New-York tribune., 1902-02-18
MANY FINED FOR SPEEDING
ALL SORTS OF AUTOMOBILISTS AR
RAIGNED FOR FAST RIDING.

The number Of prisoners in the West Side
police court yesterday was augmented by auto
mobilists whose rapid riding on sunday at
tracted the attention Of bicycle policemen. OF
those arraigned two were held for iniuring Pc
destrians These were Sylvanus Browning. OF
No l. West Eighth-st-- and Henry K. Mon
tagu of No. 80 West FIftieth-st-. employed by
the Electric Cab Company While maneuvring
a brougham at Thirty y-ninth-st- and Eighth
ave- in the evening they struck Matthew c.
Kerr. thirty-nine years old. Of No. 13t West
Sixty-third-st., an electrical engineer. and for
merly official of the Metropolitan street
Railway Company. Mr.. Kerr was thrown vio-
Ieatly to the pavement sustaining fracture OF
the skull He was taken 70 the Roosevelt Hos
pital and the operators CT the machine were
arrested by Policeman WatzgeIder. OF the West
Thirty y-seventh-st- station 1t is said that
Browning was instructing Montagu in the oper-
alton of the e,ectric cab and that the latter
was not novice. having been employed as an
automobile driver in Chicago He simply
being broken in to work in this city.
When the ease wes called in court Policeman
WatzgeIder told Magistrate Mayo that Mr., Kerr
vas not expected To live and he ordered that
the prisoners be held. Mr.. Robinson. who rep
resented the cab COMPANY asked that bail be
fixed He said the men We're experts. and. as
every cal was in use account Of the snow.
1T was entirely an accident h said 'The
injured man walked directly in front OF the
machine II was under perfect control and
going SLOWLY"
Al first Magistrate Mayo refused to permit thu
prisoners To he baiIed. but finally asked wnat
bail would he given.
Any amount" said the lawyer
Then the magistrate placed bail at 5000 each.
and the prisoners were released.
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being Of all kinds from leather gar5ed French
men to downtown business men. were all fined
Usually the conversation was about follows:
The Magistrate-You are charged With drfv-
ing your automobile neyOud the lawful limit OF
speed. What do YOU say?
The Prisoner was not going more than
eight or ten miles an hour
The Magistrate-The speed limit is eight miles
m hour, How fast we're they going. offieere
The Policeman followed him six blocks
He was going fourteen miles an hour
The Magistrate-This man is an expert on the
speed of vehicles; you are fined 81.
Two French walters were fined 81 each for
riding sixteen miles an hour on tandem BIZ
cycle.
Michael \ Stern. OF No. 500 Fifth-ave. and
Charles \. Lanier. OF No. 80 East Thirty
seventh-st-. were a-raiSned in the Morrisania
court charged with racing their automobiles in
Jerome-ave- They we're each fined s.; They
were arrested by Mounted Policemen Stursis
and Kinnison. of tho Highbridse station.
Magistrate Crane, Who was sitting in the Nor
risania court for Magistrate Mott who was
unable 10 come because OF the storm. Iectured
the young men. He said he had constantly 10
dodge automobiles himself and referred 10 the
tragedy OF last week. when young boy vas run
over by the White Ghost and killed He said
that he felt that it was necessary 10 punish
everyo body brought before him for such an Of
fence