The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-10
MURRAY ARTHUR
KILLED At DEAL
BOARDING TRAIN
Son of Mrs. j. B. Kinney, Cigar.
cite Millionaire's Widow, Has
Legs Cut Off.
RACED AUTO TO CATCH
YOUNG LADY ON EXPRESS
Popular Young Man Jumped for
Car Twice, Missed and
Rolled Under Wheels.
L. S. PLAUT RACED HIM
In AUTO TO HOSPITAL
Got Injured Man to Long Branch
in Record Time, but He
Died There.
L. S. PLAUT RACED HIM
In AUTO TO HOSPITAL
Especial to the Evening Star.l


DEAL BEACH, Aug. 10.-Murray ".
Arthur, the young son of Mrs. ]. B.
lney widow of the cigarette million
aire, was today fatally injured by the
train which he had defeated with his
automobile in sixty y-mile-an- hour
race from Allenhurst in an effort to
reach the side of Miss Jane Stanley,
the beautiful daughter of John F.
Shanley, of Newark, who was a pas
senger on the train.
Both of the young mans legs were
cut or and he died short time later
In the Monmouth Memorial Hospital.
Mr.. Arthur, who was only q years
old, called with his high-power auto
mobile early today at the cottage of
Miss Stanley to find that she was Just
then boarding the train at the station
for New York
The young man sprang into his ma
chlne and turned on full power He
overlook the express train and for a.
mile ran alongside, going at a high rate
or speed, and trying to pick out the
face of Miss Stanley among those who
crowded the windows to witness the
fast express train.
A couple Of miles out of Deal Beach
young Arthur applied more power and
shot ahead of the train, reaching Deal
Beach station fraction of a minute
before the express was to have ar
rived. In that fraction he turned the
motor over to a chauffeur and darted
across the platform and planned to leap
on hn froiY q -
does not stop at this station.
Scores See Fatality.
A score of persons awaiting the local
train following the express saw Arthur
leap for the handle-rail of the first car.
But the train was moving so rapidly
that he missed it. Then they saw him
race with the train and grab for the
handles of the second car. His feet
slipped from the steps, and he was shot
under the coach. and as he rolled the
wheels overlook and cut off his legs
There was the widest excitement
for several minutes When he was
brought out he was still conscious, and
he was heard to ask If Mis- Stanley
was there. At that time it was not
known that Miss ShanIey was on the
train, and many of those on the train
did not know the identity of the young
man. Some said later that Miss Shan
lay was among those who got off, and
that she attended the young man, but
others insisted that she was in an
other part of the train, and that when
the train moved away she and none
of the other passengers knew nothing
of the identity of the victim.
While the scores of persons gathered
about the young man. Joseph Micelli
hurriedly directed the application Of
first aid d-to-the-injured treatment and
then Louis Plaut. of Newark. volun-
.eered to race young Mr.. Arthur to the
hospital in Long Branch. There would
have been a wait of several hours for an
ambulance and Mr. Arthur would have
Sled to death at the station.
The Plaut machine made record run
to Long Branch. not needing any speed
regulations, and at the hospital, where
telephone messages preceded the in
jured man, an effort was made to save
his life. But after reaching the hospi-
tai Mr.. Arthur did not regain con-
sciousness, and it is not probable his
friends believe, that he suffered any
pain except the first few moments after
the accident.
in the summer colony along the Long
Branch shore. Although only % years
old, he numbered among his close
friends the older residents of the re-
sorts.
He was connected with the Smith
Contracting Company, of New York