Show Two Wanted Men MenH ELLO EVERYBODY H HELLO You know boys and girls in some of these adventure adventure adventure ture yarns Ive I've been telling you everything seems to happen happen happen hap hap- pen all in a split second Just one two three two three and its it's all allover allover allover over with action every doggone minute Then there are other yarns in which theres there's darned little action and the suspense of the story lies in the fact that some poor devil has to stand still while death comes creeping creep creep- ing up on him That sort of adventure drags out for a long time But the yarn Im I'm going to tell you today is like both of those mentioned above-mentioned types of adventures It went on for fora a long time and every doggone minute of that time was packed with danger and suspense And at the same time it was so full of action that you'd have a hard time packing another single movement into it it Its It's one of the most thrilling tales Ive I've come across in quite a while and the honors today go to a Chicago policeman police police- man man Albert Albert Rickert of Chicago It was a cool September afternoon in 1927 Al was off duty and with time on his hands he went over to the home of his pal Emmett Hartnett for a visit After hed he'd been there awhile they decided it would be a good idea to go for a ride Emmett got a acar acar acar car and they drove around for about two hours They were on their way to a restaurant when things began to happen As they drove along a small sedan passed them There were two men in hi the car and Al recognized them both as as automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile thieves Thieves Recognize Al as Policeman Al AI told Emmett to turn around and follow tallow that car They were I catching up to it when the thieves spotted the auto behind them and recognized Al 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 It and followed The faster they went vent the faster the smaller car ahead traveled Al AI pulled out his gun and fired one shot But the c car r 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 Gun In hand Al opened the door and climbed out on the theAnd theAnd 7 V d l I fr frAnd And then he was nas being dragged along behind the fleeing Seeing car running board to get a better shot at athis his quarry As Emmett drove and the car careened along the wide wide street he fired again and again Still the car ahead sped on Now Al could see that they were gaining on the crooks The small car didn't nave have speed enough to outdistance the big one in which they were riding Al continued to io fire lire until his revolver was empty Als Al's Car Nosed Alongside the Thieves 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 Al saw sa 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 sideswiped sideswiped side- side swiped them knocking them over to the side of the street There was another crash as the car lurched into a telephone pole but Al wasn't inside the car when it hit As the two cars came together he was caught between them and knocked down on the Ole running board Then as the smaller car veered away again his right tight leg was pinched between its rear fender and the bumper He felt fel a tug at that felt tog 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 tr trying ing to keep it going straight but it shot up over the curb on the other side of the street It crossed the si sidewalk and plunged on over a stretch of bare water-soaked water prairie Dragged along behind it Al AI felt a terrific bump as his body was pulled over the curb There was a terrible pain in his imprisoned imprisoned im im- irn- irn leg where th 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 AI was numb from pain and shock Then the car cat bogged down In the mud and came to a stop Als Al's clothes had bad been literally torn from his body by then but he still had bad his Ws hisgun hisgun gun clutched tightly in his hand band He Struggled to Get His Leg Out of the Trap There was no chance to use It II he says but as ns soon as the car came to a halt I began struggling to get my leg out of its trap The driver jumped out and ran north across the prairie 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 1 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 crook on the b back cl of or the head and he fell feU forward on his face out face out cold At the same moment Emmett extricated himself from his wrecked car and came cam running across the street lie grabbed the crook Emmett Emme took them both to a restaurant a block away and there he called the station station stationhouse house They took Al to the Peoples People's hospital and md he stayed there for three months getting over the injury to his leg The rear Icar tire had ground a ridge right into the flesh as the car dragged him across the prairie The crook he ho caught drew a n year 14 sentence The other one was shot down by an Englewood policeman three days later later later-In in another mother stolen car Copyright Service |