The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-06
ABDUCTED AUTO GETS BALKY.
EARLY SPIN OF PATRICK OHARA
ENDS NEAR HARLEM RIVER.

Bold Brass Rubber lie Until the Speed
Mania Prompted Subtraction OF MIR.
lLycrnOre's Car Police Succeed in
Locking Up Companion VINO Went Back
Patrick O'Hara, employed as brass
rubber in the garage Of the Colvin Motor
Company at 40 West Fifty-ninth street,
was left alone in the place between 7 and
1880 yesterday morning. The light mana ger
quit at o'clock and the day mana ger did
not show up on time. In the interval
O'Hara decided to quit brass rubbing and
Ia ke a spin.
The machine he selected was "a horse
power Fiat, which was the property Of
John l.. Livermore, broker, living at the
Hotel Belleclaire. Just what he intended
to do with the machine isn't known, but
whatever his designs were they were APP
parently frustrated by the machine def
nitely breaking down at 138th street and
Morris avenue. where it was recovered from
the bushes into which 1t had been pushed,
in the afternoon. O'Hara disappeared.
James Mcdonald, a chauffeur. who lives
at l0sth street and the North River, went
along with O'Hara at the latter's invitation.
When the machine broke down he went
back and reported the case at the garage.
He said that he went into the garage in the
morning in search Of friend. and O'Hara,
saying that he was going for spin, asked
help to start the machine. Mcdonald said
he consented to join in the spin. A block
away from the garage they picked up
third man, for whom O'Hara stopped.
Mcdonald says that O'Hara's ideas OF
driving were crude. but the party went up
Amsterdam avenue without mishap and
thence over to East 13Oth street and the
Harlem River On the bridge across the
river the motor stopped and il took a few
minutes to fix it. Mcdonald says he then
asked where O'Hara intended TO go.
Are you going up the North Shore road?'
he said, and he alleges O'Hara replied that
he had copied the machine and was going
to run away with it.
Then Mcdonald, "a he says. walked away
from the two others. They threatened HIM
with violence if he didn't join them, but
he ran, and the others made no effort to
pursue him. He went back to the garage.
Meanwhile Mr.. Iivermore's driver, Al
bert Stillwagon, had gone to the garage
and found the car missing. He reported
the case to the police of the West Forty
later when Mcdonald returned and sup
formed Of the theft and sleuths were put on
the case. One of them started for The Bronx
in fast automobile.
Mr.. IIivermore is a broker and was busy
until after o'clock in the afternoon. Then
he called at the garage.
"Sure, boss. said "A negro caretaker. I'D
a rather any other machine had been taken
than yours. ] jest can't figure it nohow.
cant multiply subtract or divide it, this
child can't"
Mr.. Livermore, but it's an easy PROPOSE
ton to subtract. One automobile minus
one automobile leaves no automobile"
Mr. Iivermore said the machine was
bought last fa and was worth $4,000. The
stock number OF the machine was rs.
The New York number he did not recall
Early in the afternoon man called up
a garage in Forty-ifth street. where Mr.
Livermore had previously kept his auto
mobile
machine up here for hours while a man
went away to get machinist to fix II.
He hasn't come back. ana II you want it
to quit"
That garag &c telephoned the Colvin COM
pany and man was sent to The Bronx.
He found the machine and a tired colored
man sitting in it. He said that all he knew
about II was that man had asked him
to stay by 1t until he came back The
machine was taken down to the CARA e.
None Of the police who had been told to
look for it apparently saw it on its way
home. They are still looking for O'Hara
In the afternoon Driver Stillwagon
swore out warrants for the arrest Of two
young men, Raymale Gooding II years
old clerk Of 10 West Fifty-frst street.
and William Meagan Is. an elevator boy,
of 40 West Fifty-third street He had
heard the:, talking about the affair in
poolroom near the garage. Gooding, he
said, had declared that he rode in the car
as far as Seventy second street. Mcdonald
was arraigned in the West Fifty-fourth
street court in the afternoon and held.