From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, January 15, 1913: Nine alleged “speeders” were arrested yesterday and last night by a police squad patrolling North Side streets in the police emergency automobile under Mayor Shank’s direction. The arrests were the first of a campaign directed against law-breaking autoists, and results from a series of serious accidents within the last few days, following several of which the autoists fled, leaving their victims lying insensible on the pavement. “There is no excuse for not arresting these ‘speeders’….There is no question but a number of these serious accidents of late could have been avoided if the speed merchants had shut down their cars,” the Mayor declared. The crusade continues until “speeding” has been ended, and the Mayor says that he will participate personally in the arrests.