DISTRICT POLICE COURT OFFICIALS CHARGED WITH SPEEDING NEAR BETHESDA
Rockville, Maryland (JFK+50) On May 7, 1923, the Evening Star reports Judge Robert Hardison of District Police Court along with attorneys Campbell Howard, D. Edward Clarke and Bailiff Roy Moore were arrested near Bethesda by two Maryland motorcycle officers for exceeding the posted speed limit by fifteen miles per hour.
While the men claimed they were going "only 27 miles an hour," the officers clocked their car at 50 mph.
The "highly indignant" officers of District Police Court had to leave $7 with Judge Riggs of Rockville before continuing on their journey.
JFK+50 NOTE
$7.00 in 1923 is roughly equivalent to $120.00 in 2023.
SOURCE
"Hardison in Party Fined as Speeders in Rockville, MD," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., May 7, 1923, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
