The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-10
FLED AFTER AUTO ACCIDENT.
CAR THAT CAUSED MRS. CRAIG'S
DEATH GETS AWAY.

Police Sergeant. His wife and Three Chill
dren Upset In q Hired Car-Husband
I'm HOspital-YOung Woman the Good
Samaritan Who Takes Injured Home.
Police Sergeant Robert Craig of the West
Tooth street station had a day of yesterday.
For some time he had promised his wife,
Jane, and their three little children that he
would take them for an automobile ride
and yesterday he decided to fulfil the
promise.
A car was engaged for the day from the
Nordyke, Norman Il Co. garage in West
Thirty-eighth street and driven by Alex
ander Cummings lit wheeled up to the
sergeant's home at 8 West lO2d street. The
Craig family piled into the car and started
for The Bronx.
on Jerome avenu at 18lst street the
driver sent the auto north at a lively clip.
They hadn't gone very far when another
machine came up behind them. Cummings
let out a few notches 80 as to prevent the
other machine from passing them.
The two cars shot along within ten feet OF
each other, but at 172d street Cummings
found it necessary to turn to the left in order
to dodge a pedler's wagon. As he did
the driver of the machine following saw n
chance to forge ahead and putting on full
speed sent his car between Craig's and the
rodler's wagon.
The front wheels of the second machine
struck the real wheels Of the first, forcing
II TO the left and into a pole supporting the
trolley wires.
The car struck the pole with such force
4 at it tipped up. Mrs. Craig was thro wn
hea dforemost and crashed against the
iron pole. Craig was hurled out on the
other side of the car and lay for a time in
the roadway stunned. The three children
and the driver we're not thrown from the
machine but we're more or less bruised.
Mrs. Craig rolled over unconscious, with
blood streaming from several ugly wounds
on her head.
The accident happened almost dire city in
front Of Joseph Murphy's roadhouse. The
proprietor and several of his employees
ran out and carried the injured into the
place. Two policemen summoned ambu-
Iances from both the Lebanon and Ford
ham hospitals. The other automobile was
nv that time out of sight. According to
those who witnessed the accident it was a
big car with a green painted body and red
stripes along the sides.
The ambulance surgeon from Fordham
Hospital said that Mrs. Craig was in a most
serious condition and hurried with her to
The hospital. 1t was later found that she
had sustained a fra Of the base of the
skull, as we'll as a depression of the frontal
hone.
She died there last night at 1O:25 Craig
was with her at the time. He was so much
affected that he had to be put to bed in the
hospital.
The ambulance surgeon who answered
the call from the Lebanon Hospital dressed
the wounds and cuts that had been suf-
fered by Sergt. Craig and his children.
Howard, II years old; Lloyd, 5 years, and
Jeanette, 8 years Did.
A car that had come up sh after the
house. In it was a lone young woman
and her driver. The young woman got
out of the machine and assisted the surgeon
in dressing the wounds Of Craig's children.
Nhen all had been cared for they we're
bundled into her auto and driven to the
Fordham Hospital. where Craig made in
ouiries as to the condition Of his wife. The
children we're taken to their home in the
young woman's automobile.
Cummings, the driver of the wrecked
machine, was arrested by the police of the
fremont station. Capt. Dennis Brennan of
that station detailed a squad Of his detec-
tives to search for the machine that was
responsible for the accident. According
10 those who saw the accident it was oc-
Gu led by a driver and two women.