The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-15
THOMAS, RECKLESS
AUTO DRIVER, NEAR
LYNCH|NGATC CRASH
Crowd Yells LET'S Lynch Him"
as Machine Hurls Carriage
with Women 20 Feet.
81 WILL NEVER AUTO
! AGAIN." DECLARES BANKER
Horses Killed, Coach Wrecked,
Women Bruised, Autoist In
jured, Results of Collision.
Especial to the Evening start

LONG BRANCH, Aug. 15.-When
in his 13O-horse-power Hotchkiss cup
racer crashed INTO a carriage contain
ing two women and a coachman, the
crowd of several hundred persons,
among them being many men Of promi-
~inence, became so incensed at the reck-
lers driver of the machine that cries of
lynching were heard.
"He ought to be lynched," cried
omeon
Lets lynch him." the others called.
and it looked bad for the unconscious
and badly injured millionaire when the
police arrived.
Thomas Is in the Monmouth Memo
rial Hospital with a leg .dislocated at
the knee and several deep cuts about
his face. On his cot today he declared
that he would never have anything
more to do with automobillng.
Mr.. Thomas. who had the record for
killing the first child with a car around
New York, was driving the same car
which a owe and killed c. L.. Gruner,
of P~assaic, in the last Vanderbilt cup
race, in 1906. The car was then driven
by Elliott F. Shepard.
Il am through with a~utomobiling Tor
good" said Mr.. Thomas or his cot In
the hospital today. II nave come too
near death, and I guess they've got my
goat" He tried to smile as he gave
xII- -5N--.x J1cor;DftOn af htc foolin OC
He admitted frankly that a great fear
has come over him since the accident
last night, and that nothing could again
induce him to get into a racing car.
The killing of two horses, the serious
injury Of a coachman, the minor in
juries of two women and the wrecking
of q fine carriage, besides his hos
pital bills, will cost Mr.. Thomas sew
eral thousands of dollars for the smash
up last evening.
MI. Thomas was driving a Hotchkfss
racer and in the car was his chauffeur,
Horace johnson. They were on heir
way to Long Branch from Mr.. Thorn
ass stock farm at Holmdel. witnesses
declare that Thomas was sending the
big racer along at sixty miles an hour
when the accident happened. He was
going north on Ocean avenue n q
carriage containing Mrs. Hymen Cohen
and her daughter, Of New York, and
driven by their coachman, Daniel Don
nelly, came up from Hollywood Baths.
The team and carriage entered Ocean
avenue, nearly opposite Cedar venue
Just as the Hotchkiss racer came tear
ing along. johnson explained that Mr..
Thomas was adjusting his goggles at
that moment and did not see the car
riage In time to stop.
The big machine struck the horses.
knocked them down and dragged them
many feet, carrying the vehicle after
them and overturning it. Mrs. and
Miss Cohen were thrown out n Sc
verely bruised. Coachman Donnelly
was hurled twenty feet, his c%ollarbone
was fractured and he was otherwise
injured. The heavy machine, valued
at $4,000, vas hurled against a fire
hydrant and Mr.. Thomas was pinned
under the wrecked car. When taken
out he was unconscious.
The crowd which gathered was in
clined to be unruly and there were
cries of lynch him. but the police
soon took charge and hurried the young
millionaire to the hospital. In the
crowd were a number of prominent
men who have summer cottages here,
among them being Daniel G~uggenheiiu.
The two horses were so badly hurt
that they had to be shot.