The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-09
PINCH WAGNER FOR SPEED.
RACE WINNER SORE At. ARREST
or HTS AUTO DRIVER.

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Experts C~sntradiUted Cop and Prisoner
Waa Let G0-PollOo ANITA T~ernRSnoloSy
Explained Party o me way 70 Drive
with MIR. Vanderbilt when . stepped.
Louis Wagner, the winner Of the Wander.
bilt cup In Saturdays automobile race,
permitted his chauffeur yesterday after
noon to run a touring oar at such speed
that Bicycle Policeman KerrtRan gave
chase from Broadway and Ftfty-sixth
street. The car whizzed by him bound
south.
Dozens OF vehicles c0nEestsd the strest
whom KerriEan started SITTER tho party.
At Fifty-third street, while going under
the elevated structure, he narrowly avoided
ooliding with a DIRE team. which was rScing
EAST. The occupants Of the car he says,
noticed him coming and laughed at his
efforts. waving tiny silk American and
sprint the bike cop succeeded In rounding
UP the party in front Of b Hotel Aston.
How do you dare arrest me when I'm
with the great WaRner2' the chauffeur,
who CAV hts name as Castor Samuei,
is alleged to have cried. you Americans
are not half civilized. Didn't we beat you
In the CUP racer"
Wagner didn't enter INTO the discussion.
The operator vas the only cne rlseed nde
arrest. Wagner n the other occupants
accompanied the policeman to the West
Side police court. Kerrigan declared TO
Magistrate Steinert that the machine was
going thirty miles an hour. Wagner,
who does not speak English. through an
@ietesprster swore It vas going only twelve ES:
Magistrate stated there was a preponder-
moe Of evidence in favor Of the French
man and discharged the prisoner.
Bachman said at the time Of the arrest
they were on their way to Martins where
bilt. He said that Wagner expressed him
self a. being greatly disappointed that an
American policeman should arrest his
chauffeur after he had won such a victory:
-Wagner's case had hardly been disposed
OF when BICYCLE Policeman Jack Haggerty
appeared in court. leading a prisoner.
SYour Honor. this is another shadow
hustler. They're coming in hooke up my
way and q few ought to bottled. he said.
Pardon me-" said Magistrate Steinert
looking a trife mystiaed' Il don't seem
Speed merchant, Judge. Speed mer-
chant-get that7- said Haggerty, grinning.
"A bubble bug, eh?' echoed the Magis-
trate.
lO5th street and Central Park West l felt
a cool breeze and a little dust In my face.
and something like a cumming bird fitted
by. In front Of me it popped. Birds
don't do that; q thinking that Il might be
a gasoene buggy in haste, l followed. Half
a mile or so up the pike / found the
Here he is and his name is James Walsh.
OF SIS West Fifty-iourth street. l don't
know how fast he was travelling, but l
that l didn't even get a chance to
glance at my wrist stopwatch-which is
going some"
-. Walsh owned up to speeding and was held
In 500 bail for trial.
William Bonand OF p Paterson street,
Jersey City Heights, was arrested in Central
Park yesterday afternoon OF a charge OF
exceeding the automobile speed limit.
He Is driver for Felix NJ. Warburg Of IL
East Seventy-second street, who ia a SON
in-law Of Jacob H. Schif and a partner in
Kuhn, Loeb 4 Co. He was out in Mr..
Warburg's IS horsepower car when BIZ !
cycle Policeman Steinert called to him on
the East Drive near Sixty-ninth street
TO stop. as he was going too fast. Steinert
says that he did not obey his order and
that he had to pursue him to Sixty-sixth
street to put him under arrest.
In the Yorkville police court Bornand said
that the machine was out OF order and that !
he stopped as soon as he could. Magistrate
Breen held him in 500 bail for trial.