Show I APRILS RED AUTO RECORD SPEED MANIA CAUSES Eo bUt DEA Fir A ITU IUS In AND INJURIES IN SALT SAL I LAKE Police With Incomplete Record Charge Juggling ng of Numbers by Many Chauffeurs of automobile casualties in Salt Sak Lake for the month of D S April 1910 April 10 James Wellman a chauffeur name of not given overturned car and partially wrecked d it Occupants badly shaken April 11 James H E Moyle collided with Mounted Patrolman D ILp H Crowther unhorsing him birn at Main Mala and First South streets I April 16 Morton R BM Cheesman ran into an express wagon wag n killing Wiling Will Knowlden April 21 Ls Grande Grando Young thrown from horse and painfully injured when animal is frightened by rapidly approaching automobile April 23 Children of George W Reed sue ue M Itt H Walker W for damages for death of their father who was run down and killed by Wal Walkers Walker Walker kers ker automobile April 26 Hampton colored chauffeur ran into Robert Bobert Amos Pain Painful Painful ful ml but not serious injuries April 30 SOC 0 J Thor seriously injured when run down by unknown joy riders I IMay May 1 Clarence Buckley newsboy run over by taxicab owned and driven by Roe M Y Dodge Boy May die Two lives snuffed out and two others athers hanging by a thread in the hospital together with half halt a dozen other per persons persons perSons sons maimed and more or less Injured ts q the record of ot automobile casualties on the streets of ot Salt Lake during the month of ot ApriL In most cases the drivers of auto autor automobiles automobiles mobiles acted considerately about the accidents They hav stopped their cars and rendered all nfl the aid possible to the victims but In several severn Instances where here pedestrians have been run down by speed maniacs the lever has been thrown to the clutch and tey have driven away leaving their i on the pavement and the police pollee and the people to speculate as to the owner of or the car or the chauffeur driving drIvIng ing it itIn itIn In the case of ot C J J Thor Tl or who was run down at Third South and Main streets Saturday night and who Is at deaths door as a result of ot his Injuries the driver of the car which was filled with Joy not even slow down to ta ascertain whether his victim was dead or alive but on the theother theother theother other hand band put on full speed ahead was lost around the first corner The police are still sUII baffled b as to the Identity of the machine The state law provides that all aU motor motorcars motorcars cars Us shall be registered with the sec secre secretary re tarv of ot state and that officials shall Issue a number to correspond with tho the registration The number Is supposed not rot to t be transferable and must be placed conspicuously on the oar The police are supposed to keep a record of these numbers and In case or Cr accident aIdent the number on the car in oK kates ates atOs its owner The books of ar the secretary of state states s show EOw jow that In the state of Utah there are 1012 automobiles registered per cent of ot these machines are owned and operated in Salt SaIt Lake e ehe he police have a record only of ot r This arm of ot the law which Is supposed to enforce the law In re regard regard regard gard to right erf of the road and speed asserts that it has not been I I furnished 1 a supplemental or complete I I t of the registrations and car num I es eTs The secretary secreta of ot state says that Je e Is not supposed to certify the list t 1 the thC police pollee and that the record is open to not only anly the police but to the thep public pu p c cIt It Is generally conceded that the law lawt 1 t 1 regard to the regulation of ot motor rs Is woefully lame lam There Is no rec record record ord orI of a fine for violation of ot speed In the downtown districts Tho The regulation in cities clUes is one mile In four minutes and on There have been arrests In these cases a nominal bond hond was forfeited There Is no city ordinance regulating speed of motor i chicles t Me He The Salt Lake police are convinced Hat many automobiles are equipped ped with Ith fictitious numbers and have come comet t this conclusion after making futile to arrest of ot automo T jes iles who have run down citizens and then tun made their escape leaving the un fortunate wounded and bleeding in the streets However the police pollee are at loss to understand how they can prevent this practice There Is no specific law in the statutes which would warrant the arrest of ot a motorist for changing the license number of his automobile or duplicating the number of some Borne other automobile in view of deceiving author Several citizens and Patrolman Jo Joseph Joseph Joseph seph Armstrong were positive Saturday night that they had seen the number Continued on Page Five FITe APRilS RED REO AUTO RECORD Continued From Page One of the automobile that crashed into C CJ CJ J Thor Tor at Third South and Main streets But Investigation revealed that the automobile having the official reg register regIster register ister number that had been noted down by the patrolman and corroborated by citizens had been in a paint shop more than a week and that the owner had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been motoring for a simlar pe period perIod nod It I is also claimed by members member of the police polee department that in several In Instances instances stances the license number shield which must be suspended from the rear of ot the automobile frequently frequent has ha different numbers on either side They can cn be reversed at a moments notice A mem mom member member ber of the motorcycle squad recently found Identical numbers number on three dif different different different ferent automobiles in the course coure of ot a journey through the city Numbers Number on Two TITO To Sides Sidel The attention of ot the police has also been called cled to license numbers of au automobiles automobiles running up into the thou thousands thousands thousands sands Their records however show the highest automobile number to be About week ago the attention of ot the police was attracted to a li Ii license l cense cease number that was up In the 2000 mark accompanying what appeared to tobe tobe tobe be a regulation U C Us Several days ago age policemen were as assigned assigned signed to watch for two habitual vio violators violators of the speed sped ordinance who have been In the habit of dashing up State street to South Temple at a clip License numbers that swung from the rear of the automo automobiles biles bies were jotted down and taken Into police headquarters With Wih the license list before them officers found the names of the owners of the two auto automobiles automobiles mobiles Calling Cling them on oil the telephones In an investigation prior to making arrests arrest the police were astonished to find that the automobiles had not been on State street and that duplicate numbers had apparently been used by the speed ma maniacs maniacs maniacs The attention of the police has been called cled to the very ver latest among motorists swapping license numbers apparently In view of baffling authorities ties tes Various attempts made by the police policeto polee to prosecute motorists for violating the speed ordinance has invariably failed It has been argued arged by counsel representing representing defendants that Utah Uth speed laws are Insufficient to prosecute ReIgn Rell of or Speed Maniacs In a discussion of the recent reign of speed maniacs at police headquarters tens yesterday It I was pointed out that an ordinance regulating the speed of automobiles on various arlous streets of the city according to the amount of traffic cit will wil alone Insure the safety of citizens Members Member of the city council counci have been urged to pass new ordinances forcing foring every eyer person to take out a license be before before fore tore he may be permitted to run rn an automobile on the streets of or the city It I was suggested at police head headquarters headquarter headquarters quarters quarter yesterday that the system used in Denver Dener be enforced In that city the speed of an automobile is regulated entirely according to amount of traffic In order to obtain a license to operate an automobile the applicant for the license must first fIrt pass an ex examination and clearly show that he is familiar with wih the speed limitations of the various streets If I caught violating the speed ordinances ordinances ordinances nances his examination certificate is presented as a court evidence nee that ho rc was familiar with the th speed limita limitations limitations I Hon when he ho violated it It A third of offense offense tense means eans a revocation of ot the license with wih the result that the te speed maniac will wi endanger never citizens again agin be in a a position to |