JOE YANUL CHANGES FROM HARLEY
TO SCHWINN, CAPTURES THIEF.....
by Tom Yanul

1949

CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER JOE YANUL
NORMALLY RIDES A HARLEY-DAVIDSON
MOTORCYCLE.  SHOWN HERE ON HIS DAY
OFF  IN A STAGED NEWSPAPER PHOTO
WHICH RECOUNTED JOE'S DARING
LOWER-SPEED CHASE.

YOUNG TOM (ME) SHOWN WITH MOTHER ESTELLE, HAD BEEN SERVING AS ALTER BOY AT SUNDAY MORNING MASS AT ST. GALL'S CHURCH.  WHEN TOM LEFT TO GET HIS BIKE HE FOUND IT HAD BEEN STOLEN.

A FEW HOURS LATER WITH THE FAMILY OUTSIDE DOING YARD WORK, TOM SPOTS HIS BIKE PASSING BY, SHOUTS TO DAD, DAD GRABS OLDER SON RICHARD'S SCHWINN BIKE AND TAKES OFF AFTER CULPRIT. SHORT TIME LATER OFFICER YANUL RETURNS  WITH TOM'S BIKE AND THE THIEF  WHO WAS TURNED OVER TO LOCAL CHICAGO LAWN POLICE. NEWS  PHOTOG HEARS STORY, MAKES FAMOUS FAMILY PHOTO WHICH RUNS IN NEWSPAPER.

TOY GUN COURTESY SON TOM.

JOE'S 1937 PACKARD

BELOW - JOE YANUL, LEFT, WITH PARTNER BUD EGAN, AND 3 OTHER UNKNOWN MOTORCYCLE OFFICERS. UNKNOWN EVENT, ca.1949-51, APPARENTLY AN EVENT WITH SOME IMPORTANT DIGNITARIES - BACKGROUND HAS PRESS ON PLATFORM WITH TV CAMERA WENR-TV - THEN ABC TELEVISION.

FOR PHOTO HISTORIANS - THIS PHOTO IS VINTAGE ARNOLD H. CRANE PHOTO.

CRANE WORKED AS FREE-LANCE PHOTOGRAPHER WHILE IN SCHOOL, I ASSUME AT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, SINCE HIS ADDRESS IS IN HYDE PARK AREA.

CRANE, A LAWYER, BECAME AN INTERNATIONALY KNOWN COLLECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

LEFT END JOE YANUL NEXT PARTNER BUD EGAN.
THREE OTHER OFFICERS UNKNOWN - IF ANYONE CAN IDENTIFY PLEASE LET ME KNOW.  

BELOW - ANOTHER VINTAGE ARNOLD CRANE PHOTO THIS ONE OF ARTHUR GODFREY  OFFICER JOE YANUL STANDING IN BACKGROUND

YOURS TRULY & OFC. YANUL ABOUT 1944

2 VIEWS OF JOE ON HIS INDIAN MOTORCYCLE ABOUT 1946 ABOVE JOE'S BROTHER WALLY,  JUST BACK FROM SOUTH PACIFIC TRIES OUT THE INDIAN 1940 SPRING LEAF  CHIEF

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