New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-08
" AUTO" KILLS A WOMAN
CHASE IN P4RK-AVE.
Nan CLings to Back of Vehicle and
Causes Arrest.

In a whir OF vehicles at Eighty -sxth-st
and Park-ave- yesterday morning an automo-
bile knocked down Mrs. Catherine Conway six
ty years old, OF No. 81 East Eighty-seventh-s
Her skull fractured. and she died in the
afternoon. The driver George c. Gordon tried
to escape. but man Jumped the back Of the
vehicle. and. on spying two policemen after rid
ing some distance. had Gordon arrested
According to tie ma gers OF the YorkviiIe
garage, at Third-ave. and Eighty-sixth-st
where the automobile procured. it was said
that Gordon obtained the vehicle by misrepre-
senta;ion. 1t was said there that the automobile
is owned by man whose name they refusd to
olvulge, a man of some prominence. Gordon.
according TO the managers said he was the
driver for this man. and that re had been sent
to take the automobile TO him II is sad that
he is a driver out OF work.
Many people We're walking toward Central
Park and many carriages and automobiles were
in Park-ave. near Eighty-rixth-st.. all morn
ing. II was I'm this maze that Mrs. Conway was
caught Gordon bound southwardly in
Perk-ave.. and was running the machine through
n maze of vehicles at Eighty-sixth-st.. when
Mrs. Conway trying to cross the ave-
nue. She picked her way carefully, and seemed
to be cut of danger. when the automobile
seen running right at her. Some one screamed
and another person yelled. but before the pc
destrians ana riders realized it, the woIran was
lying mangled on the pavement. The automobile
shot over her. side Of it lifting as her body
was struck. The noise of the vehicle falling
the wheels again as they left the body could
be heard plainly.
Women shrieked in horror. men yelled, and
all traffic stopped. Policemen ran up and
ambulance was sent for. The Presbyterian Hos
pital sent one. with Dr. Hayes in charge.
The woman found to be internally in
jured, 10 have a broken skull and bruises OF
all parts OF the body. Her condition was pre-
carious. and the doctor wanted the woman taken
10 the hospital Immediately. pronouncing her
condition critical But Miss Conway. the wo-
mans daughter, who with her. refused 10
let her mother he taken to the hospital and
DR.. Hayes took the injured woman to her home.
There she fingered until about o'clock when
she died.
Gordon, according 10 witnesses. tried TO es-
cape he saw what he had done His
automobile was not going fast when the acci
dent happened. but he kept and was some
rods away when Il was realized that he was
escaping
Several raced after him. one young man with
sprinting and leaping ability was close enough
to take a running jump and land on the back
OF the machine
Gordon did not know II. He kept on. and
evidently thought he wns getting away. The
other man on the machine did not shout 70
him TO stop. but kept the lookout for l'o.ioe-
men.
II was half n mile down Pa-k-Rve. that the
man holding on behind the automobile and be-
ing joted up and down and almost knocked OF
times espied two policemen ahead. He waved
a hand to them. They took In the situation and
ran out into the avenue. Gordon had to STOP
and when the policemen were told Of the acci-
dent they arrested Gordon He was handed over
TO Policeman Geiger. - the East Eighty-eighth-
St station who had been running down the ave-
after Gordon. He was held without bnil
after Mrs. Conway's death. He lives at No. 2lo
East Eighty-seventh-st, and is twenty-one
years old.
Mrs Conway was a widow, and lived with
her two daughters.
Miss Alice Conway one of Mrs. Conway's
daughters who suffered from shock after the
accident said last night that she intended push
ing the case TO the end. According TO the police
Of the East Eighty-sixth-st. station. Gordon
said the automobile got out OF his control He
said he had been out of work, but had obtained
a place with the Yorkville Automobile COM
pany, which let him have the automobile