New-York tribune., 1909-04-16
MORGAN BELMONT HELD
ARRESTED FOR SPEEDING.
Other 4utomobiIists Arrdlgned-
T7rO accidents Marx the Day.

The rp,lice Of Far Rockaway reported last evening
the arrest in Hillside avenue, Borough OF Queens
Of Morgan Belmont youngest son OF Ausus' DE-
mont on the charge Of exceeding the speed iiiii'
fn an automobile The young man was alone III
his fathers car AT the time Young Belmont gave
his business address as No. . Nassau street ana
said he lived al No. - East 34th street
Inspector william F. Bottlier. Of the 18th Inspec-
tion District arrested personally Two automobllsls
YESTERDAY Botuier driving in his runaDout In
Delaney street where the street is being torn up.
= hen an automobile footed its horn frantically IN
an effort 30 pass him Re pulled aside little ana
the automobile f,assed. The inspector noticed IL
had no state seal IT. but before he could folio"
It there VAS much footing behind him again and
another automobile brushed by striking his horse
on the shoulder wish its mud guards
The inspector whipped Up his horse and chased
the automobiles down Delaney street until he
caught them at the Bowery. Jay Melish. OF No 81
Brevoort Place. Brooklyn. automobile dealer
was in the first machine. and he arrested,
charged with ha.ing stale seal He had the
seal in his pocket. He arraigred later in
Essex Market and held in 800 bail by Magls-
trate k7otel for trial.
The second car was driven by Harry Jones. Of No.
lG70 Fulton street Brooklyn He fined s..
Magistrate Krotel said lenierry should be shown
aCtomobiIists, because soon a man got an
automobile he also got a swelled mead.
An automobile. owned. according to the police,
by the West Side branch Of the Young Mems
Christian Association came into collision with a
hired landau l55th street and Broadway yester-
day afternoon. and although the landau was upset
and of its wheels smashed man and a woman
who said they Arthur G'Donneli and Mrs
Katharine Powers. Of No 2l2 East Goth street,
escaped serious injury. At first. however, ii was
supposed the woman's left arm had been broken,
and she was removed TO Washington Heights Hos
pital but there examination proved that her
merely bruised
The automobile operated by a chauffeur who
said he was Horace 3. Russell. of No 229 West
9Th street on the front seat beside him was
Louis Grether Of No. SG6 First avenue an instruc-
tor Of chauffeurs in the Young Mems Christian
Association automobile school, who at the time
was giving Russell points on the operation or
automobiles. No arrests made
As Thomas McGuinness. eleven years old. OF NO
a. West 3lst street, on mis- way TO school IN
the morning taxicab strucl. and ran over him at
Tenth avenue and SD street The chauffeur picked
him lp and took him the French Hospital, in
West S4.I street where i found that his scalp
was cut and that he internally hurt The
doctor in charge said he would recover The
chauffeur no. arrested
James H Sullivan. ironworker, recovered yes
rerday verdict in the Supreme Court for SeD
damages against Charles Austin Bates for injuries
received when ne was by Mr. Bates
automobile at Riverside Drive and s0th street on
December 16 1906. Mr. Bates not in the auto
mobile al the time which was driven by his chauf-
feur II was set up a defence tfat he could not
he held liable for the act Of his chauffeur, under
the circumstances.
Charles Steckler. Of counsel for Sullivan. SAID
the verdict upheld his contention that the owner OF
an automobile was responsible for any accident
which might happen il his chauffeur was engaged
in the business Of his employer at the time.