Mt. Pleasant City Attorney Edward N. Lynch, pictured left in the photo on right, had a six-member jury observe speed-time operation in November 1956, as prelude to a jury trial in which a motorist had been tagged by Mt. Pleasant’s new “semi-robot” cop and protested the ticket. Officer Maynard Pickens operated the machine for, from left beyond Lynch: Officer Tom Martin, Officer Ray Harless, Attorney Ray D. Markel, Defendant Gordon McKinnon, Judge James E, Ryan, jurors – Kenneth Elliott, Jessie Haight, William Downey, Joy Allswede, Louise Bissett and Leona Quinlan, Attorney B. A. Wendrow and Police Chief Vernel Davis.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Mid Michigan History: Beware of the Mt. Pleasant speed trap
via The Morning Sun
Mt. Pleasant City Attorney Edward N. Lynch, pictured left in the photo on right, had a six-member jury observe speed-time operation in November 1956, as prelude to a jury trial in which a motorist had been tagged by Mt. Pleasant’s new “semi-robot” cop and protested the ticket. Officer Maynard Pickens operated the machine for, from left beyond Lynch: Officer Tom Martin, Officer Ray Harless, Attorney Ray D. Markel, Defendant Gordon McKinnon, Judge James E, Ryan, jurors – Kenneth Elliott, Jessie Haight, William Downey, Joy Allswede, Louise Bissett and Leona Quinlan, Attorney B. A. Wendrow and Police Chief Vernel Davis.
Mt. Pleasant City Attorney Edward N. Lynch, pictured left in the photo on right, had a six-member jury observe speed-time operation in November 1956, as prelude to a jury trial in which a motorist had been tagged by Mt. Pleasant’s new “semi-robot” cop and protested the ticket. Officer Maynard Pickens operated the machine for, from left beyond Lynch: Officer Tom Martin, Officer Ray Harless, Attorney Ray D. Markel, Defendant Gordon McKinnon, Judge James E, Ryan, jurors – Kenneth Elliott, Jessie Haight, William Downey, Joy Allswede, Louise Bissett and Leona Quinlan, Attorney B. A. Wendrow and Police Chief Vernel Davis.
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