The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-22
AUTO CHASERS CORRAL FOUR.
LIVELY NIGHT IN CENTRAL PARK
FOR BINGHAMS SQUAD.

PARK Cops vainly Call on Commissioner's
Men to Stop woman Offers Her Jewels
a. BAH for One offender Might Bank
Saves Him Each speeder Fined $40.
Police Commissioner Bingham's auto
mobile and q squad Of automobile chasers
got. busy In Central Park and t~hereabouts
late on Friday night and az a result four
speeders were arraigned In the Yorkville
police court yesterday. The Commissioner
had received information that certain
eutomobilists went through the park nights
at such reckless pace that they endangered
other vehicles as well as themselves. The
mounted policemen and the bike cops
we're unable to catch the speeders.
The Commissioner thought that perhaps
his machine, which can make fifty miles
an hour, would be able to accomplish
something. So Detectives Benjamin Mallon,
Law and Scanlon we're instructed to cruise
about the park. Policeman William Leitch,
Gen. Bingham's expert operator, had charge
Of the wheel.
1t was after 10 o'clock when the squad
All hands were In plain garb. At Forty
seventh street a big machine passed them
at a fast clip. headsd uptown. Mallon
got out bis stopwatch as bis car trailed
behind and timed the machine ahead for
two bloo,s. He decided that IL was going
at the rate Of twenty-five miles an hour
and was increasing its speed.
The police tried to overhaul the speeder
but couldn't catch up. The two soon
covered tho distance along Broadway to
Ffty-ninth street and there they entered
the park. There were two men and two
women In the first car. They did not know
at the time that the men in the car behind
we're policemen but they managed to keep
a good distance ahead as they sped up the
West Drive.
Each time Leitch increased his speed the
other car put on more power until they
were going about thirty miles an hour.
The ordinary park policemen shouted to
both machines to slow up but the request
was not needed. 1t was not until the
chase had reached 10th street that the
police car overlook the other one and ar
rested the operator, William Tickling, q
manufacturer Of l54 East Fifty-seve nth
street, who owned the car. He was taken
to the West Tooth street station and bailed
for appearance in court. .
The policemen wen back to the park and
loitered near the entrance at ~Fifty-ninth
street. In a short time a big automobile
in which were a man and five women came
along and took the West Drive up town.
The time was twenty miles an hour, accord
ing to Mallon's stop watch, 30 the police
started out on another chase. This one
ended at a point opposite Eighty-frst
street, where the speeder was %overtaken
and escorted to the West Tooth street station.
Sergt. Andy Devery, brother OF Big Bill,
was behind the desk and took the pedigree
mission merchant, who lives at 300 Central
Park West. He was told that 500 security
was wanted for his appearance in court.
But he didn't happen to have 90 much cash
about him, nor did his companions.
The women had gone into the station
from her finger and diamond rings from her
ears, and offered to leave them and other
jewelry on deposit.
These may be real diamonds and worth
all you say, lady, but I'm no expert and
'"4 have t.. The Day and Night Bank
IL just the thing to save me from being
locked up. said Crawford.
He got the money was let go.
It was now midnight and the police again
speeding along the West Drive at a rate Of
twenty-five miles an hour. There were five
women and a man in each car. The men
were arrested without much trouble. One
of them was Charles c. Valentine, dry
goods merchant, who lives at 1Ol West
Eighty-ffth street. The other was Patrick
j. Dealey, also in the dry goods business,
who lives at 1925 Hudson boulevard, Jersey
City.
We were a theatre party and had nc in
tention Of breaking the law. | had a new
car and neglected to take my chauffeur
along, and got going faster than I would go
had | known the speed Valentine said to
Magistrate Cornell.
The Court told him it was his business
to know how fast his machine was going,
and gave him a $40 fine for violating the
park ordinance.
The three other men paid similar fines.