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Boys Speed Through Country to.Pleasure Resorts on Interurban Line.slt;Youths Awaken Farmers on TheirDizzy Ride—Wreck Narrowly Averted.BEIJLEFONTAINE, 0., July 14. An Ohio Electric interurban car was stolen here last night by noys who took a joy ride to Russells point, and there abandoned the car while they toured the resorts aboutIndian Lake park.The first car through yesterday narrowly avoided a collision with the abandoned conveyance whichhad been left on the main track. The car was once the privateNPIClStPiacoach*of President Kesley Schoepf Biof the Ohio Electric system and has the high sounding name of Mah-ketewah” painted upon the outside of it in gold letters. It has solid glass sides and is richly upholstered, with large mirrors. It has beenin use in the city service here.The trip of the joy riders occasioned considerable excitement along the route. It was an unusual hour for a car to be out and the unprecedented speed maintained througnout the trip aroused the sleeping farmers along the route. Most of them sawB.only two boys aboard and all who n got a glimpse of the joy riders say Dthey were not over 14 years. Whoever they w-ere, they sent the car careening along at a dizzy pace.The officers of the company say it is their first experience in having a car confiscated by joy riders and they have asked the police to makeIt was reqprted that two youths had been arrested and fined here in juvenile court for the escapade, but this proved erroneous. The police have not yet solved the mystery of the boys’ identity.flhMsit!e:oiir
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Norwalk Evening Herald
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Fri, Jul 14, 1911
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