New-York tribune., 1905-01-17
HURT IN MAD AUTO CHASE
Il ROUNDSMAN STUNNED.
Machines Speed Forty Miles-Cab
Horse Hit-DriUer Fights arrest.

Broadway and other thoroughfares we're
cleared for some distances last night for what
number of bicycle policemen said was the wild
est automobile chase they had ever known Be
fore the chauffeur who caused the trouble was
arrested Roundsman Casey of Headquarters
was made unconscious a the Circle the auto
striking him: a cab horse was overturned, and
two other bicycle policemen took UP the pursuit
to be lost at Fifth-ave. and Forty-seventh-st
The machine was stored in the garage at No l
West Thirty-fourth-st. opposite the Waldorf
Astoria. and Casey and Patrolman Kerrigan had
to use their best efforts to overpower the chauf-
feur I'm a room of the garage before they could
take him to the station
The chauffeur said he was Maurice Frederick
Macmillan Brunn, of No. 272 West Thirty
eighth-st, He was in the employ. he declared of
r. E Jarrige, treasurer of an automobile COM
pany at No l West Thirty-fourth- Mr.. Jar
rige lives at Eighth-ave and Fifty-drst-st He
was waiting for the chauffeur to take him to the
Automobile Show while the chase was on. He
went to the station later but refused to give bail
for hts chauffeur when he learned that charge
of assault had been made
Casey has rowing eersHsission 10 look after
the enforcement OF the speed ordinance He
says he sighted Brunn at Forty-third- ST. and
Broadway going uptown at a twenty-fve-n1fle
clip. He shouted for the chauffeur to slow up.
but declares that Rrunn gave the lever few
more notches and drew away
Casey says the speed of the automobile in
creased until it was moving at forty miles an
hour at Fifty-irst-st. Casey rides an auto
cycle geared TO speed of ffty-two miles an
hour. He shouted for a clear road at Fifty
frst-st. Brunn turned westward. II the pur-
suit through to Ninth-ave. Casey gained. At
Ffty-seventh- Brunn turned east again and
swept over TO Eighth-ave-. and then up that
moving. he says. at the top speed of his
machine
Brunn. going around the Columbus statue.
slaokened speed Intentionally Casey says so
that the roundsmar would bump into him
That is what happened.
Casey crashed into the rear OF the machine
The force of the collision threw him over the
handle bars against the back of the machine.
He landed in the roadway unconscious.
Then Brunn whrled around the north side
of the statue and sped down Broadway At
Fifty-eishth-st. Bicycle Patrolmen Kerrigan
and Geiderman sighted the machine and called
to the chauffeur to stop. He paid attention
to them They gave chase.
At Ffty-third-st. and Broadway the machine
struck a horse attached to a cab going west.
The blow such that the horse was rolled
the left of the automobile. The latter
did not sverve from: it's course. The two hi
cycle policemen who did not have motor cycles
kept They blew their whistles and shouted
for every one TO let them have a clear road.
Their warning was obeyed
At Forty-seventh-st. the machine went west
into Fifth-ave. The policemen were left hope
lessly behind.
At Thirty -fourth-st Patrolmen KerriEan and
Geiderman were told that the machine had gone
to the garage at No. | West Thirty -fourth-st.
They say they recognized machine the
floor the one they after They asked
for the chauffeur. just then Casey, who had
been revived by ambulance surgeon, came
into the garage. He too, had traced the
chine downtown. His autO-cycle had not been
injured.
Casey went to the second floor and called for
the chauffeur, whose name had been learned
below. Brunn. Casey says. came to the door,
and. when he the uniform Of the policeman,
vauted the banis9er, jumping to the floor
below He landed almost ON Nerrigan's back
Kerrigan grappled with him, and in a few Sec
onds Casey also was in the struggle. Brunn
the policemen say, fought hard. They say he
seemed crazed. After few minutes sharp
fight the policemen threw him to the floor and
him.