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

hold Brass Rubber He Until the Speed
Mania Prompted subtraction OF MIR.
Lyerm ores Car-Police succeed IN
Locking Up Companion Who Went Back
Patrick O'Hara, employed as brass
rubbsr in the garage of the Colvin Motor
Company, at 40 West Fifty-ninth street.
was left alone in the place between and
7:30 yesterday morning. The night ma ma ger
quit at o'clock and the day mana ger did
not show up on time. In the inter val
O'Hara decided to quit brass rubbing and
take spin.
The machine he selected was "a horse
power Fiat, which was the property Of
John l.. Lvermore. broker, living ut the
Hotel Beleolaire. 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 reaking down at l3sth street and
Morris avenue, where 1t was recovered from
the bushes into which it had been pushed.
in the afternoon. O'Hara disappeared.
James Mcdonald, 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 CARA &c.
he said that he went into the garage in the
morning in search Of a 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 a
third man, for whom O'Hara stopped.
Mcdonald says that O'Hara's ideas of
1rt vim do ba 81, ,t>
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 it 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, as he says. walked away
from the two others. They threatened him
with violence II 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
seventh street station. 1t was an hour
later when Mcdonald returned and sup
piled a clue. The traffic squad was in
formed of the theft and sleuths were put on
the case. One Of them started for The Bronx
in a fast automobile.
Mr.. Livermore is broker and was busy
until after o'clock in the afternoon. Then
he called at the garage.
Sure, boss, said negro caretaker, I'D
a rather any other machine had been taken
than yours. ! jest can't figure 1t nohow
7 copft r,,,lfir1yy at,ht ct or i,.iIo II thia
child can't
There is nothing to multiply" retorted
Mr.. Livermore, but it's an easy. PROPOSE
tion to subtract. One automobile minus
one automobile leaves no automobile.
Mr. Iivermore said the machine was
bought last fall and was worth $4,000. The
stock number of the machine was rs.
The New. York number he did not recall.
Fairly In the afternoon man called up
a garage in Forty-ffth street. where Mr.
mobile.
say" said he, "Ive heen Winding
machine up here for hours while men
went away to get a machinist to fix It.
you'd better come and get it, as I'm going
to Quit"
That garage 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
to stay by it 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, Raymae Gooding, II years
old. q clerk, of 10 West Fifty-frst street
and William Meagan. is, an elevator boy,
Of 4l9 West Fiftythird street He had
heard them talking about the affair in a
pooroom 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 Fiftyfourth
street court in the afternoon and held.