The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-03
PIRATE MADE WILD RUN
CAR THAT RAN NAN Down or
WITHOUT OWNERS LEAVE.

VIZ. Robin who Owned a. Weust 10 E 0urt AMI
Asked for se,e ere Punishment % Man
VINO Took 10 From Garage N Fake eie-
phone Order-CharEe Grand Larceny.
Joseph q. Robin. president Of the Bank
OF Discount and the Washington Savings
Bank, lives at the Woodward Hotel, Broad
way and Fifty-ffth street, and owns two
Automobiles which he keeps In a garage
across the street from the hotel. He has
been driving q machine for five years and
says he has never had the hand Of a pre-
server Of the speed laws raised 10 warn
him. He's had bad luck with his drivers,
however. and only t1o months g had to
discharge one because he took one machine
out without permission and disputed the
right Of way with a street car, with dis
astrous results 10 the automobile.
Mr.. Robin had just seated himself at the
brea kfast table Yesterday morning and
opened a, newspaper when the first thing
he read was a thrilling story of a runaway
automobile in the upper Tenderloin on
Friday night. A mar was Knocked down
and had a big hole torn in his scalp. Then
the auto ran by the West Forty-seventh
street police station and defed the whole
local force to corral it. 1t was final ly ap-
pretended after a running fight OF two
blocks. The story said that the machine
belonged to Mr.. Robin, but as he had never
heard Of the man mentioned as the chaut-
feur, he forgot about his breakfast and
da shed across the street to the garage,
doing the hundred yards In ten seconds
fat.
How about this?" he demanded, exhibit
ing the story to the boss of the garage.
Didn't you send for your. machine last
night?0 responded the garage man.
Mr.. Robin eaid that he didn't, and then
they told him all about it. About 8 O'Clock
a voice called up the garage, aid that 1t was
Mr.. Robin Ia liking, and told the man at the
phone that he would send for one of his
cars in a few minutes. The garage man
knew that Mr.. Robin was in the habit OF
doing that, SO when a youth called for the
machine he got it without question.
The car, a big red one, began to be heard
from very soon. 1t wenttearing up Broad
way at such a speed that Solomon Conen
of 81 East Eigh ty-second street, who tried
to cross at Fifty seventh street, was knocked
down and had to be taken to Roosevelt
Hospital in an ambulance. The red devil
went merrily on, With the two men yelling
like Indians.
The West Forty-seventh street station
house had no sooner heard about the ac-
cident than additional rep orts about the
red streak of lightning began to come in
from all the outlying parts Of the precinct.
Capt. Zimmerman was just detailing Sergt.
Faulkner to go out and lasso the gasole ne
bronco and it's two riders when a loud chug-
chugging was heard approaching the station
house from Eighth avenue. Sergt. Faux
ner ran to the door and convinced himself
that the machine wat the one he wanted.
AS il flew past he shot out down the steps
In pursuit, He managed to grab the rear
Of the car and pull himself in before it
driver to stop.
The driver only opened her up a peg or
two more and Faulkner then began strug-
Cling with him, He got hold of the lever
machine, Then with a cooked revolver.
station house. The men were then locked
up. They gave their names as James
Mullen OF 40 West F~orty-seventh street
and John Burns Of 500 West Forty-third
street. Burns had been running the car.
When MIR. Robin learneI that the men
were to be %arraigned in the West Side court
yesterday morning he hurried there with
his chauffeur and two employees OF the
ara he tOlQ Magistrate CoTnell tndI
he had never seen either man before and
that he believed they intended to steal the
machine.
Il want them both punished to the limit
he said. This lie the most brazen piece Of
work ] ever heard Of. They should be made
examples, in order that other automobile
owners may not be victimized."
The Court said that there was no evidence
against Mullen by which he could be held
for grand larceny, but as Burns was recog-
nized by the garage employees as the man
who took out the machine. he was charged
with stealing an automobile worth IS, SOC,
and was held in 81 500 bail for a further
hearing tomorrow. Mullen was held for
any sympathiesI are all with you" Magis-
trate Cornell told Mr.. Robin. "The ma
iority Of accidents are caused by drunken
ohauffeurs taking their employers machines
out without permission
Mr.. Robin couldn't understand how
Burns happened to know 30 much about
his automobiles until a notebook, found
in the tonneau OF the machine, was handed
over TO him. It bore the name Of a relative
of the driver whom he had discharged for
smashing up his other car. Magistrate
Cornell then asked Detective Boyle Of the
West Forty-seventh street station vi to
investigate the case and arrest every man
concerned in 1t, Several new tires and
other automobile equipments were missing
from the machine after its wild run.