Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-24
.DRAGS GIRL BY HAIR
Big Auto Speeds Ahead When
She Is Caught.
PULLED ALONG FOR BLOCK
Crowd Sees Victim Mangled Under
Heavy Limousine.
DRIVER CHASED IN TAXICAB
Makes Good His Escape, Leaving
No clue-Young Woman In a
Critical Condition.
DRIVER CHASED IN TAXICAB

| NEW YORK, November 24.-The blast
of an automobile horn and the sudden
shrek of a girl caused the thrOngs of
men and women hurrying toward their
| homes from the subway station at birth
| street and Broadway at Z O'Clock last
night. where an uptown train had stopped
| a moment before, to look into the street.
| There they saw a young woman, her skirt
and hair caught under the front wheels of
big limousine car. being dragged
screa ming along the wet pavement.
| Women cried out in horror and several
men, among them DR.. Chalmers Sangree
i of 571 West 139th street and Hans Gundl
| of $50 West 10th street, ran into the
street expecting the automobile to stop.
To their amazement, however the ma
chine, on the front seat of which sat a
uniformed chauffeur and a man compan-
ion. suddenly darted ahead at increased
speed. sweeping the girl caught beneath
its wheels along the pavement.
| AS suddenly as it had swooped forward
the car slowed almost to a standstill a
| stopped short in surprise, started toward
| it again. Again, however they saw the
car give a jump forward and again Slow
| down. repeating its sudden stops and
|
| tween 18th and 13Sth streets.
Shook Victim Off and Sped Away.
| The girl, who had never ceased crying
out. was thrown free of the wheels at
| 1:iSth street, and as though the manipula-
ton of the car had been for the very pur-
pose of freeing her body from the wheels.
the auto leaped forward at top speed once
! this was accomplished and fairly tore up
/ Broadway, its occupants never stopping to
see the condition of their victim.
Gundl, who had been shocked into in
activity by the movements of the auto
mobile, now ran across the street when
he saw the car making away, and sprang
| to the driving seat of a taXicab standing
outside of a restaurant much frequented
| by chauffeurs. Gundl drives car for
Herman Ridder, the publisher. Shouting
| to the taxicab's driver. an acquaintance,
! he started after the fleeing limousine.
DIR. Sangree and several other men had
picked up the injured girl meantime. Her
scalp was bleeding where her head had
been wrenched beneath the automobile,
her face and hands were badly bruised
and her clothing was almost torn off. She
was not unconscious although hysterical
from pain and fright.
While several of the men carried the
girl, one ran ahead to the Montefiore
Home at 13Sth street and Broadway and
DIR. Boroff, the house surgeon, hurried
out to help bring the girl in.
Girls Condition Critical.
In the office DIR. Boroff and DR.. Sangree
examined her carefully and found that
besides Vulnerable bruises which prac-
tically covered her whole body, the girl
was suffering from conclusion of the
brain and probable internal injuries. Her
scalp was badly torn also.
Before the ambulance arrived the girl
was able to give her name, which she said
was Alice Mohen. She said she was en-
plOyed as a stenographer in the Mar
bridge building, at 34th street and 9th
avenue. and that she had just alighted
when the accident occurred.
Miss Mohen said she raised her UNI
brela as soon as she stepped from the
subway kiosk, and. after taking glance
up and down Broadway, stepped into the
street to cross to the other side. Half
way across heavy gust of wind from
umbrella SO that her view of the street
in that direction was INSTRUCTED.
The girl saw no car or vehicle approach
ing when she left the sidewalk and de-
been going at high speed. for, hardly had
she lowered her umbrella to the wind.
when she heard the warming horn and
had only time to lift the umbrella and
catch a glimpse Cf the approaching car
before it was upon her, and she was
thrown to the ground.
Then / felt the ca squirt forward and
then suddenly slow up continued Miss
Mchen. AT one time l felt my ,-ody
pound upon the pavement as l was drag
ged ahead. The next instant I was almost
lifted from the ground by the speed at
which l was pulled along"
DIR. Du Bots hurried Miss Mohen to the
hospital, where it was said that her con-
dition was critical.
Pursuer Gives UP Chase.
Gundl in the meantime had returned
from a fruitless chase of many blocks
after the flying limousine. He said that
on the wet pavements his car and the one
he was following skidded dangerously in
the street. The driver of the limousine
was willing to take any chance appar
emily, and at last he eluded his pur-
suer by putting a burst of speed and
turning down a side street without shut
tir.; off his power. The big car swayed
and luz ched, but kept right side up, and
when Gundl reached the street the limOu-
sire was lost 10 sight.
In the darkness 10 one had been able
to get the number of the car, but 1t was
described by witnesses of the accident as
a big black car with silver trimmings A
dozen PLAIN clothes men were sent out
from the West 12oti street station to
secrch for il, ana every bicycle policeman
in the precinct was warned to keep a
watch out fer it.