New-York tribune., 1909-04-06
AUTO GIVES BOY 4 TOSS
LATEST VICTIM My NOT
LIVE 4 D1Y.
Grand Juries Told to Deal Severely
zcih Speeders- Many 4rrests as
Result of Crusade.


when he down by large touring car
in Hunts Point Road, near Seneca avenue, The
/ Bronx He vas tossed fifteen feet by the ma
chine. and fell his head. His skull was
fractured and he received internal injuries At
Lebanon Hospital, wheDe he was taken it was
said he would probable die within twentyfour
hours
No arrests have been made for the police nave
been unable to decide who was running the
tomobile.
Young Noonan, with his chum. George zim-
norman of the same address, walking in
the middle of the road There were two auto
mobiles. one directly behind the other both go
ing at good speed in the same direction as the
boys. The Zimmerman boy says the machines
did not toot their horns. but that he heard the
whirring of the first machine and jumped to one
side. The Noonan boy had time 10 jump
The first car struck him.
The drivers the only persons in the two
machines They both stopped. one of the men
ran and picked up the unconscious boy and laid
him across the back seat of his The other
man picked up the Zimmerman boy who had
tripped and fallen in his wild scramble to escape
and put him in his Then they sped away
at full speed to Lebanon Hospital One man
carried the unconscious Noonan boy into the ac-
cident ward and the other led young thinner
man in by the hand.
I am Frederick Johnson of 72d street and
North River" said one of the men. We don't
intend TO dodge the responsibility for this thing"
Il am DR. Frederick W. Loughran of No. 742
Prospect avenue" said the other man
POLICE INVESTIGATING
They left the hospital after giving the names
The police started an investigation as soon as
they heard of the accident. There is a Frederick
Johnson, wealthy real estate man. who has
extensive realty holdings in The Bronx Iiv-
ing in apartment house at Riverside Drive
and 72d street He expressed great indignation
when told that one of the had given his
name
It's outraea, a terrible outrage" declared
Mr. Johnson L was not in The Bronx to-day,
and what's more I in my automobile
all day. My wife out in it this morning,
but she was not in The Bronx"
Mr.. johnson got his chauffeur on the tele-
phone and then said the latter denied having the
car out except in the morning. when Mrs. John
son was in it,
There is a Or. Frederick W I.oughran living
al the address No az Prospect avenue. He
not home when a reporter called several
times. The woman who answered the bell de-
MED knowing anything of the accident She
said the doctor had automobile.
Because ne told the truth when asked II he
had been arrested before. Henry Giskins.
negro chauffeur. accused If speeding dis
charged by Magistrate Marsh at Stapleton.
staten Island. yesterday. Walter Webb. law
student and grandson OF William H. Vanderbilt.
was held for trial in the Special Sessions Court
a similar charge.
Young Webb was accused by Patroman Troy
Of travelling at a speed of twenty-five miles an
hour In the Amboy Road. at Huguenot The
prisoner said he not going at the rate al
legged The magistrate said he knew Troy 10 be
careful and reliable man, and he held Mr..
Webb in 500 bail for trial next Wednesday.
The pedestrians chances in this city for a
long and happy life appear to be greater than
for some time. Magistrates. judges. automobile
manufacturers. owners and chauffeurs spoke
words full Of cheer yesterday to modest plod-
ders along the citys highways The reckless,
care free drivers Of motor cars, they said. must
eliminate reckIessness and cultivate care.
Otherwise. as Judge Swami pointed out in no
mild manner offenders shall be liable TO be ad-
judged guilty Of manslaughter by the grand jury.
GRAND JURIES CHARGED.
Judge Swami, of General Sessions charged
two grand jures yesterday. and referred in an
emphati, way to the new method Of committing
old crimes" He said that women and children
and the infrn and aged were entitled 10 use the
streets as much as the reckless drivers of auto
mobiles He referred to the increasing number
OF crimes which had been committed by men
possessed of the speed mania and added:
Men who do these acts recklessly and without
regard TO the rights Of others and who either
mai or kill are guilty of either nanslaushter
or other grades of crime. and II seems 10 me thdt
il would be proper and hitting thlng thdt II a
case of that kind should come before you you
should give II your careful consideration, and II
in yDur Judgment the evidence warrants II you
should without hesitation indict-and 90 not
hesitate to ndct for the crime of manslaughter
- ,ir,L- hat hNen
This is lust about the time. II seems 10 me Tor
thn Grand iury of this county to call a halt on
such extreme ScI1shncss as Is evidenced py thoSe
possessed of the speed mania 80
penal code that man who aids and abets IN
the commission of a crime Is equally guilty win
A man who commits crime. Inc owner "i an
automobile will sometimes take delipeI Idtely d
rbapffeur who has been known to be reckless III
his driving The minute that the owner OF tle
49,, ,n,,obiie nuts such chauffeur upon his ma
cbine In the public streets the law preSunes thdt
tha owner knows the ordinary act that the
chauffeur is going TO commit
r-vperi.nced .Iiawkshaws." and those anxious
90 snyelon latent Hawkshawian talents, crowded
,bo oescee Of the new National Highways Pro
.Aoti,A Society at No : East 33d street yester-
da,, Several applicants were accepted and put
20 work The society needs contributions 1t
WAS said which should be sent to Colonel Gill
ford Hurry, treasurer Colonel Edward ,.
cornell secretary. said it could not be too
strongly asserted behalf OF the society thdt
either cx-Judge Charles S. Whitman the so
ciAtvs counsel. representatives from MS
office would always be in court to sustain the
caus4 of the policemen making arrests for over
speeding.
Edward r. Hewitt president of the Hewitt
,,o.or Cor,ranv said that he in favor OF
the new organization. but added that the per-