Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-27
DIES IN AUTO CRASH
JAS. M. vARNUM OF NEW YORK
KILLED ON BROADWAY.

NEW YORK, March 27.-Gen. James NJ.
Varnum. at one time brigadier general of
staff of the New York National Guard and
surrogate of New York county by appoint
| ment of Gov. Roosevelt In 1899, died in
Roosevelt Hospital last night as the result
! of injuries received in an automobile col
| lsion with a Broadway car at It'll avenue
and 10th street early in the evening. Miss
Mary c. Frck of Baltimore, who was a
guest of General and Mrs. Varnum at their
home at SO East SD street, was badly cut
| about the head by flying glass. Mrs. Var
mum. the third of the party, was unin-
jured.
The police said last night that the &C
cident was due to the dsobedience of traffic
regulations by Alfred Quarl. the French
chauffeur of Gen.. Varnums machine. The
auto mobile was bound up Broadway. When
1t neared 46th street General Varnum order
ed the driver to turn back and drive to
the New Amsterdam Theater In 42d street.
Instead of running his car close to the
curb until he got to 46th street and then
crossing at right angles Quart whirled the
machine directly over, putting on speed to
try to head off a southbound car.
The car got there first and the auto
mobile hit 1t on the side Of the front vesti-
bule with such force as to wrench the step
off the trolley car. The automobile was a
car with a limousine body and only one
Prick sat on the seat, while Gen. Varnum
was on low stool in front of them. When
the auto struck the car his head was thrown
violently forward against the seat. A
small knob on the back of the seat punched
tiny hole in his skull and he fell over
unconscious.
When Traffic Policeman KNITTED and Po-
liceman Nelson of the West Attn street
station opened the door of the car they
found both women hysterical and General
Varnum covered with blood from hemor-
rhage Miss Prick was also bleeding from
many cuts on the face and head. Just at
that time a Roosevelt Hospital ambulance
on the way to answer call downtown was
stopped and DR.. Sammis was called to ex
anime General Varnum's wounds.
Hurry him to the hospital the surgeon
told them He can't live very long
The ambulance then went on its way
and the wounded man and the two women
we're hustled into an automobile offered
for the occasion by Will Hudson, chauffeur
for a. garage at cd street and Broadway.
They got to the hospital in five minutes,
and Gen. Varnum was hurried to the operat-
ing room. He died within five minutes.
Miss Tricks wounds were then dressed
and she went home with Mrs Varnum.
The police arrested the driver and the
motoman, Michael Goire of 456 West 35th
street. Coroner Acritelli went to the West
4Ith street station and heard the stories of
the tive men. The chauffeur explained
that he had planned to run to 18th street
before he turned west but fearing that he
Would nit the car II ne did SO he tried to
head off the car. Coroner Acritelli said he
was sure that neither was entirely to blame
for the accident, and released the two men
on their own resogniZance.
Miss Prick is the daughter of Mrs. Will
liam Prick of the Stafford, Baltimore.
James M. Varnum was born in New York
on June 90 1S4s. He was the son of Jo-
seph B. yarnum, a lawyer, and Susan NJ
Graham He was graduated from Yale in
1868. and took his law course at Columbia
He then entered the law firm Of his father
Varnum, Turney & Harrison. He was a
member OF the assembly in 1879 and $780,
and was senior aid-de-camp to Governor
Cornell In 1880. He was the republican can
djdate for attorney general in 1889 and the
anti-Tammany candidate for justice of the
supreme court in 1890. He was paymaster
general of the state of New York and
brigadier general of the National Guard
in 1895.
Governor Roosevelt appointed General
Varnum surrogate of New York county in
1859.