, twenty-eight miles,
SO; Fred Snyder. .422 E. Pratt ST..
thirty miles. $27; Albert Neal. 1928
Cornell St, thirty miles. SIS.
William Turner, 2O10 S. Belmont
Ave, thirty miles, $50; Hayden IIib-
bitt, 1886 E. Eighteenth St. thirty
miles, SIT; Floyd Thompson, 1856
S. Harding St. thirty miles, SIG;
Hubert Kenworthy, 1925 Boyd Ave,
! thirty-five mile, $50; Carl Blackburn.
i S22 z. Athon St, twenty-e1ght miles,
SO; Frank Farlow, 1916 Wilcox St,
thirty miles, SI7; William Sweeney,
1850 Woodlawn Ave, twenty-eight
miles. SO.
One Escapes Costs
Louis Sturgeon, AIS E. Twentieth
ST., thirty miles. SIC; c. ]. ,NIcMeans.
1885 Central Ave, thirty-hve miles.
81; George De Van. 4835 n. Illinois
St. thirty miles, $14; E. NJ. Wells.
1926 Central Ave. twenty eight
miles, 81 without costs; Albert
Meyer, $50 S. Noble ST., thirty-fve
miles. S13; n. J. Fritz. 445 Sanders
St. thirty miles. $40.
Clarence Schafer. 109 ". st. Clair
St, thirty-one miles, SIT; Charles
Smitha. 319 Beauty Ave, thirty-one
miles, SIC; Clarence Schultheis, 1901
Wright ST.. thirty miles. $40; Charles
Navorra, 542 E. Merritt ST. thifty
miles, $14; A. L. Powers, 1862 N
Pennsylvania St., thirty-three miles.
SO; Albert Moody, 1913 Roosevelt
Ave, thirty miles. $40; John Hub
bard, Noblesville, Ind, thirty miles,
$12; CIetus Williams, 2519 n. New
Jersey ST., thirty miles, s12; r. R
Alley, IS n. Sherman DR., twenty
three miles, s33.
Speed Averages Thirty
Curtis Simpson, 1857 n. Pershing
Ave, thirty miles, s11; Floyd Webb.
S26 E. Forty-Ninth St, twenty-nine
miles, SO; William Ahlers, 1921 Thad-
deus St, thirty-one miles. SIG;
Charles Gathers. POI E. Thirty
Third ST.. thirty-three miles, $23;
Glen Brady, 1927 S. Belmont St,
thirty-five miles, SIG; Clarence HUI
vey, 241 W. New York ST., thirty
miles, SO; Paul Stenson, 1927 Yam
-des St, thirty-hve miles, S19; C C.
Thompson, SEVERN Hotel, thirty
three miles, 81; Fred Mailman, 240I
Brookside Ave, thirty miles, S14;
William McCurdy, 1926 z. Tabor St,
thirty miles. $14.
William Benton. Salem Park, thir-
ty-flve miles, $19; Raymond Williams,
81 N West St, thirty miles, S16;
Herman Sawwell, 50T5a Indiana Ave,
thirty-one miles, $40; Ray Smith,
3S2 n. Blackburn ST.. thirty miles,
SO (suspendedl; Joe Reid, 1904 n.
Sherman Dr., thirty-two miles, $14;
Roy Gates. Lawrence. Ind thirty
miles, $40.
Wilmeth delivered the usual. lee
ture upon evils Of fast driving and
failure to use proper hand signals.
He read a list of accidents which
appeared trivial at the time they
happened, but which resulted in
deaths.
Sergeant Halstead, in charge Of