New-York tribune., 1905-08-14
AUTO" KILLS AND FLEES.
SHIELDS PARTY.
LeaUing Victim an Street, Reckless
Riders Speed On.

Polesows Pokorski, who for number of
years had worked for Frank Kramer a gar
dener at Jerome-ave and 177th-st was run
down and instantly killed by automobile
opposite his employers place shortly after 1
o'clock yesterday morning. his body being
hurled from the middle of the street TO the
curb. The automobile, which was a touring car
containing five men, did not stop after striking
Pokorski. but continued rapidly down Jerome
and disappeared round corner None OF
the witnesses to the tragedy succeeded in get
ting the number of the machine.
Paul Ritter who lives in the apartment house
at No. 1886 Jerome-ave.. few yards below
where the gardener was struck. was the nearest
witness Ritter, who was sitting on the steps
of the apartment house says that PokorsN was
crossing the avenue and when in the middle or
the thorougbfare the automobile. which he de-
scribes as maroon and with only one light burn
ing bore down on him at the rate of thirty miles
an hour There was a crash and a sound as OF
the automobiles brake being set hard, then the
brake was released and the car dashed by.
Running to the spot Ritter found Pokorski's s
body lying against the curb. the blood gushing
from nose. mouth an6 ears. At that moment
southbound Jerome-ave. trolley came up and
stopped the passengers and crew having seen
the accident. One of the passengers ran back
to Jerome and Burnside aves. and got Patrol
man E. J. Lake of the Hghbridge station, who
called an ambulance from Fordham Hospital.
DR. Heinze who came with the ambulance,
found that Pokorski's skull had been crushed in.
his right arm broken and nearly every rib
fractured The body identified by Ritter.
According TO the crew and passengers of the
trolley car which was following close behind
the automobile that struck the gardener, there
riY7o ODfa n in
ing five men, and two runabouts each with two
men. The automobiles seemed to be racing
when they passed the trolley Lake said
that he noticed the automobiles when they
passed him at Burnside and jerome aves., and
they were not exceeding the legal speed limit at
that time. He added that. although it was his
custom to take the numbers of all automobiles
that passed him at that hour, he did not do so
in this instance as when they went by he was
busy directing a man who had asked him about
certain streets
1t is thought that the automobilists. after
realizing that they had run down and perhaps
fatally hurt a man. made their way into the city
by some rounda bout route. Roundsman Demp
sey and Patrolman Ryan. of the Highbrdge sta
tion standing al the entrance to Macomb's
Dam Bridge 166th-st. and Jerome-ave. at the
time the accident occurred, and for fifteen
minutes after they say that no automobile
passed their way. Detectives Buesser and
Schuing, of The Bronx detective bureau. were
detailed TO learn who the occupants of the auto
mobile were, and spent yesterday in searching
the various garages in Manhattan. The only
clew they have TO work on, however is the color
Of the machine. and there is some question as TO
that. several of the persons in the trolley car de-
clarinS that 1t dark green.
PokOrsks body was removed to the High
bridge station, and Coroner Berry held an in
quest yesterday afternoon. The inquest was
private, and after il over Coroner Berry
said that he knew who the men in the machine
hat NIL ord theI
would be arrested How he got his information
he did not