New-York tribune., 1910-09-08
.ROSENHE|MER GOES TO
JAIL WITHOUT BAIL
CriminaIIy Responsible for Death
of Young Girl His Auto Hit.
Coroner'S Jury Says.
WIFE sWOONS AT DECISION
Father of Grace Hough Collapses
as Witness Tells of Finding
Victims of Fatal Ride on
Pelham Parkway.


young automobilist whose machine killed
Grace Hough. a nineteen-year-old girl
in Pelham Parkway on August IL, was
held criminaIlv responsible yesterday by
a coroner's jury. His two companions
on the ride at the time OF the accident
Milton Fleischer and Lewis Schumann'
were held as accessories after the fact
Coroner Schwannecke, who conducted
the inquest in the Bronx Coroner's court,
held Rosenheimer Tor trial without bail
and fixed the bail for the other two at
$4,000 each. Rosenheimer's wife was
present throughout the inquest, and
when she heard the verdict she trem-
blAd and grew pale When the Coroner
decided to refuse bail she swooned and
was revived only with great difficulty
The most dramatic incident of the in
nuest was the recital of James Deans,
chauffeur for Charles J. Steinau, Of No.
53O Broadway. Deans found the body
of Miss Hough and her two wounded
conpanions. Miss Anna McCabe and
George Fedden.
Dead Girls Father Collapsed.
AS he told of picking up. the young
girl. to ascertain that she was dead. the
girls father. Walter H Hough, for
mer member of the New York police
force. who was sitting in the courtroom.
collapsed, and was carried from the
room.
James W Osborne appeared for
Rosenheimer and the two other occu-
pants of the automobile which caused
the accident When Rosenheimer's
friends refused TO testify there was
quite a passage at arms between their
lawyer and Assistant District Attorney
Turnbuu. who has charge OF homicide
cases in the District Attorneys office.
A Jury was chosen in a very short
time. and Patrolman Arnold Roster, of
the West Chester police station, was the
first witness called.
He was notified, he said, by owen
Dolan. assistant principal of the West
Chester school, that there had been an
automobile accident at Pelham Parkway
ard Cleveland avenue. This was at S:46
D. m. August Is. The witness was then
at Pelham Parkway and Eastchester
avenue. about a mile from the scene of
the accident. When he reached the spot
he found a number of automobiles
around and saw a girl dead in the road
way. and another girl. Miss Anna Nc
Cabe. badly injured. sitting by the side
of the roadway, while George Fedden,
who had been driving with the two girls,
was walking around the wrecked buggy.
Fedden refused to say anything about
the accident, according to the witness.
and was threatened with arrest unless
he told what had happened. What re-
mained of the carriage was on the south
side of the road. while the horse, with
part of shaft still attached 10 its
harness, had been thrown up on the en-
bankment. Miss Houghs body lay in a
pool of blood.
Brady Describes Arrest.
Mounted Patrolman Brady told of
seeing an automobile with three men in
it whiz by at high speed at 8 o'clock on
the night of the accident while he was
standing a New Rochelle Road and City
Island avenue. They paid no attention
To his summons 10 slow up. Another
came up at a furious pace he
said and ii slowed up it reached the |
and the driver. James Deans. |
told him that the fleeing automobile had |
caused the death of girl
Deans gave Brady the number of the |
machine, which was 100, ,412 n Y"
Brady communicated the number TO the |
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