New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-14
AUTOMOBILE KILLS HER.
AGED WOMAN AUTHOR.
Lumbcr Merchant Tried to 1UOid
1ccideHt-A Prisoner.

Just after alighting from Eighth-ave. car
at Central Park West and Eighty third-st. yes
terday Mrs. Emily Burkholder was run down
by automobile driven by Lewis p. Lasher
a lumber merchant at Eleventh-ave and Fifth
eth-st.. who lives at No. 212 Jane-st-. Weehaw-
ken, y. J. Her skull was fractured and she
taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where she
died.
Mr.. Lasher was locked up in the West Sixty
eighth-st. station. a charge of homicide being
made against him.
Mrs Burkholder lived at No. 243 West Thirty
ninth-st. She had just stepped from the car
and was standing in the roadway apparently
bewildcred because Of the number Of vehicles
moving north and south
Mr.. Lasher. in his automobile with his wife
and young doughter was going south. while
other automobile and man on horseback were
going north. Mrs. Burkhoder ran hurriedly
out Of the way Of these two but directly in the
path Of Mr. Lasher's machine. big double
seated touring He saw her danger and.
shouting to her. turned his steering wheel rap
idly. so that the vehicle swung crosswise, with
the forepart 10 the east Prompt as had been
his action. il was too late TO prevent tbe-rear
wheels from knocking The woman down.
Following Mr.. Lasher's automobfe was Bicycle
Policeman Mccormick. who was duty reEu-
lating traffic He 10 the woman's assistance.
She was unconscious. She was carried into an
apartment house at Eighty-third-st A physi-
clan gave her what attention he could, hut. find
ing her condition serious advised that she be
hurried TO a hospital. Mccormick then sent in a
call to Roosevelt Hospital
Mr. Iasher at the police station said ne had
been using automobiles for over four years and
had never before had an accident. He declared
that ne was not travelling at a high rate Of
4f ba of
borne out by Mccormick and other witnesses
There was a demonstration against Mr.. Lasher
by the crowd that quickly gathered when Mrs
Burkholder was knocked down It was said
that lately Central Park West had been made a
kind of speedway for automobiles. and that it
was lucky that more accidents had not occurred.
Some Of those I'm the crowd muttered threats
against Mr. Lasher. but there was no outbreak.
No. 243 West Thirty-ninth-st. is a boarding
house one Of the boarders there last night said
that Mrs BurkhoIder had lived there for about
five years. Her name. he said was Virginia
BurkhoId which name the Roosevelt Hospital
authorities also have He said that she used to
write short stories for magazines. and some
fifteen years ago ran a paper called The De-
fender She was a Southerner. and had rela-
tives living in Baltimore. She was nearly sew
enty years old. ne said.
Harden L. Crawford. Of No IL West Fifty
seventh-st n banker at No. - Broad-st, who
called az Roosevelt Hospital to see the woman.
said that he knew little about her He believed
she had some connection with Truth. but Of this
he was not sure. He understood that papers
had been found belonging to the dead woman
which showed she had sister. Anna Burk-
holder living nj No. 1s West Lombard-st., Bal
tirnore. Md. He said also that he understood
Mrs Margaret Bottome. the author and lecturer,
was acquainted with Mrs BurkhOlder.