Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-01-11
Too Much Car,
Too Little Boy
Brings Grief
PatrOIman Johnson Nabs
T,Uo Boy Car Thieues
South of Pine City.

The moral to this one, especially
in Pine county, is that boys should
stick to their bicycles.
AS the story goes, State Traffic
holds forth in this district with Law
renee Thrun, was making his regular
tour near the southern end of this
district Monday afternoon, when near
Rush City he saw a Packard sedan
approaching. At first Officer john
sons attention was attracted to the
driver, who barely could look through
the steering wheel, and then he saw
a dent in one of the front tenders.
Of course nothing much is strange
about a dent in a car fender noW-a-
days, but that dent carried with it a
little red coloring which caused the
thought to flash through Mr.. john
sons mind that it just might be blood.
After the Packard had passed he
turned around and followed Upon
seeing this action on the part of the
officer of the law, the great big Pack
ard, carrying the ittie-bitsie driver,
first became a racing streak and then
almost blur as a 90-mile speed
was attained by both cars. However,
the patrolman, even with his V-8
Mercury motor, could not make much
Roadway in the chase, being handi-
capped by occasional traffic on the
pavement. But the boy and his Pack
ard were to accommodate in due time
when they approached the curve
which is also the junction with grav-
eled road 70 leading straight west.
Law Catches Up.
Nope, it can't make the curve at
that speed, so right down the middle
of old 70 goes the Packard and boy,
followed by the law. Within a mile
down the gravel, however, the Mer-
curry was rising too fast for the boy
and his Packard, SO the boy just ups
and stops to cool off and he will
possibly continue to cool off after
juvenile court in Duluth gets through
with him he had stolen a car.
Reveal Fantastic Scheme.
Upon being questioned, the 14-year
old boy-driver of the stolen Packard
and his 15-year-old boy passenger and
accomplice told of being Duluth boys
and how they had stolen 1889 Buick
sedan in Duluth Sunday afternoon,
driving it to Minneapolis and then
,hopJop;po - hocouco Of cborfooo IF
gasoline. Being bent on going to
Florida, however, they had decided
that they would do like many others
are doing in the big cities-snatch
women's purses-to pay their way
after stealing another car. They lost
their nerve in the purse-snatching
business and "got nary one," but
the car matter was different.
They wanted to get an old car so
that less attention would be attracted,
but the nice, fine 1889 Packard sedan
was the only one with careless
enough owner to leave the keys there
in. That, of course, would do, so
pushing it down the street from in
front of a residence where it was
parked, they started 'er" and instead
of going to Florida they decided to
go back to Duluth.
That's where 1--WE" and officer
Johnson came in, but the deed is
done and the boys, poor, misguided
kids, will travel the path of all law
breakers to learn that crime doesn't
pay.
In the meantime Patrolman john
son is getting the good natured "kid-
ding" of curbstone sitters at the
county seat for bringing in two little
boys, but he won't mind for an little
bitsie boy with great, big car can
sometimes be more dangerous than
big, bad man with great big gun.
His quick action will 60 down on
his already good record as an officer
of the law as a deed worth copying
by other officers who would serve
their constituents well.