Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-06-27 | Page 37 | Girls Drives Engine toward Certain Death

GIRL DRIVES ENGINE TOWARD CERTAIN DEATH SAN FRANCISCO June Jun 26 Climbing Into a cab of oC a Belt Line Lino locomotive standing on the tho tracks on the tho Embarcadero this morning Bernice Lacey Laccy a well known water waterfront waterfront front character threw open the throttle tIe tle turned on the automatic bell started the engine plunging over the tho tracks to an open switch toward the end of the Folsom street wharf Surprised when she found that In Instead instead In- In stead of at continuing along a n straight course cours the engine took an open switch which diverted It Jl onto the wharf the woman In the cab commenced com corn to scream at the top of ot her lungs Patrolman Peter who ct at one time handled the throttle be- be tire ho he became a took Inthe in inthe inthe the situation at a fL glance and as the engine gained headway he dashed quickly across 88 t the e street leaped Into cab can and got control contra just as tho the locomotive was nearing tho the wharf Ho Ito reversed tho the throttle drove dro tho the engine back Into the Embarcadero where he be was mot met by the engineer who had gone Kono away for tor a few tew minutes min mm- utes during which time his position had been usurped Bernice Lacey who said she was wasa a real Casey Jones was waR escorted from the tho cab to tho the p police patrol wagon by Officer Whalen This morning sho aho appeared before Police Judge Oppenheim was pleaded guilty huilly and the thc charge against her that of confiscation Uon was dismissed dismissed dis dis- dis missed miMed by the court with the ad admonition admonition admonition ad- ad monition that she sho keep of engines and go out and climb about a different dif dlf- dif dif- ferent terent sort of vehicle Tho The defendant thanked the court and said Mid that she had tried pretty hard of ot late but would woul try harder In tho the future futuro No damage was done by her hem esca- esca Dade p but had It not been for Officer Whalen both engine and would probably be at the bott batt the tho hay buY now noVo i