A midnight drinking party and joyride which was brought to a climax on a lonely road in the town of Wauwatosa when one of the girls was knocked down three times by one of two youths who then fled from the scene with the other girl, was being investigated today by deputy sheriffs and the police.
Miss Emma Shaw, 18, 1010 Twenty-ninth St., a telephone operator, is the girl who was struck down. Miss Alice Brown, 436 Second Av., also a telephone operator and also 18, and two young men, known only to the girls as "Gene" and "Hank," were the other members of the party. The girls met the men on Wisconsin Av. they said, and accepted their invitation to take a ride.
Mrs. Augusta Siegel, living on Curtis Av., two miles west of State Fair Park, between Greenfield Av. and the Blue Mound Rd., was aroused about 12:30 a.m. by a girl's [page 2] screams. She turned on the porch light and aroused her son, Roland Siegel, who is constable of the town of Wauwatosa.
A moment later, as Mrs. Siegel opened the door, Miss Shaw stumbled into the hall. Her face was bleeding as a result of blows she had received, she said, when she went to the aid of her friend, Alice. The men then fled in the car with Miss Brown as she cried out for help, Miss Shaw told the Siegels and deputies who were called to the home.
Before driving to Curtis Av., the girls said they had stopped at a roadhouse and had several drinks of wine. The men also had "hip flasks" of liquor, they said.
The car driven by the men was a new one with a license application pasted on the windshield, according to the girls.
Miss Brown said they drove her to her home and then left. The men are said to be frequenters of the roadhouse where they took the two girls and their apprehension is soon expected.
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