New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-05-12
BROkER'SCARKILLSB BOY
LAD WAS PLAYING "STOOP-
BALL" IN STREET.
Minthorne Wo0Lsey, Who Ran OUer
Boy, arrested - Chorus Girls
Hart IN Taricab Smash.

-year-old Walter Purdy. Of No. rs West
s4th street, a schooIboy. was run over and in
staatly killed in the street near his home yes
terday afternoon by automobile owned and
driven by 8Iinthorne Woolsey. twenty-five years
old broker living at No. $50 West gath street
and with an Office at No 30 Nassau street. Two
boys who witnessed the incident told the police
that at the time Of the accident the machine
was running very slowly but that Woolsey was
bending over the steering gear, evidently fixing
something there.
The Purdy boy was playing lone game Of
"stoopball," which consists of throwing a rub
Der ball against the stoop and hitting it with his
hand on the rebound He stood in the street
near the curb. Woolsey was running his car
west through Gath street. On the front seat
with him was his chauffeur, Samuel Gordon. Of
No SGS Columbus avenue. The Purdy lad
stepped hack to reach for his bail it few
toward him The front OF the automobile struck
him, knocked him down and the wheels on the
right side of the car passed over his chest
woalsey stopped the car after IT had gone a few
feet
Assisted by Gordon. woolsey picked up the
boy and placed him in the machine. He was
about 10 start for the ]. Hood Wright Hospital
with him when PatroIman Brogan, of the West
Tooth street station, who had been called.
rived Brogan got into the automobile and held
the Lad while a fast run was made to the hos
pitai At 131st street and Amsterdam avenue,
nearly two miles north DR. Hammond. who
was in the receiving ward. said the to the
hospital useless. as the lad had been in
stantly killed.
The police got the names and addresses &C
two boy witnesses. Freddie Plenge thirteen
years old. az No. 116 Columbus avenue and
Harold Moore. fifteen years old, Of No. 113 West
oath street These boys were standing at
the time. bIt were not playing with young
Furdy. They told the police that woolsey was
bending over in his car at the time of the &C
cident and did not have his eyes the road
ahead.
PatroIInan Rrogau arrested woolsey at the
hospital and took him hack TO the West Tooth
street station, where he locked up on a
technical charge of homicide.
The Rev Frederick Lauderburn 4 curate Of
St. Agnes's Episcopal Church. reached the scene
Of the accident few minutes after 1t had hap
pened- Young Purdy was cadet in the mill
fsry organization Of his church. and the curate
broke the news to the lad mother. Mrs. Purdy
svooned but on recovering insisted on going to
the hospital Young Purdy Tas a student in
Public School 90, Amsterdam avenue and go
street and his father, James NJ. Purdy. is q
lawyer. and represents the Metropolitan Street
Hallway Company at Jefferson Market court
Woolsey later baied out by Abraham
Czruber- The chauffeur hunted up Coroner Har-
burger and brought him to the station house.
where the National Surety Company gave a
bond fer 5000
With q choice between being run down BY a
large touring and of running into e tree,
the chauffeur OF q taxicab in Central Park yes
terdsy afternoon chose the latter and turned
his car upon the sward at West Drive and 95th
street. Two chorus girls who were IN the taxi
cab escaped with bruises and decorations. The
chauffeur uninjured. and the men in the
speeding touring car escaped although two
mounted policemen chased them for half a
mile
The girls who were in the taIicab Bessie
Ryan and Ruth Rand, who with James T.
Powers. IN Havana and live in the Hotel St
Margaret, in West 47th street Miss Ryan was
thrown against the glass front Of the taxicab
and her head and shoulders went through IT.
Miss Ryan received slight decorations on the
nose, chin and lip. well the hands and
arms. and her wrist strained. A peach
basket hat also mutiated. Miss Rand suf-
fered a strained wrist and slight laceration
Of the right arm.