The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07
WAGE WAR
ON HIT-RUN
MOTORISTS
Six New High Speed Motor
cycles for Police Due
k at Station. z.k
GIRL KILLED; BABY HURT
Department Learns Owner
of Accident Car.

With six new high.speed police
motorcycles due at any time, Capt.
Lester E. Jones, police traffic depart.
ment head, today started his motor.
cycle squads on a campaign to stop
reckless driving and prevent hit
and-run auto accidents.
~ 21'months-old baby and a 20.
year-old girl were victims of motor
lists, auto drivers who sped away
after accidents, over the weekend.
The girl was killed, and the baby,
Jackie Broadly, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Broadly, 26t4 Central Ave, re.
ceived a fractured arm.
Jackie, standing with his father in
front of their home Sunday after
noon, broke away and ran into the
street. A large, closed touring car
struck the baby and its bumper
knocked him to the street. The
rear wheel of the car passed over his
right arm, splintering the bone
from the shoulder to the elbow.
The car, occupied by an elderly
couple, almost came to a stop and
then speeded away. Police found the
hit and rum auto was owned by an
Anderson Qnd) man.
The child was rushed to the office
of DR.. Fred L. Pettijolln, 2460 Cen
trail Ave, where an N.ray examina-
ton revealed the fractured arm. No
internal injuries arc believed to have
been received.
Sergt. Frank Owens Is attempting
tc trace the owner Of the auto at
Anderson. Owens also said he had
clew to the identity of the hit-and-
run motorist who crashed into the
baby carriage of Mrs. Vernon Had
ley, 20. of 4425 E. Thirtieth ST., on
Thursday night, and fed without
waiting to sec if he had injured the
two children, is and months, re-
spectively, in the cab.
Mrs. Hadley was wheeling the two
children in the carriage at 5000 L.
Thirtieth st. She and the children
were hurled into the ditch, but the
babies were only scratched.
Fast Machines
The six new four-cylinder motor.
cycles will replace antiquated ma
chimes now used by police, Jones
said. They will enable officers to
race with the fastest auto. If the
machine is speeding away from a
crash
Jones warned motorists that they
face much heavier penalty if they
flee. He also asked accident wit
nesses TO notice the license number
Of the offending auto so police may
trace the car if the driver fees.
Fatality Saturday
Funeral services for Miss Anna
Dugan. 90. "ht.and-run" auto victim,
Wtll be held at the home of her
uncle, Patrick Maloney, 1929 Deloss
St, at Sis a, M. Tuesday morning.
These will be followed by services at
ST. Johns Catholic Church at 8
o'clock, the interment taking place
at Holy Cross Cemetery. Miss Dugan
was an orphan and lived with
another uncle, Matthew Maloney, $50
Abbott ST., a city fireman.
She died Saturday night after be-
ing hit by an automobile driven by
Cleon McHenry, 26, 2517 Z. Tenth
St, deaf mute, at Abbott and West
ST., as she was about to board
street car. McEenry fed after the
accident police said. but was later
held Oh manslaughter charge.
Marguerite Marsischky. 8, of 2727
La Sale st. was slightly bruised
when she ran in front of an automo-
bile driven by Grover Bozzell, 1910
w. New York st. The accident was
said by witnesses to have been un-
avoidable.
The automobile of Cecil Stalnaker,
709 Congress Ave, was damaged
when a hit-andrun driver struck it
as it stood in front of filing sta
tioO at 3012 Northwestern Ave.