Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-02-09
CHAPTER III.
POLICEMAN DAVIS STATEMENT.

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"Itrce timcsm he exclaimed.
Ny name is James Davis. am men,
her of the mounted squad of the New
York police force. Rank, patrolman.
was on duty in the Central park on the
morning of October nineteen, eighteen
hundred and eighty -. While patrol
ling my beat | saw n runaway horse on
the bride path near the mall. A young
gentleman was riding him, and | could
tell by his actions that he was a good
horseman, but | knew the horse for a
snowy but uncertain livery hack from
the stables of Rider d Crusoe, and
looked for an accident. | spurred my
own horse up and started to intercept
the runaway, but just as came near his
head he swerved suddenly and threw his
rider. My horse was too well trained
to let the runaway escape, however, and
within two minutes 1 had him fastened
" tree ana ram BACK 10 see II the gen.
tleman was hurt.
found him on his feet, apparently
unhurt excepting for a cut on his fore
head. which was bleeding freely. He
had fallen on his face against rock by
the side of the Bride path, for there was
blood on the rock. spoke to the gen
tleman, but he seemed to be dazed and
stupidlike, and when | asked him for
his name he seemed to be unable to tell
what it was. | took his handkerchief
ont of his pocket and wiped away some
Of the blood, but it continued to flow
quite freely.
just then another gentleman drove ur
near by and took the wounded gentle
man into his carriage. | mounted and
leading the runaway rode alongside the
rarriage to the station in the old arsenal
building. There reported the case to
the sergeant and returned to duty.
SERGEANT HoLLY's STATEMENT
/ was at the desk in the Central park
station on October nineteen, eighteen
hundred and eighty -, when Patrol
man Davis brought in a gentleman who
had been thrown from his horse. Davis
knew the horse, and as the gentleman
seemed to be rather seriously hurt and
was unable to tell his name sent word
to Comstock d. Rivers stable at the
The messenger from the stable re-
ported that the horse had been sent to
the Castle hotel that morning in answer
to a telephone call for a saddle horse for
gentleman.
DR.. Ambrose, the ambulance surgeon,
decided that the gentleman was not Sc
riously injured, but only partially
stunned, and asked him if he wished to
be taken to the Castle hotel He said
"Yes," and sent him there in a carriage.
sending policeman with him. The po-
liceman soon returned and said that the
hotel people knew the gentleman, who
was guest at their house, and that his
name was Arthur Levinson.
| 1t was not in the strict line of routine
| to send a gentleman home in Il carriage,
but Comstock d Rivers offered to send
one, and there seemed to be no objection.
DIR. AMBRosE's STATEMENT
! / was called to the arsenal to attend
the gentleman whom | now know as
Mr.. Arthur Levinson. He had been
thrown from his horse in the park and
had received a severe confusion near the
center of the forehead. There was a
slight laceratlon of the flesh of the fore-
head, which occasioned considerable
hemorrhage, but that was easily
stanched, and piece of plaster was all
the flesh wound required.
l suspected fracture of the skull,
but after an examination, which was Of
necessity imperfect, decided that the
| patient was i'll no immediate danger,
and as he appeared to be a person of
means recommended that he be taken
home and a private physician be sum
moned. He appeared confused and
either unable or unwilling to talk. and
! / attributed this to the fact that he had
been partially stunned by his fall. |
| found no other injuries.
THE HOTEL CLERKS STATEMENT.
Mr.. Arthur Levinson registered at the
Castle hotel on October fourteenth
eighteen hundred and eighty -, and was
assigned to room ninety. He attracted
no special attention until the nineteenth
coming and going like any other guest
He said to me the first morning he was
in the hotel that he was fond of riding
but that for a time at least he preferred
! to hire horse rather than to buy one
as he did not know how long he would
remain in the city. He inquired if he
could have II horse brought to the door
every morning, and when told him he
could he said he preferred a spirited
animal.
On the nineteenth he went out as