New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-17
KILLED IN THE SUBWAY
Furrier Either Jumped or Fell
Before Moving Train.
WOMEN WITNESSES FAINT
Passengers Locked in Cars to
Prevent Panic-Relations
Call It Accident.

Richard Auerbach. furrier. at No. 50
Mercer street, living at No. 697 West
End avenue passed through the ticket
choppers gate on the uptown platform
of the Broadway subway at the 91st
street station about $50 o'clock last
night. He walked rapidly to the south
ern end of the platform and looked down
the track, as though waiting for train.
His appearance did not attract any spe-
cia1 attention from the two or three
hundred other passengers crowded on the
platform.
Within a few moments a northbound
the south of the platform. and as it did
so Auerbach was leaning over the tracks.
When the first car was within fifteen
feet of where he stood. Auerbach, ac-
cording to the police, suddenly threw
himself headlong to the tracks. In an
instant despite the desperate efforts of
the motorman TO save the mans life by
applying his emergency brakes. the for
ward trucks had struck Auerbach,
mangiing his body beyond recognition
Many women who had seen the train
cal and made rush for the street exits,
but persons pouring into the station
blocked the stairways, and as the crowds
grew larger and the station more CON-
gested the danger of a panic was i'm
ninent
Several Women Faint
AS soon as the train had been brought
to cfo ha LET Oh 70
the street and got Bicycle Policeman
Synington, who forced his way through
the huddled passengers On the platfrom
and made his way to the tracks. With
the assistance of the ticket chopper and
some track walkers, Synington picked
up the mangled portions of Auerbach's
body and placed them on the platfrom.
covering them with piece of cloth.
The sight of the terribly mutilated
body caused several women on the plat
form to faint and this added to the
panic that seized the passengers. The
passengers on the train had not known
what caused the sudden stopping of the
cars until they saw the body of Auer-
bach brought to the platfrom. and then
they made a wild effort to leave the
train. Seeing that this vould only add
to the confusion on the platform. Sym
ington gave orders that the doors be
closed until the station was cleared. The
guards then closed the doors and the
passengers were held prisoners
An ambulance from the J. Hood
Hospital was summoned. DR.. Bigley's
only duty was 10 pronounce the man
dead. The body was then taken to the
west Tooth street police station and the
train was allowed TO discharge its pas
sensers most of whom took the surface
cars to their homes.
kinsman Denies Suicide.
4 search of Auerbach's body revealed
several letters and cards from which
his identification was established The
rolice then notified his mother. Mrs
Josephine Auerbach, widow. with
uhom the son had made his home. Mrs.
Auerbach was prostrated by the news
and had to be attended by a physician.
David HAYS Mrs. Auerbach's son-in-law.
who was present. Immediately went 10
the police station and identified the body
bv means of a locket which contained a
miniature of the dead mans mother.
Mr.. Hays was emphatic in saying that
he did not believe Auerbach committed
euicide. but said that he was suffering
from failing eyesisht and might have
stepped of the platform by accident. He
said. however that a favorite niece of
auerbach's had died few days ago and
that Auerbach was greatly affected by
this.
Richard Auerbach. besides his interest
in the fur business. was the secretary
and a director in the Readograph Com
his brother. Edward A. Auerbach, is also
n director. He was forty years old.
G.. A. PEPPER CONVICTED