The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-26
FRANK HIGGINS IN
AUTOMOBILE |. !. WRECK
With Son of Late Governor of
New York Was Miss
Ethel Levey.
coLLIDEs WITH TROLLEY CAR

NEW YORK, August 25.--Frank
Harrison Higgins. son of the late Cow
ernor Frank w. Higgins. was pain
fully injured when his auto was
, smashed into by Smith Street troll
ley car at Coney Island and Eleventh
Avenue early yesterday morning.
With him in the car were Miss Ethel
Levey, divorced wife OF George NJ. CO.
han and hance of Robert Edeson, and
her cousin, Clara Levey. Both We're
shaken up and bruised. Miss Ethel
Levey's aym was laceroted by being
jammed against the supports of the
canopes, which were tightly drawn
over the tonneau. Her Cousins leg was
cut and bruised.
The chauffeur, Louis Shufeldt. was
bruised severely, and the Others of the
party say that had it not been for his
GOODNESS and command of the ma
chine all would have been killed1
Shufeldt. who was formerly employed
by one of the most rapid riders OF
the university at New Haven. was fined
$40 In NLorrisania Court on Friday for
bringing young Mr.. Higgins and a wo-
man companion home from the Empire
City track at the rate of forty-flve
miles an hour
To Lose No ,rIme.
Mr.. Higgins took his two guests
down to Manhattan Beach for dinner
Friday night. When the rain came up
they decided to outstay 1t, SO it was
we'll on toward morning when the
party found themselves on the return
trip. The night was black and
stormy, the canopies were tightly
drawn. and the chauffeur was told to
lose no time
He was speeding along Eleventh Ave-
rue. intending to turn into the Coney
Island Boulevard somewhere near
Greenwood Cemetery, and overlooked
the trolley car track. When he came
upon 1t the motor car was ascending
a slight grade at speed OF fifty miles
an hour. and a trolley car was coming
down hill at a rapid rate. 1t was too
10 tie to stop, and tho chauffeur put on
speed to beat the car, II possible.
The side Of the roadway was rough,
and Just on the track the car skidded
and was caught fast by the curb. The
trolley ear struck it from behind and
cut 1t almost clean in halves. The pas
sengers We're jammed up to one side,
and narrowly escaped being cut in
halves, as their tonneau was The POI
lice. who arrived few minutes later,
declared that everybody was thrown
out. but Mr.. Higgins and Miss LeNey
deny this.
Machine u Wreck.
The machine was a total wreck. and
the owner said ruefully last night that
he would have to buy a new one, All
the party came TO the city on the trof-
LEY car which had run them down. Mr..
Higgins went to the Hotel Manhattan
where a physician attended him, and
the women went to the Hotel Sonlonn
/ Mo- 1890 Broadway, where they have
apartments.
Nobody was killed" said Miss Ethel
Levey to reporter last night, but
this is because theNchauffeur knew his
business. We We're going6uphill, and
1.-The, trolley car was coming downhill.
There was q bend in the road and
we saw the trolley car, 1t was almost
upon us, and there was nothinee 70 do
but to try to cross. II we hadn't cot
damned by the side OF the reast we
would have cleared. My Cousins Les w
Injured, and my right arm syery paifi-s
Iful, but we're thankful II was no
worse" 4vse
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