New-York tribune., 1906-04-02
AUTO KILLS OLD WOMAN,
Seriously Injuries Her Sister in Nez1
Rochelle, and Speeds On.

Two women were run down by a speeding sus
tomObe in New Rochelle yesterday and in I
jured seriously that one of them died a few
hours later in the New Rochelle Hospital and
the other is not expected TO recover. After thu
accident. the automobile. which contained two
we'll dressed women and two men. ran ON at even
greater speed. the occupants not even stopping
TO see whether the women were injured. The
car was chased by mob OF men and boys and
If it had stopped those in ii might have Jared
badly
The dead woman Miss Albina STEM
enty-three years old. Of Louisville Ky The In
jured woman is her sister. Mrs. Betty Kuchter.
who is the mother OF President Charles W
Kuchter Of the New Rochelle Board OF Alder
men. and Of Police Commissioner Henry Kuch-
ter She had just passed her SEVENTEEN birth
day, and her sister went to New Rocheue tn
help celebrate the occasion.
Witnesses of the accident say that the automo-
bile bore the license number IN Y No. 249S4"
Last night the police of New Rochelle and other
towns in Westchester County and IN this city
were on the lookout for the machine
The Automobile Register gives No 24ss4 as
the property Of +. C. Rodgers. jr.. contractor.
who lives at No. 10 St, Nicholas Place.
At the Rodgers home No 10 St Nicholas
Place. Mrs Rodgers denied that their machine
had been out during the day. We have had tine
machine about two months she said. A%sfnd
far as I know it not out to-day. When
shown the number &c y. Y 249S4." she re-
marked that might be the number
Mrs Kuchter and her sister were going from
the service at the German Lutheran Church
when they were run down, The accident Oc-
Cured beneath the New York & New Haven
Railroad branch line bridge in Main street. AZ
this point there is no sidewalk and the women
were obliged to walk in the roadway Mrs.
Kuchter received a compound fracture at the
base Of the skull and her sister had COM
pound fracture of the shoulder and skull. Tho
doctors amputated her arm. but she died a little
later without regaining consciousness. Coroner
Van Patten visited the hospital to get the ante
mOrtem statements ofSfhe women. but found
both unconscious. -
Miss Sadie Scott. who witnessed the accident.
said the automobile going at the rate OF
about thirty miles an hour and that there wers
a man and a woman on the front seat. The ma
chine struck the women under the bridge and
threw them in the air. II then Knocked over u
wagon belonging to dairy company. The ma
chine was heading for Mount Vernon but after
the women were struck the driver swung
around and headed through New Rochelle. It ia
supposed it turned through side street TO the
Shore Road and continued the journey TO this
city by that route
The accident caused intense Indignation iz
New Rochelle. and all speed viOiatOrs were ar
rested IN the afternoon Fourteen automobiIists
were taken. and ten OF them paid fines OF SD
each. The police marked or space or an eighth
Of a mile in Main street and then timed the ma
chimes. Arthur Hammerstein, Of New York.
a theatrical manager. was charged with running
a trial Van Allen Soule willingly paid ms
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