New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-11
A CYCLISTS FATAL RIDE.
SHE DAsHES AT TERRIFIC SPEED INTO
ANOTHER RIDERS WHEEL
TIL: ACCIDENT SAID TO HAVE BEEN CAUSED By
THE INSULTING JEERs or IDLERS-oNlH
WEEK AGO HER HUSBAND HAD
BOUGHT THE BICYCLE FOR HER

THE INSULTING JEEkS Of llLf.hT ''NN' d"
WEEK AGO HER HUSBAND HAD
BOUGHT THE BICYCLE FOR HER
Mrs Agnes Devere twenty-five years old OF No
sa5 Ninth-ave was thrown from her bicycle
Wednesday night at Eighth-ave and forty-sMtn-
st and died sos o'clock yesterday morning
The accident was the result of a collision with
bicvcle ridder by Carl Hendrickson OF NO -
West Seventeenth-st. Though at first the woman
was thought to have been only slightly injured,
after she had been removed 10 Roosevelt Hos'
pital it was found that she Ia received irao'-
ure at the base OF the skull Mrs p"Vere was
unconscious for three or four hours before "e'
death.
Many persons who saw the accident say that It
nas caused bv several men who shouted rudey
at Mrs Devere She had been rding in company
with friends until a late hour In the party was
a girl of thirteen, and, as the friends did ho' sly
arate until after 10 p. m, she was aiIun ~ i'''
alone to her home at Thrtieth-st. ana tighth-a'e'
Mrs Devere consented 10 accompany her ana,
after bidding her good night. Mrs. DeVere turieo
toward her home riding up Eghth-aVe'
There was nothing to mar the pleasure OF her
exercise until she reached Forty-ffth-st. lnefe
II is said some ders called loudly TO her MIS-
Devere feared the men would further annoy her
and increased her speed Then others are saia
IN have Joined i'm shouting at her At this Mra
Devere "scorched' wildly up the avenue. and IN
her excitement seemed to lose control both OF ner
senses and of her wheel
While going at mad pace she crossed 10 the
wrong side of the avenue. Fiendrickson and Lar
son were coming down. and when they saw the
woman riding so furiously toward Them Hen
erickson turned in close behind Larson In an FL
fort TO avoid a collision. II was too Iate' HOW
ever and Mrs Devere crashed into the "he.l i'u-
den by Hendrickson The force OF the co"s0"
was so great that the woman was throw" ''"
over Hendrickson's head Unconscious she was
picked up and carried into the drug store u
Charles Valerius. at Forty-seventh-sI =" an
buIance responded to telephone message Az"
she was removed TO Roosevelt Hospital
A reporter was passing up Eigh'h-aNe' S"o'"'
before . o'clock yesterday morning WIZ" "
acccsted by Il man wearing no hat " -,
running franticaly down the street H' 'NP'''"
,b,t no was searching for his wife who h"d lei.
bors on he, bcycl, early in the night ana haa
no, returned He was told of the injured woman
., rho bosnltaI He FASTENED there and recoshi@eu
her as his wife 90, ,ros,
Hendrickson is an uphosterer al No 40
Eighteenth-st. The young man was arresu'u
terday morning and was taken 10 INC i''
Sour' ~ nrhthave on the right side OF the road
shortly after II clock Wednesday night WIN yonn
when Mrs Devere ran into hen as
Hendrickson had also been thrown io' lr r' an
Rnosevei Hospital and returned TO hls h tasn
Shortly before o'clock yesterday .,s Vim his
DIR pkSOu sparirV
h.ad in hondares He apparently sg n,re
great pain He stood by the side OF MT, - pe I'M.
the dead womans husband WHO was
terly IL testified that
JIendrickson was riding behind MN INNS t wss
ON the same side Of tho avenue Lar %. ,honsb she
Mrs Devere. Her wheel wooolea a. Elm u' sa}siv A
had lost control Of it, but she passed MN ,oman
second later he heard 4 crash ana sa" tne 80
lying on her back and Hendrckson on m, me- next one
TIE husha nd of the dead woman was t't 81 vaeis-
90 tns,isw In answer to a question asked oy % 1as
tra,e Tiammer as TO whether or not ~. ne, she was
accustomed riding wheel ne s sad been riding
wears ago and that lately she hau WV
again -. .. H. .aid that boush.
,,y u'iSe n wheel and she on nc, IN sixth
night 70 meet me at Burns's restaurant "
After giving this testimony he orGsr could not
wept He finally added that ne sa,nnsd no one for
have been averted and that ne h o' h. would make
his wifes death He also said tnat ~ Magistrate
complain, asains, Mr. sTersl other wtne,s
Flammer after cyan aon from custody Mrs
Devere's husband is a walter W