Show 1 uI fin i A t 14 1 tJ I S Adventurers' Adventurers s Club Two Tivo W Wanted anted Al Men en enBy By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter unter T VOU OU know boys and girls in some adventure A I yarns Ive I've been telling you everything seems to happen all in a split second Just one two three two three and its it's all over with action every doggone minute Then there are other yarns In which theres there's darned little action and i the suspense of the story lies in the fact that some poor devil has to I stand still while death comes un ue on him That sort of ture ure drags out for a long time t Bu-t But the the yarn arn Im I'm going to tell you today is s like both of those mentioned above types of adventures It went on for a long time tune and every doggone minute of that time tune was packed with danger and suspense And at the same time it was so full of action action action ac ac- tion that you'd have a Po hard time packing another single m movement Into ILIts it IL Its It's one of the most thrilling tales Ive I've come across In quite a awhile awhile while and the honors today go to a Chicago policeman policeman policeman-Al- Al bert Kickert S Wild Chase After Automobile Thieves It was a cool September afternoon in 1927 Al was of off duty and with time on his hands he went over to the home hom of his pal Emmett Hartnett Hartnett Hartnett Hart- Hart nett for a visit After hed he'd been there awhile they decided it would be bea a good idea to go for a ride Emmett got a car and they drove around for about two hours They were on their way to a restaurant at Archer and Western avenues avenues ave aye when things began to happen As they came to Rockwell street a small sedan passed them There were two men In the car and Al AI recognized them both as automobile thieves Al told Emmett to turn around and follow that car They were catchIng catchIng catch- catch Ing lug up to it when the thieves spotted the auto behind them and recognized Al AI a aS a policeman They stepped on the gas gas and and the chase was on The car in front of them leaped ahead Emmett stepped on onIt onIt onit It and followed The faster they hey went the faster the smaller car ear ahead traveled Al AI pulled palled out his gun and fired one shot But the car ear ahead didn't stop Both those gas buggies were tearing along down the street at close to top speed The scenery was fairly whizzing past and people along the way stopped to stare at a race they had never seen the like of outside of a race track S Bullets Didn't Stop Them Gun In hand Al AI opened the door and climbed out on the running board to get a better shot at his quarry As Emmett drove and the car careened along the wide street he fired again and again Still the cat car ahead sp sped d on Now Al could see that they were gaining on the crooks The small car didn't have enough speed to outdistance the big one in which they were riding Al AI continued to fire until they reached Kedzie avenue and then his revolver was empty The big car had almost caught up to the little one now Bit by bit they gained until at last Als Al's car was nosing up beside the one in which the two thieves were riding They were running almost hood to hood now and Al could have reached out and touched the other auto when suddenly the front car turned sharply They had just reached St. St Louis avenue Al AI Al saw the crooks' crooks car swerving toward them but before he had a chance to do anything about it there was a crash The crooks sideswIped them knocking them over to the side of the street There was another crash as the car lurched into a telephone pole but Al AI wasn't inside the car when it hit As the two cars came together he was caught between them and knocked down on the running board Al AlVas Was Vas Dragged by the Fleeing Car Then as the smaller car veered away again his right leg was pinched between its rear fender and the bumper He felt a tug at that thai leg leg felt felt himself falling to the pavement pavement and and then he was being dragged along behind the fleeing car The car was out of control now The crook at the wheel was trying to keep it going straight but it shot up over the curb on the other side of the street It crossed the sidewalk and plunged on over a stretch of bare wa water soaked prairie Dragged along behind it Al felt a terrific bump as his body was pulled over the curb There was a terrible pain in his imprisoned imprisoned im im- im- im leg where the tire was scraping the flesh away His back and sides were being bruised and lacerated The car traveled a hundred feet through the prairie and by that time Al was numb from pain and shock Then the car bogged down dowil in inthe inthe inthe the mud and came to a stop Als Al's clothes had been literally torn from his rus body by then but he still had his gun clutched tightly in his hand There was no chance to use it he says but as soon as the car came to a halt I x began struggling to get my leg out of its trap The driver jumped out and ran north across the prairie Got Him With the Empty Gun At last I got my leg loose and crawled out from under the car I raised my gun and pulled the trigger but all I got was a click of the hammer In the excitement I had forgotten that I emptied the gun during during during dur dur- ing the chase As the gun clicked the second man leaped from the car and started to run And then Al made the pinch of his life Helpless and unable to walk much less run after the fleeing crook he got up on his feet and threw the empty gun after him That gun went straight to the mark It caught the cro crook croak k on the back of the head and he be fell feU forward on his face out face out cold At that same moment Emmett extricated himself from his wrecked car ear and came running across the street He grabbed the crook Emmett took them both to a n restaurant a block away and there he called the station house They took Al AI to the hospital and he stayed there for three months getting over the injury to his leg The rear tire had ground a n ridge right into his flesh as the car dragged him across the prairie The crook he caught drew a year fourteen sentence The other one was shot down by an Englewood policeman three days later later later-in in another stolen car S O e c Service |