Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-07-29 | Page 2 | Hit and Run Driver Escapes Pursuers

Hit and Run Driver Escapes Pursuers Proceeding at a aped 1 d estimated at It about 40 miles an art hour a It hit run and driver crashed into a car driven by G G. J. J Knapp Kil- Kil bourn court shortly after midnight Wednesday and successfully eluded capture by the drivers of ot several automobiles who went in pursuit Knapp according to his report to police came carne south on Second East and turned east cast into Fourth South He had just completed the turn when a car driven at high speed nor northward on Second East crashed Into Ills his machine striking the right rear fender and demolishing the right rear wheel I Knapp napp escaped with minor injuries N N. J. J Berkheimer and t b Lt Vander- Vander vert who later hater reported to police witnessed the crash and went In pursuit of the fleeing motorist Al Although M AI thou though h the latter turned turne out Ills hits tail all ail light in I the hope of or obscurIng obscuring obscuring ing his license number numbers the pursuers pursuers pursuers pur pur- secured part of the number and a good description of ot the the- car p. p