New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-04
MRS. OELRICHSIN COURT
HER CHAUFFEUR HELD.
Says He Ran off 7citb automobile
and Spent Wild Night.

Frank w shaw chauffeur for Mrs. Theresa A.
Oelrichs. widow Of Hermann Oelrichs. who died
? at sea on September l. 1906, carried a party
around the Tenderloin and up and down Broad
way until 4 O'Clock yesterday morning In Mrs.
Oelrichs's imported automobile. When the po-
lice caught the chauffeur and arraigued him and
two companions in the West Side court yester-
day Mrs, Oelrichs appeared to prosecute the
trio.
one of Mrs. Oelrichs's guests told her that she
thought she had left her purse in the automobile
Nothing has since been seen of the purse. Mrs.
Oelrichs dismissed the chauffeur at o'clock on
Saturday afternoon. ordering him TO take the
machine around 10 private garage in West
6sth street When told of the loss of the purse.
which the police thought had been left in the
car by Mrs. Oolrchs's sister. Mrs William X
Vanderbilt, or one of her friends Mrs. Oelrichs
called up the garage about O'CLOCK and was
surprised to find that Shaw had not arrived
She called the garage UP several times before
o'clock. when she went to the West 6Sth street
station and complained against the chauffeur.
The garage is owned by a dozen families
Two policemen from the West 6Sth street station
waited at the garage, while other policemen and
several detectives went out on the case. Re-
ports came in occasionally Of an automobile re-
sembIug the Oelrichs machine flying around
tho Tenderloin with much noise and with the
speed Of a comet II was exactly 43O a. m.
however. when the missing car was run into tn.
garage.
ON corner near by the police picked up two
Of Shaw's companions who described themselves
as Edward ShOtwell "A chauffeur ana Robert
Jones' a salesman. The two men are friends OF
Shaw ana all live IN tho same apartment at
No -aiS st Nicholas avenue. Shaw aud his
conpanions were covered with mud from head
10 foot ard the once handsome car looked like
= mud cart. Both front lamps we're smashed.
the windows we've broken and the rear of the
machine was scratched, evidently where 1t haI
been backed into something. All three men
had been drinking Shaw was charged with
grand larceny and his companions were held In
$500 bail each as accessories
Mrs. Oelrichs, who kept in touch with the
police through the night up to the moment when
she was told the men had been caught arrived
at the West Side court ut $50 o'clock. accom-
panied by II. a. Black president of the Fuller
Construction Company. She took chair at the
reporters table but later q court officer invited
her into Magistrate Wahc's private Office. She
had to wait nearly two hours, and dictated her
complaint TO the clerk. When he reached the
point where the age Of tho complainant has 20
be noted, he hesitoted moment and gallantly
wrote, over tweuty-one."
Mrs OelriChs was watching. and when sh,
saw that she interrupted; THAT isn't duits
right, you know. I'm fOrty-eGht"
May l surrender this man on a bond had
given when he was arrested for violation of the
speed law2' Mrs. OelrChs asked Magistrate
Wahle when the hearing was held in the private
room. His arrest makes that bond void re-
piled tho magistrate. Shaw was held i'm 81 OAo
bail on a charge Of grand larceny. but this is
likely to be changed.
Section 90 of the Penal Code says that anv
person who wilfully' wrongfully commits an
act which seriously Injuries the person or prop
erty OF another shall he imprisoned for one year
or fined 5000 or both IT is not believed thar rho
chauffeur can be held on the larceny charge he
cause he returning when the police caught
him
He said yesterday In his defence that he had
spent several hours in trying TO repair the car
having had some trouble.