The sun., 1898-01-19
BIKE POLICEMAN KILLED.
NE coLLIDED T1TH 4 PAssENG ER
IlIG HTIHG FROM a CAR.

.dsres.-P Poiico Try 20 Arrest Iuiurea
passenger and Pest Snen nj Euis Door.
p,cvcle Policeman Frederick II. Lincoln was
.r,od last night in the effort to do his whole
sn,r spceding down Madison avenue after
.nossible lowbreaker he ran into man who
vas us, alghtlng from an electric car and the
two we're rolled In heap TO the curb. The man
owns struck Julius Hirschberg of 157 East
ssvcnty.ninth street, Is confined to his bed, suf-
tcrnr from the shock and also. It 10 believed,
from internal bruises His physician said that
ne will proba ply recover In few days.
Ljncoln's post was Madison avenue, between
Eishtysixth and Fifty.ninth strcets He was
,upposed to ride over this stretch Of Madison
avenue, from one end to the other. as often
,s he could during the time he was on
duty When he was coming down Mad.
ison avenue last night he saw that
Young woman had been hurt by falling from
The step Of a downtown car at Seventy eighth
street. He caught up with the car. made quick
memorandum OF the number Of the car, name Of
the conductor and motorman, and then busted
himself caring for tho injured woman.
He called an ambulance The surgeon
bandsged her head, which had been slghtly
cut. She refused to 60 to the hospital. but was
taken to drug store at Seventy y-sixth street
and Lexington avenue. There. while Lincoln
was taking down her namo and address. the girl
became faint and another ambulance call was
turned in. This time the woman went to the
hospital.
In the memoranda which Lincoln had made
he had not included the address Of the mo-
torman which was necessary part Of
bis report So he went back to Mad
ison avenue and started after tho car.
which must now have been fifteen or twenty
minutes ahead of him. He took tho asphalted
"trip on the rIgh..hand side of the avenue and
rode his fastest. He was rapidly overtakfng tho
car, and at Slxty.third street ho WAS about forty
or fifty feet behind 1t whom 1t stopped rather
sud 'enly and q passenger. who was Mr.. Hirsch-
berg and two other men, friends Of his stepped
10 the street.
Lincoln vainly tried to slow up. He shouted to
IIirschberg, who was ahead OF the other two to
rtand still Stay whore you aref' In another
instant Mr.. Hirschberg, confused by the terrific
tpecd at which tho policeman was approaching
him and by the shout OF warning, jumped for
ward toward the sidewalk, and Lincoln was
upon him. The two were thrown in heap to-
gcther about ten PAGES from the corner.
The noise OF the smash brought people to the
windows of the houses both sides Of the
street. Policeman Park p. whitbeck. who was
at Slxty-fourth street and Madison avenue, ran
up and found tho two men inanmate In the gut
ter, lying on top OF Lincolns bicycle. Hirsch-
the bicycle policeman. They were too much
shocked apparently to attempt to aid the
injured.
asai WORKING s's q3S se
s; ss wi & ss iSssF
Policeman Manlanif. who had also been
called. that Ltncoln was dead. The police looked
sss MI aS SSfe JUMP rs
ssr aIs n and up the ars9ns nfo nsons b
lance and carried to the East Sixty.seyenth
street station.
sa ' s s G M III RsS e
Msa;on Syen2s and street nd
called a. tie house ,and, asked e see
physician. who refused to tell them what his
name was. but told them that Mr.. Hirschhere
md restvey must MOI d So san dstarbod Be The @ "s %n
iiy DID not kno". until the detectives told them,
a nC he4 sSsR % Sey pna nsat s Ss ss
was dead. although moment before they could
.,y nothing too severe Of his recklessness. The
friends we're who were with Mr. Hirschberg. res
They said that one or the other Of them would
cell nj the West SiNty.seveDth street station
this morning
"A poliGsman was stationed IN, front of the
house. This, SO the police said. did not signify
that Mr. hrschberg was under arrest. but was
s9%ySenF to OBTAINING him az witness for the
fur the accident on any one except the poor fel-
low who was killed.
"T.Sr book were found. They contained all tho
@ Mheb Thh b tspn had made his last
Is s rSsS1 ssnth Ths fret slip
s,,,l ssG9@sl; Eel from downtown car car at Is st and
.soI .h,,., aye Attended by DR. Rowland prssbyterian
on left side Of head.
on another slip was this entry:
~ A.. bFlen. motorman; Thos. Smith. Car 1904
81 Dorsey Ry is the name Of tho surgeon who came
TO Nile Greehy's assistance with the second
n.nlia im6allapce When tho woman was taken to tho
% noSsr the sn,ry sondafsSp SS. q Smith tho sss ssS
Inc motorman's address. Lincoln may even have
h% ss Capt paan RSahSS Dscsa Ss bs bs
sRs sssis sas
e sss:
m",sl, nnd ss,ef yoanse! than hi%sSlf lie was % un.
% .Srn m,,rH THAT ns he had found tho s ho %antad
aRa sSs w"S Tg .ODi al HI wss
nor Wbtre .io He %ouldnt ton who the grl was
was clean IIo was regarded as a an Unusually
ySee,rs,TIdi''ed' Sesrs nId ieveheaded man. He was 25
,o%ts Notwithstanding the reckless feats daily per-
formed by bicycle policemen, this Is the drst
badly Injured ~ wa
La.e last night man was sent from the head
quarters oi the bicycle squad with Instructions
cjJa jJrrrSt ~ Mr. Hirschberg on the charge Of homi-
tha,' no reported to the station BY telephone
Nhan r". NJ had gone to the house. but that
tbax mSh Mr. h!rschberg's family saw his badge
str sue! slammed the door In his face. He was In
hnS. huosa e 70 stay on the sidewalk and watch tho
sIrcee WIN the man from the East Si4ty-seventh
stt,Nt STATION and to Hirachbar0 IN
siblc N w oiie'' H"sSnoois " pos'
,,natf: Donahue of tho East Sixty.seventh
mar rei station reiterated his assertion that his
hmh hh,Sh hid no instructions TO arrest Hirschberg,
for for .St Tas simpy ordered TO keep watch of him
Tbe a,1h, ,ohN ,ehience OF the Coroner.
d.a..Ss hihnnlance surgeon said that Lincoln's
It"iih hni a been caused by fracture Of tho
-a''' Ills head had struck the curb.
NUSIO BLOCKED THE COURT
sudEe schaiz Com iued hat the Haaa Haa N