The sun., 1910-03-28

IVY ntGup Haee speed almost Lest.
After a minis t,Ire Vanderbilt cup race
! over fifteen miles Of boulevard and farm
land. from east % Jamaica "a the upper
west side OI Manhattan Island. two
motorcycle policemen. John Mesle and
Edward Van Giles. captured last night
Edward X. Brown. chauffeur for Francis
McDermott. president of the McDermott
Dairy Company and member Of the firm
Of Callanah A McDsrmott. at the home Of
Mr.. McDermOtt. SIS West Ninety second
street.
The mOtorcyclers first caught sight
Of Brown In the McDermOtt car when he
came Eizzing along the Merrick Road.
which leads from Jamaica eastward along
the south shore Of Long Island The car
was apparently travelling at tremen-
doIs rate Of speed. IL rOared past the
two policemen before they could take a
step toward the middle u the road or put
foot 10 pedal.
The two policemen jumped ON their
machines and let 'sm out ~ fast "a they
could. They couldn't seem to gain ON
the express train automobile. la fact
IL wns leaving them behind. Tho man
driving the fast car seemed 20 wish To
turned from the aAphAltod highway over
. large open tract Of farm land on which
fences had been taken down preparatory
TO making IL into building lots.
The motor cycles couldn't follow over
this rather soft uneven ground. The
policemen had To keep "a the road and
watch the speeding motOrist As hest
they could AZ moments they lost
- 81 a..
whipping up red dust half mile away.
Had IL not been that the uneven 4eld
reduced the machines speed the two
policemen would have lost IL COM
plstaly
smooth road and in 80 duing the man
driving IL gave tho policemen a chanc,,
TO catch UP. They couldn't Ket near
enough 10 SEQ the machines number.
but they did succeed in keeping the pace
through Jamaica. The autoist pA-sed I
through the middle Of the village with
out lack-ning spced.
From jamaica the car struck cut ON
the Hoffman Boulevard. which lead- to-
ward Long Island City. Here the w.ld
driver made great time. bnt the motor
cycles had got their second wind and
INV al uShF "tNIiu lneiT
power But they coUldnt gain On the
automobile AZ all.
The car con, inued along Holman
boulevard and down rbonpson avenue
IL slackened speed considerably un ap-
preaching Long Island City. still the
policrTnsn thought Ait"rward they trav-
ellsd through Long Island iI'v al about
thirty milCs an hour.
Once ia the city streets the motOrist
dodgsd with a good deaf nI skill. Others |
dodRed tOo. Luck and skIll enAbl,~i tho !
fugitive car and the pursuers to pass up
jackson avenue and un TO the Qles.nsborO !
Bridge without mishap.
All this time the motOrist had not
stopped The policemen had not had
a single chance ia their Dr~sthlenz chase
to stop and send a messag. that would ,
stop the runaw ay car
Over the QueensbOro Bridge the tTia ?
passed and into Manhattan once on
the island the TnOtorIst slafk ened speed
and travelled wIth the moves Of a chess
man through the city streets The
mOtorcyclists kept right after him and
eventually they found themselves IN
front Of 3Is West Ninety second street
There in perfect repOse stood the fiery
car still breathing hard the 'wo po-
lcemen noted a New York number. Sis. ,
They rang the front doDrb-ll and " ere
ushered in.
Then thew learned that thoy were IN :
the residence Of Francis MCL~rmott MIR
Mcnermott wash - hOin- Was the chauf /
feur hones Why Yes. Mrs. Mcllermott
here, b" lived ~ IiS West SiNty- nth /
street The policemen followed Mrs /
McDcrmOtt IN and had the ~ sTisfi,ctiOn Of /
arresting Edward X. Brown
The JotC~men iOok Brown right
sirH ght tack to JHu RfCa There they
locked him up charging him with dis
orderly conduct IA running car SSls y \ /
over armers avenue. Springfield avenue /
ard Hempstead road. IN the borough Of ,
Queens al rate of iifty miles an hour
brown not producing "a chauffeur - license
they charged him with driving without ,
one 4 sDet,d Of fifty mites an hour de
rnands a charge uf di-ortisriy oOnduct
A. midnight last night Brown was
still locked up ~ Jamaica. no one having
snoNn up with S51 bali. Mr. McDerfnOtt
hadn't come home ami Mrs . McDeFmutt
sad she didn't know his whereabouts
Police Inspector Hood - The Bronx
had hIS men out on motorcycles yostsr-
day cruising up and down avenues alllrink
90 speeding AutOiztS. Ny "a" Hus'au
road b-tween IN" MilIaInshrnIRe and
White Plains roads Policeman Remington
lurked IN the bushes and pounc.-d out
upon a car driven by FrcOisrick Bsard
which was Mr. StoISss. A. IN. Rronv |
Park polics station the chauffeur was
charged with speeding thirty miles an
hour and held for examination THE morn
luE. MI JtONro 1aaA ANAN IlN Cllu not
beIieve they were going that fast. but
offered his house at Ssventy-third street
and Riverside Drive 70 bail.
On the Co1course At 10th street r.
johnson Thomas. chauffeur for J. p
Claiming. a consulting engineer OF
West Eighty ninth street. was arrested
Mr.. Claiming was not in the car Thomas
unable 90 obtain bail. VAS locked up.
AZ about the snme place Policeman
Nearny caught Howard Gritmnn. chauf-
feur for John y Walsh. who livessat STAPLE
ton, Staten Island. and mas Offices az I |
Madison avenue. Gritman. charged With
speeding the machine at the rate Of forty
five miles an hour. gave bail in the Nor
Tieania police station and will appear
In court this morning.
Nearny also arrested a Young man
for spseding on the ConcOsins@ who was
alone in the car and Said that hs was a
chauffeur. Al the station horse. how
ever. he gave hrs name AZ ROlsrt
Goeet and his address a. Newport.
r. l. He had cnly a New Jersey nunteT,
s52a on the hack Of his touring car. re
produced a roll Of bills from which hs