The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-09
SPEEDING AUTO KILLS 4 NAN.
SIMILAR RED CAR STOPPED AND
DRIVER ARRESTED.

Men and women In u vanish when Police
man Descsnds Upon t-OFtVsr Denlss
Running over ANY One-NIystery % 20
who Party Were-Hsld on speed Oharge.
William W. Powers, ~ years old, a a
cling salesman, Of lSS East Ninety-second
street, was killed just after midnight yes
terday morning at Lexington avenue and
Ninety-second street by a red touring
car In which there were said to be three
nien and two women. The mans body was
taken to the morgue and later identified
from cards found in the pockets by his
En~otherin-law, Mrs. lillian johnson, and
her daughter Of SOS East Ninety-fOurth
street.
The police Of the East ~Eighty-eighth
street station house arrested Martin McDon-
Ough, a motorman who was on q south
bound Lexington avenue electric car which
was at the corner when the police found
the body. MODonOugh said that he was
going south, and when about half a block
away he 20 the man standing on the Cross
ing as II waiting for a car. just then a big
rcd automobile dashed by the car going
south, and before the man could get out Of
the way the machine struck him and he
was knocked about ten feet, where McDon-
Oush found him in a dying condition. The
automobile did not stop, and 1t was going
at such a high rate Of speed that the motor
man could not see the number.
McDonough was taken to the East Eighty
eighth street station house, and as his story
OF the mans death was believed he was
paroled in the custody Of n Of the in
spectors of the road and told to be in the
Harlem court yesterday.
william koed, an automobile driver in
the employ Of Nicholas +. Brady Of 81 Wall
street, was arrested at Eignty-seventh
street and Third avenue by Policeman
S~hafburger for exceedin : t e speed limit.
S~hafburger said that he was standing near
Eghty-eighth street and Third avenue
when q big red automobile came thunder
ing down the avenue at Z mile a minute
dip, with koed and a party OF men and
women In the machine. ~Shafburger
watched them, and when near Eighty |
WE'VE S1ySnt IN stfest something went wrong
machine TO run into one of the elevated
pillars. The occupants jumped out, and
when they saw ShafburRer coming they
ran into one of the side streets. All the
rest got away, but the cop got koed He
was taken to the Fast Eighty-eighth street
station house and held.
McDonough, the motorman, was taken
To- examine the automobile, and he
said that 1t looked very much like the ma
chine, he saw pass his car and knock the
down, but he was not sure, az he only
q rear view OF it. Koed denied
that he had been on Lexington avenue
or that he had run anybody down.
He said he was out with a party Of
friends and hat they were returning from
a spin in The Bronx. He refused to tell
who was in the machine. Later when
he was arraigned before Magistrate Whit
man In the Harlem court hoed said the
man in the automobile with him
was Frederick Hubert, a barber employed
in the Prince George Hotel, tho had a
young woman with him. Shafburger said
hat he was sure there were at least four
others in the automobile. Koed was held
In $500 bail for Special Sessions. McDon-
the motorman, was discharged.