Area Youths - Anspach, Baxter, Burger
Wild Auto Chase

Police arrested three area youths here Friday after a wild chase on the First Avenue Bridge and in the downtown Sterling district. The three were Melvin G. Burger Rt. 1 Rock Falls; Warner Baxter 711 10th Avenue Rock Falls and James Anspach Sterling. Burger was bound to a grand jury on a reckless driving charge: Baxter was fined $10 after he pleaded guilty of disorderly conduct and Anspach's case was continued after he pleased not guilty to reckless driving. Police said they started chasing the trio when they saw two cars racing across the bridge into Rock Falls. (Dixon Evening Telegraph 24 February 1951).

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