The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-29
MISS BREBSE HELD UP BY COP.
SICK MOTHER NO EXCUSE FOR
RUNNING AUTO TOO FAST.
Girl Had Speeded From Tuxedo 20 city tn
Response to Alarming Telephone Mes
sase-said She Was within Legal
Limit, but Had 10 Give bail fer Driver.

Miss Eloise Breese, travelling down
Fifth avenue yesterday afternoon in an auto
mobile. was held up by Bicycle Policeman
Goldman, who said she was exceeding
the speed limit. She tearfully explained
that she was hurrying TO the bedside OF
her mother, who, she feared, was dying,
and she begged permission to go on to
IS East Twenty-second street, where her
mother lay. She also declared that. ac-
cordng to her speedometer, she was not
going too fast. The policeman was OBJ
durate, and she was compelled to 60 first
to the East lO4th street police station and
then to the Harlem court. When she had
given $500 bail for her driver. Paul Miller,
she was allowed to resume her journey to
her mothers side.
Miss Breese, who Is prominent In the
Tuxedo colony, is the sister OF James l..
Breese. Her mother is the widow OF j.
Salisbury Breese. She was Miss Augusta
f. Lawrence and is a woman Of advanced
years.
Miss Breese was at Tuxedo yesterday
morning when a telephone message con-
veyed to her the news of her mothers
serious condition. 1t was impossible for
her to make any time to the city by any
train she could catch, so she started for
the city in her touring car. Rapid time
was made to the Fort Lee ferry and the
automobile had reached 119th street. this
city, when Goldman's eye fell on it. He
said in court that it was going like the
wind, but he managed to overtake it at
10th street, where Miller stopp cd at his
order.
In the 104th street static Miss Breese
expressed great indignation at the hold
UP. She told Sergt. Lynch that the police
man might better have something else to
do than to gu after persons who were not
violating the law
Il am on the way to my sick m other,
said she, 4and while am anxious to get
to her bedside as quickly as possible. /
know we were not going more than ten
miles an hour. 1 know something about
the speed OF automobiles myself. I sup
pose the officer was bound to arrest some
body, and we happen to be the ones to
suffer. think it Is an outrage
The sergeant said that there was nothing
left for him but to take the policeman's
word and hold the driver. All hands then
got into the automobile and went to the
Harlem court, where Magistrate Crane was
sitting.
Miss Brseee again expressed her mind
freely regarding what she thought was an
outrage in arresting her driver. She told
the Magistrate that she was on her way
to see her mother, who might possibly be
dying She had, however. been on the
road eight hours and therefore could not
have exceeded the legal rate OF speed
She thought 1t was q shame to cause her q
long delay.
Magistrate Crane said that in his mind
there was no doubt that the speed limit
had been exceeded under such circum-
stances, and he was compelled to hold her
driver In $500 for trial Miss Breese fur
nished bail by pledging stable at is East
Twenty-second street which she said she
owned. She and her driver then climbed
into their automobile and left for down.
town.
Miss Breese Is credited with being worth
million in her own right. She Is an ardent
devotee OF outdoor sports. Besides her
touring car, she owns yacht and many
fine horses. Some months ago her auto
mobile, in which she was riding, ran over
and killed Joseph Muntz, a young man,
near Tuxedo Park. Since that time Miss
Breese has been an earnest advocate OF
ordinances to limit the speed of automobiles.
A few weeks after the accident an anti
speed law was passed in Tuxedo.
Miss Breeses mother moved from Tuxedo
into her New York home last month. A
few days later she grew i'll. Her ailment
took turn for the worse during Tuesday
night, and her daughter was summoned
to her side. Last evening, however, in
quirers at her house were told that her
condition was improved.
Miss Breese refused to be seen or to talk
about her raalice exnerience last evening.