The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-02
TWO AGED WOMEN RUN DOWN.
ONE KILLED, THE OTHER DYING
THE AUTO SPED on.
The Dying Woman Is the Mother OF Carl T.
kuchler, the President OF New Ho-
chelle's hoard OF Aldermen, and the
Dead woman Was Her sister Miss stein.

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New ROCHELLE, y. Y, April IA red
automobile containing two stylishly dressed
women and two men, and believed to belong
to a New Yorker, while running rapidly In
Main street, New Rochelle, to-day, knocked
down and ran over two omen One OF
them is dead and the other is dying in the
New Rochelle hospital.
After the accident the touring car sped
on at an increased speed, without the occu-
pants stopping to see how badly the women
were injured. They did not even look
back, it is said, to see what became OF them.
The car was chased by a crowd OF men and
boys, but was soon out OF sight.
The injured women were Mrs. Betty
Kuchler, the mother Of the President OF
the Board OF Aldermen, Carl !, Kuchler,
and Of Police Commissioner Henry kuchler,
and her sister, Miss Albina Stein. Mrs.
Kuchler had just celebrated her seventeen
birthday anniversary, n her sister, Miss
Stein. who is 70 years old and lives in Louis
vile, by. had come to New Rochelle TO
help her sister celebrate the occasion.
Witnesses Of the accident say that the
automobile bore New York license No.
249s4 Tonight the police of New Rochelle
and other towns in Westminster county and
in New York are on the lookout for it, and
it is said that the Automobile Club OF New
York will offer a large reward for the ar
rest of the person or persons responsible
for the affair,
Mn. kuchler and her sister were return
ing this morning from the services at the
German Lutheran Church when they were
run down. The affair occurred beneath
the New York and New Haven railroad
branch line on Main street. At this point
there is no sidewalk and the women were
obliged to walk in the roadway.
Mrs. Kuchler received a compound tract
ure at the base of the skull and her sister
had a compound fracture Of the shoulder
and skull. 1t was found necessary to am
putate the arm of Miss Stein. She died at
9 O'Clock without regaining consciousness.
Coroner Van Patton visited the New
Rochelle Hospital tonight to get the ante
norton statement of the women, but found
that they were both unconscious.
Miss Sadie Scott, who witnessed the ao-
cident, said the automobile was going at
about thirty miles an hour and that there
were a man and a woman on the front seat.
The machine struck the women under the
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knocked over a wa gon belonging to a dairy
company.
1t was heading for Mount Vernon, but
| after the women were struck the driver
swung around and headed toward New
Rochelle. 1t is supposed he escaped through
a side street to the shore road and con-
tinued the journey to New York by this
route.
The affair caused intense indignation in
New Rochelle a~ndicaused a raid to be made
this afternoon on all speed violators. Four
teen a~utomobilists were arrested and ten
Of tn EN- paid fines of SIS each.
THE RODGERS NOT TAKEN " BY
N OF THE FAMILY.
Because of the reported number OF the
machine that ran away-numbers. how
| ever, are sometimes shifted in defiance Of
the law-the reporters called at the residence
of John c. Rodgers, a well known Harlem
contractor OF 10 st. Nicholas place.
Il don't remember the number of our
machine" Mrs. Rodgers said, but / am
positive that none of the family had the
machine out. We sent it down to the
Thomas garage in Seventh avenue a few
days ago to be repaired and | was not aware
that it was in running order yet, Further
than what l have said l know absolutely
nothing about the matter
The man in charge of the Thomas garage
at 73l Seventh avenue said that he was
a new man and knew nothing about the
Rodgers car. The Rodgers machine is a
Thomas ma chine,