Beulah Martin Speeds Away from Police Chief, Aug. 7, 1925

Woman Gives Police Long Chase in Ford. . . Had Drunken Man as Companion and Threw Some Liquor from the Car

Newton, Aug. 7—Chief of Police Tom Gabriel had a very exciting race this afternoon with a woman driving a new Ford coupe.

The woman, Beulah Martin, who has given the police here considerable trouble, with Gordon R. Berry, prominent railroad man of Connelly Springs, at her side, in a drunken condition passed through the city about 1 o’clock, the chief noticed the condition of the man in the car and started in pursuit. When the woman saw the policeman approaching, she threw a small quantity of liquor from the car and stepped on the gas.

The chief says he was making 50 miles an hour, and yet the Ford kept in the lead. Three miles out of town he ran his car, a Studebaker, into the Ford before he could stop it. Both cars were slightly damaged. The man and woman were arrested and brought to the Newton jail.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 8, 1925

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