The sun., 1901-08-04
AUTO CHASE IN BROADWAY.
CLARENCE DIMsMORE's FLYER
STOPPED ny THE Police.

Three Cops and q Crowd ON Three Pursu
Ing Trolley Cars-Theught Man Had
Decn killed-me Chauffeur From
Paris Locked Up and Then Bailesi
,, Clarence G. Dinsmorc. the clubman and
amateur automobilist. was chased up lower
| broadway yesterday afternoon by three
policeman on a. many trolley cars. Mr..
Dinsmore. with two friends and his chauf-
feur was following q serpentine course
up from the Battery in a big gasolene auto
mobile, Panhard, recently sent over from
Paris The machine was painted bright
red and to folks In the street and on the
Broadway cars IL seemed to be going like
sin. The crowd put the two things to-
getber-red and sin-and jumped to the
conclusion that the machine was young
William X. vanderbt's new racer, the
Red Devil.
That did not detract anything from
the interest In Mr.. Dinsmore's run in and
out around trucks and cars, and when tho
three policemen hoped aboard the three
cars and ordered the motormen to 20 ahead
full speed those three cars Immediately
began TO do business az observation trains.
Before they could get under way for the
automobile chase enough passengers got
on to crowd the footboards.
The activity Of the three cops was not
on account Of the speed at which the Paris
ian hyer was going. II was the result OF
an optical Illusion and the mistaken no.
ton that q man had been killed. When
the automobile reached Dey street q man
was almost caught In front OF 1t and fell
In In ~ ha un
wasn't hurt bit, but he lay on the pave
ment just long enough to give the police
men and other folks two or three blocks
down the street the impression that he
had been killed That's when the trolley
cars were pressed into police service.
Although going at full speed, the cars
were no match for the automobile, but at
Vesey street there was blockade OF wagons
which Mr.. Dinsmore didn't see fit to buck
through. He also realized then. for the
first time, that the cops were after him,
40 he graciously ran over to the curb on
the east side Of Broadway and waited there
for them
you've killed a man." was the first
thing they said TO him.
Which one il Vanderbilt" asked a
young man, stepping up on the hub OF
one Of the automobiles wheels. And
the rest Of the question-asking crowd on
both sides Of the machine, before 1t and
btfiI1 llt was bO uctSr tldl JuSt q suknt
touch on the lever would have resulted
in a great juggernaut exhibition. just
then the man supposed to have been killed
pushed his way through to where the police
men were. He said that he was Hamilton
II. Day OF SIS st. Marks avenue, Brooklyn.
The police seemed disappointed to see
him alive and well. They changed the
curbstone charge Of homicide to reckless
driving and invited the automobile party
TO ride around to the Church street station.
Mr.. Dinsmore asked where that was.
Corner of Liberty" said the cop.
@Liberte, Liberte" exclaimed Alexander
Velgret, the chauffeur. who hasn't been
here from Paris long enough to understand
English and he started of up Broadway
again. But Mr.. Dinsmore restrained him
and gave the necessary directions for
getting TO the police station. Velgret was
the only one made prisoner. The police
rubbed 1t in by searching him for weapons
and poison.
and to avoid scene Mr. Dinsmore had
TO explain In French that the searching
was merely a formality. The chauffeur
was locked up for a while and then the
sergeant consented to accept his employer
az bondsman.
Mr. Dinsmore is a member Of the Auto
mobile Club Of America Of the French
Automobile Club, Of the Metropolitan,
the Union and half a dozen more organiza-
tions. The friends with him Yesterday
were Proctor Smith and Gordon Willis.
They were going home from the country
club on Staten Island when stopped by
the police,