New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-12-07
AUTO KILLS; SPEEDS ON
Y. i. STREETC4R RUNS #
NILE FOR DOCTOR.
TCstfCld M0n Vas Taking Plain
field WOmen on Midnight
= Ride.

PssiufeId. y. }, Dec. o Especial. Jonathan
4 Randolph a local contractor, was struck by
s1 automobile as he alighted from a trolley car
in West Front street here at 1880 o'clock this
1nernins, and died from his injuries hour
later ~ Muhlenberg Hospital The driver Of the
machine, Floyd Cooper, Of Westfeld, accom-
rsnied by three women Of this city, did not stop.
but continued TO Dunelen, two miles from here.
ana returned 10 Plainfield by another road.
Cooper was arrested at his home and locked up
81 police headquarters. Later q charge of
homicide was preferred.
chief OF Police Kiely learned that Randolph
bearded main line trolley car at 12:15 o'clock
this morning TO go home. The car was in charge
q Charles Hendershot, rnotorman, and Charles
Hy5e, conductor. When Front street and JEFF
ferson avenue was reached Randolph sgnalled
the conductor TO stop the car. and just the
mar stepped of the machine hurried Randolph
twenty feet, breaking both legs and tearing open
his body.
Both the motoTman and conductor say that
Cooper Vas travelling between thirty and thirty
I've miles an hour. and that he made effort
u step. The crew found the injured man in
the roadway, ard. carrying him TO the side
walk. ran the car with ali speed to Dunellen,
where Dr. Daniel {. Main was found and ran
i; hack with the surgeon
Tie police were called up on the telephone
vas started Patroiunan Daniel Macdonald at
about the same time reported that he had seen
- automobile with three occupants passing
through the town at high speed. and Rounds
nan Maurice Higgins soon called Up headQuar-
ters 20 repor that he had seen an automobile
speeding through the town without lights. Nc
Donald said he recognized one of the occupants
cf the car, and at O'Clock this morning Ser
Eesnt e-baugh and Roundsnan Higgins ar
rested Cooper at his home in Westfeld AT
first he would not talk, but when presented
with the facts and was teld that he had killed
man. ne admitted being in Plainfeld and
having accident. Cooper said his compan-
IONS were Mrs. Sarah Robinson and her daugh-
ter. Miss Nettie Robinson of Sandford avenue.
and Miss Schenck. Of Orchard Place this city
Their story Of the trip obtained by the po-
lice during the Gay II learned that Cooper.
s-ooupanied by William De Camp, of West
fel5. came to PIainfield early in the evening
and after a ride about the city with several
friends returned to Mrs Robinson's home, where
Inc after and her daughter and Miss Schenck
were invited 10 take ride. It was while
this trip that the fatality occurred.
nr. g. p. LufbUrrow, the Coroner, empanelled
jgr1- and viewed the scene Of the accident and
the hodv, and then adjourned until tomorrow.
when the inquest will he held Mayor c. J. Fisk
ana chief KieIy also assisted in the investiga-
s1or
NJ Cooper is about twenty-seven years Of
age and is engaged III the manufacture Of
asbestos in New York. When asked by Chief
Kie- and Mayor - J. Fisk TO why he did
stop when he struck the man, he replied
That in the excitement of the moment his only
thought was to get away. Mr.. Randolph is a
Prominent citizen here, is about fifty years Of
unmarried.