New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-18
LEFT DYING, SAY POLICE.
ACCUSE AUTOMOBILISTS.
Man Found Pinned IN Blanket, 4p-
parentLy after a Collision.

With conclusion of the brain. a possible fract-
ure of the skull and other injuries, Jacob Glenn
ons. sixty-f1ve years DID, a farmer. of Sawmill
Lane. East Chester. left pinned in a blanket
and lying alongside Pelham Parkway between
the Williamsbridge and White Plains roads be-
lore daylight yesterday morning. Inhuman
automobilists left MIN dying, the police and Cor
oner O'Gorman declared. Near where .Clemons
was found were signs showing that large auto
mobile had struck wagon, and wagon tracks
led from these marks in the road to tree where
Clemons's horse was tied. The wagon was a
partial wreck
A trapper found CIemons The man was
wrapped in blanket that had been pinned with
safety pins. His eyes were half opened and his
head showed scalp wound about three inches
long He had bed considerably. Valentine. the
trapper tried to rouse Clcmons. but without
success.
Then bakers wagon came along. and in il
the injured man was taken home Valentine
knowing who he
Valentine and the bakers man found in the
road the broad tracks made by an automobile,
The tracks swerved with a sudden turn TO the
right and northwest. indicating that the ma
chine going at high speed and in a direc-
tiOn away from Manhattan when it ran into
wagon. presumably Clemons's. The safety pins
held the blanket so securely that the police feel
y
Clemons's physician, Dr. John f. Verdep. of
Ferris Place, West Chester. said the man had
concussion of the brain It possible. the
physician said. that the skull had been fract-
ured. His condition was critical
II not until 4:30 p. m. yesterday that
Captain Gehegan. of the Wakefield station
heard Of the case. He at once assigned detec-
tives to the case. They told Captain Burfeind of
the West Chester station. He also assigned two
def and
vestigatng it himself. 1t being possible that
Clemons would die. captain Burfeind sent word
to Coroner OGorman.
From the injured mans wife it learned
that every morning about 2:3O he leaves his
house with horse and agon for the city. His
mission has been to a restaurant in Harlem.
Occasionally he takes produce to sell, DR.. Cur
tin, the corOners physician, says Cemons was
injured about : $50 a. m. If this is correct
he must have lain neglected alongside the road
for at least three and a half hours before he was
found.
The four detectives later We're instructed TO
devote all their time in trying to ascertain the
identity of the occupants owner driver OF
the automobile In addition. all the policemen,
in uniform and the men in plain clothes attached
10 the West Chester ana Wakefield stations were
instructed. The police believe the automobia .
was occupied by party returning to a country
nome or hytneS IN the WeStcheSter region after
spending most of the night in Manhattan.
Later Clemons regaiEed consciousness for
about ten minutes. He being kept alive by
oxygen, I'd his statements dsjointed. He
told Coroner O'GOrmau and Dr. Curtain that his
wagon struck by yellow automobile, in
which We're four men and woman. He was
thrown into the road, and was not Immediately
UNCONSCIOUS though helpless The occupants of
the automobile he asserted. started on without
needing him, but stopped when about fifty yards
away and all five returned to where he was
lying The woman held his head in her lap and
wiped his face with her handkerchief.
ClemOnS said that they were preparing to
leave him he asked them rot to go. They said
they could not stop, but would send physician.
Clemons then became unconscious. He did not
know how long the automobile party remained
with him.
Coroner OGorman said late last night that
the chances were against his living beyond this
morning. He added that if ClemOns had had
medical attention within sn hour or so after he
was injured his recovery would have been al
most certain.
At midnight last night Coroner O'Gorman said
after his return from Clemonss home that he
had good idea who owned the automobile. He
had received Information from a person who
would be a reliable witness. Coroner O'Gorman
said he thought the woman who was in the ma
chine would call on him to-day and tell him
what she knew about the case. IF she does not
do So he said, he would compel her to.