New-York tribune., 1899-12-31
KILLED BY A RUNA WAY.
MAN MEETS DEATH UNDER A HORSES
HOOFS AT A HARLEM CROSSING.
WOMAN WITH HIM WAS KNOCKED DOWN,
BUT ESCAPED INJURY-MANY PER-
SONS SAW THE ACCIDENT.

BUT ESCAPED lNJDR1-MAN1
SONS SAW THE ACCIDENT.
runaway horse and carriage dashed through
the crowd at One hundred and-twenty- -ffth-st.
and Seventh-ave at 5:45 o'clock last evening
and knocked down a man and woman, killing
the man. The driver Of the horse escaped.
The man killed was Gustavus F. Perrenoud, a
public accountant with an office at No. 81 New
ST. and living at No 697 West End-ave. His
skull was broken and internal injuries also re-
suited from the accident. The woman, Mrs
Mary c. Mcdowell a widow, Of Virginia, stay
ing at No 127 West Forty fifth ST., was not hurt
People were driving to and from the Park
electric and wagons were hurriedly passing
this corner, and there were many pedestrians at
the crossing just before o'clock, when dark
horse drawing q light carriage came along
Policeman Charles Johnson, Of the West one
hundred and d-twenty -ffth-st. station, saw that
the man was having trouble with the horse and
the animal was moving at fast pace.
Johnson ran forward to stop the horse, but he
was not in time to save the man and woman
They were together, and tried to step backward
as Johnson shouted and other people uttered In
voluntary shrieks.
The horse hit the man first, and he fell against
the woman, knocking her out of the way. Then
the man struck against the carriage lie was
lnsensible when It was all over. and the morse
was madly racing down the avenue with me
driver still pulling on the bit, but unavailingly
The woman and the injured man were carried
into the drug store at the corner. she was not
hurt but she was hysterical and she suffered
slightly from shock. An anxiety TO conceai
her Identity helpe& her to recover her self-pos-
session and then she would tell nothing about
herself or her companion to the policeman
An ambulance was sent FOR. and 1t soon ar
rived from Manhattan Hospital but the man
died in a few minutes.
The mans body was taken to the police sta
tion in West One hundred and -twenty-ffth-st
The refusal OF the woman to tell anything about
herself or Perrenoud led the policeman TO insist
upon her going to the station. She at first re-
fused to talk to Captain Brown. but she nnally
described herself, and she admitted that the
man was Perrenoud which the police mad al
ready learned from papers in the mans pockets.
She said she had come to Harlem to make some
New Years present and had met Perrenoud al
her friends home. He had offered 10 accompany
her TO the elevated station at Eighth-ave ana
one hundred and twenty y-hfth-st. and they were
on their way there when the accident happened.
She told the police they were nhuman ana then
hurried away. She would not say from "ha'
part OF Virginia she came.
At No CO.. West End-ave, which Is known as
the Wissoniming Hotel 1t was said that Per
renoud lived there until Thanksgiving Day win
his aunt Miss Josephine Bayard. and his sister
Miss Annette Perronoud. The two VIC men LETT
the hotel on Thanksgiving Day, saying they
were going TO Denver. Perrenoud also left the
house and went to live in West Ninety -frst-st.
Moses Clenert twenty-five years old, living
at No 1855 Frst-ave., was arrested an hour
later on the charge OF killing Perrenoud.