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...wounded man groaned, "oh God . . . get me my rosary ..." As the Navy chief bent over him, the trooper managed to whisper a report. His name was Ernest J. Morse. He had begun chasing a speeder near New Haven, and after miles of pursuit had finally flagged his quarry down. But as he got out of his patrol car, the speeder-a dark-haired youth in a grey overcoat-had pulled a pistol, fired once and driven away. The policeman muttered the first three digits of the youth's Massachusetts license number: 169. He gasped: "Go to the car radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Trooper's Last Words | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...trooper's whispered words, relayed to Westport police barracks, started Connecticut's biggest man hunt. The speeder, a 20-year-old Arlington, Mass, parole violator named John Xavier Donahue, was sighted that night as he drove into Greenwich, was pursued amid a hail of sub-machinegun bullets and driven to cover in a garage loft. Only minutes later he came out, calling "Don't shoot! I surrender!" By that time Trooper Morse had been dead for four hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Trooper's Last Words | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

Breaking Point. In Wichita, Kans., Policeman Max Price, chasing a speeder, ignored it when his hat blew off, kept going when the muffler fell off, didn't pause when the siren went dead, finally quit when his motorcycle caught fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 1, 1952 | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

...Tolls for Thee. In Kansas City, James Baker and Howard L. Hatfield were arrested for speeding while hurrying to a police station to post bond for a speeder friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 5, 1951 | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...recognized the limousine's passenger as Marshal Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky, Soviet commander in chief in Germany. After what had been almost an hour's delay, the marshal drove off, well within the speed limit. U.S. General Lucius Clay sent apologies. But the G.I.s who had slowed the speeder down were reported to be not remorseful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Where's the Fire, Bud? | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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