The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-12
|SAYAGE RIDE INA RED AUTO
TAXICAB SMASHED, WOMEN
HURT, POLICE DEFIED.

Bingham Cavalry Lost IN the wake OF Two
Be6 0sEled Men VINO Tear Through
Central Park and Escape UP Broad.
w~ay-Nobody Got tho Cars Number.
A red touring oar. containing two men
who wore auto masks and leather coats
smashed a taxicab 10. pieces yesterday
afternoon, injured three persons. led
eight mounted men and several bicycle
policemen a chase through Central Park
and finally escaped up Broadway in a
cloud Of dust.
The car wa first sighted at $50 O'Clock
on the west drive OF Central Park BY
Mounted Policemen Sullivan and Rolands.
It dashed into the park from Seventy
second street at q rate Of not less than
forty miles an hour. Both policemen
shouted to the two mon In the car to
stop.
60 to hell!' was the answer. The
driver put on moro speed and the car
whizzed past the policemen and turned
north on the drive. The horsemen right
about faced and went after 1t at full
speed.
The drive was packed with carriages.
among which the big car snaked IN and
out while women screamed and men
swore. One Of the men in the car grabbed
the horn and kept It going. Carriages
far ahead began taking to the lawns.
Rolands and Sullivan. coming fast with
a clear road. picked up several other
mounted men who had also hailed the
big car in vain.
By the time the automobile reached
Ninetieth street eight mounted men were
galloping in its wake. Bicycle police
men were peddling like mad far in the
rear. Three mounted mon had gone
Gathering up outside OF the park to head
the car OF and policemen had ~telephoned
to men further north that the car was
coming, so the Ninety-sixth street en-
trance and entrances further north were
blocked by policemen.
As the touring a rounded the turn
at Ninety-sixth street it encountered a
little red taxicab driven by George
Southall and containing two women
Southall swerved to n side and the
bigger car rammed the tAxioab In the
rear. The taxicab turned over and was
completely wrecked against a tree. The
three occupants landed In the roadway
and lay still, all Of them stunned.
The touring car never stopped an
instant. When the driver saw the police
men standing in the N~inety-sixth street
gateway he turned on still more power
and went through them like q streak
The policemen whirled their horses
around and took after the car. The pro-
cession tore through Ninety-sixth street
with the mnlInfnd man voIlinn and tho
auto footing its horn until Broadway
was reached. There the auto turned
north. The horses Of the policemen were
winded by that time and the men had to
pull up. Bicycle men kept up the pursuit,
but, were left in the rear: Not a motor
there was nothing to mark the auto
mobiles flight but a cloud Of dust. .
Meanwhile back in the park any number
of carriages had drawn up nea the
wrecked taxicab. The two women were
hustled into an automobile containing q
party Of women and hurried to q physi-
clans Office in West Ninety-second street.
The chauffeur was taken there in another
automobile. The women had many cuts
and bruises. They gave their names as
Bessie Ryan and Ruth Rand. both Of the
Hotel Margaret. l?a West Forty-seventh
street. and members Of the Havana
company, playing at the Casino Theatre.
wound He went home after having it
dressed
Detective were sent TO garages last
night to try to identity tina car. They re-
ported back TO Headquarters that they
were having no Gee
No n got the cars number. The
police said it had zone and was probably
a new high powered car out for a tryout
A general alarm was sent out from Head
quarters with a description Of the car and
the clothes Of the occupants.