The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-16
RUN DOWN BY CHGS. W. MORSE
morn or MRS. MANCHINE'S LEGS
BROKEN M ms AUTO.

lie nd Ills Hest to Help Her After the
\ccldcnt-IIad Her Taken to a Hospital
and Nncrward Had Ills Own Physician
visit Her-Police Retlceut ~ F1rst.
Charles W. Morse, V o,-President OF the
Garfield National Bank and formerly presi-
dent Of the American Ice Company, driving
Nh, automobile along the Merrick road, at
jamaica, L. l., late Friday afternoon, ran
down and badly hurt Mrs. Margaret Man
chine vino lives In Highview avenue,
jamaica. Mrs. Manchine suffered a fraO-
ture Of the right arm, a fracture Of the
rght leg. a compound fracture Of the left
log and severe bruises, She Is 65 years old.
nm, she will recover, II was said last night
at Jamaica Hospital.
MIR. Manchine was crossing the road
sl,ut o'clock In the afternoon Two
wagon, were passing in opposite directions
and IN avoiding them she failed to see MIR
MR. automobile until It was close TO her.
Thou -ho got confused and stood still.
Mr. Morse cndeavorud to stop his machine,
Nm, l. could not get it under control quickly
enough TO prevent running the woman
down
Sine was knocked down with great force.
Mr. More stopped the machine with It's
front wheels resting on her body. He
,urnprd out with two friends he had with
him and the three lifted the wheels of
If Mr.. Manchine. Mr. Morse ran to a
nearby saloon and telephoned TO Jamaica
Ho.pItaI asking that an ambulance besent.
When the ambulance arrived Mrs. Man
llpn WAS conscious She did not think at
first that she was badly hurt and wanted
=, pp home The ambulance surgeon
ip-i-fed ON taking her 20 the hospital. Mr.
Morse accompanied her and gave instruc-
tIon- at the hospital that no expense be
INJURED woman. Then he went back 10
Manhattan as fast a. he could get there
and .aut Dr. Bull his own physician, to
m, hospital to attend Mrs. Manchine.
At his home. SS5 Fifth avenue MIR. Morse
sald Yesterday: The accident was abso-
htely unavoidable A party of men friends
we've with me on the way from New York
10 Far Rockaway when the accident oc-
CURED | don't think we were going much
faster than a horse would walk and was
running the machine myself.
L saw the woman crossing the street
end | didn't think there was a possibility
Of an accident. She was almost clear when
a vehicle came along from the opposite
direction and confused her. She turned
hack squarely in front Of the machine.
was able to stop il before the wheels
raised entirely over her.
Il told Dr. Bull TO take as much pains
with her as if she were my own mother.
cannot tell how much regret that IL hap
pened After the accident | went TO the
Jamaica police station and gave my card 20
The sergeant explaining how the accident
occurred and telling him 70 let me know
II ! should be wanted.
IuuI Idte last ugnt the Jamaica police
insisted that they knew nothing about the
accident that no report had been made
Of il and that neither Mr. Morse nor any
body giving his name had called at the
station house Police Captain Hickman,
who was racing a horse on the Hillside
avenue speedway yesterday afternoon,
was seen there When he was asked why
no record had been made Of the accident by
the police, be said. why this is the hrst
] have heard Of it
Finally. last night Sergt Carman said
tina, a report had been made and that a
detective had been assigned to investigate
the accident. He expressed the opinion
that no arrest would be made and that
everything would be all right. Capt.
Hickman Wa told what his sergeant said
and ,til maintained that the whole matter
was news 20 him.
Mrs Ward, superintendent OF Jamaica
Hospital said she didn't understand the
attitude the police we're taking. She said
Policeman Post was at the hospital at 9
O'Clock Friday evening and made a detailed
investigation, taking information from her.
Yesterday morning another policeman went
20 the hospital, she said, and inquired abo Il
Mn. Manchine's condition. More than that,
she said, Detective Tlman Of the precinct
was at the hospital at noon yesterday ask
ing how Mrs. ManChine was getting along
Sergt, Carman said eventually that he
had sent a report to Police Headquarters.
Joseph Gunther, a saloonkeeper az Smith
street and the Merrick DAD TO whose place
Mr.. Morse went 10 telephone the hospital
raid last night that he accompanied Morse
TO the police station and saw him talking
to the sergeant on the desk