New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-06
H0ODLUMS DROWN GIRL.
ROCKED Il SW4N BOAT.
Shylarhing in Park Imperils Ten an
A4dditiOn to Victim.

Watched by thousand holiday makers, three
young East Sders OF the type which has made
elevated trains and subway cars unsafe caused
the death yesterday of young girl and i'm
perilled the lives Of nine other young people by
rough housing" one of the swan boats in Cen
trail Park until they capsized the craft fiinging
all into the water That more were not drowned
was due entirely to the good work of the three
M Of the park police, Patrolmen Murdy, Mil
Ter and Moynihan
1t is possible that more than one drowning did
result from the skylarking since while eleven
passengers We're accounted for the police say
there were three more These three however, are
believed to be the young fellows responsible for
the accident and they probably fled
they got out of the water. Arnold Pish who has
the boat concession the lower lake in the
park, has been held by the police in connection
with the case.
The motive power of. the boat Thomas
Lee. who sat behind the swan. propelling it by
working small paddle wheel with his feet.
Pish says that soon after the boat left the land
ing he saw three young fellows rocking the boat
and otherwise misbehaving and he called to Lee
TO watch them. A few minutes later as Lee
made a sharp turn, the three fellows by their
skylarking caused the boat TO Capsize almost
directly under new bridge the pond. The
three patrolmen seeing the men and girls in the
water. plunged into the water. They took out four
young girls. getting them safely to shore. These
We're Charlotte Herman of No. 257 I'd street;
Mary Ryan, of No. S66 I'd avenue and Veronica
Patton and Lillian Devine, both of No. 2O3 East
43d street
Then Moynihan got hold of Philip Woelker, of
No. 2o7 I'd street. who had accompanied Miss
Herman to the park. He did not know that the
patrolman had already rescued her. and refused
o1Ix-t tna a+rO1-
man persuaded him that she was probably
ashore and Woelker started to swim: for the
landing but had to give up when the cold water
benumbed him Moynihan got him ashore all
right however
While the young girls being rescued
John Conlin. of No $40 Oakland street, Brook
lyn. who is only an Indifferent swimmer, had
great trouble in keeping himself and his seven
year-od son afioat, but the police got him out
safe. too Elizabeth Devine, an eighteen-year-
old girl. was with her brother James five years
younger when the boat was overturned. She
tried TO swim ashore. but the cold water was
too much for her and she sank. Patrolman
Murdy who had just made two trips ashore,
reached her just in the nick of time.
When the Devine girls got ashore with Mary
Ryan. they missed Mary Murphy. seventeen
wears old OF No. 247 East 45th street who had
been one of their party Pish, when he learned
that the girl was missing. put out in a small
boat To the overturned swanboat. Caught on
nail on one side he saw girl 50 black
skirt Without delay he pulled the girls body
out OF the water. but she WAS probably already
dead. although DIR. Engelson, OF Roosevelt Hos
pitaI. worked over her for more than half an
hour trying TO restore her TO consciousness. The
body was then taken 20 the station house. and
her father. william Murphy, painter, was told
OF his daughters death.
All the others taken from the arsenal 10
the Presbyterian Hospital suffering from shock
caused by their immersion. The condition of
none of them IS serious. although the girls are
all suffering from hysteria well as shock. All
will be able to go home this morning
Lee the attendant the boat, arrested
late in the evening by Acting Captain Heffer
nan of the Arsenal station. The acting captain
said that the charge would probably be made
homicide when the prisoner arraigned this
morning in the Yorkville court