The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-23
KILLED WHEN AUTO HIT POST
MASON'S SKULL CRUSHED As
HE rs HURLED FROM CAR.
nurse Held Dyins Man while POlieenaan's
whistle Cleared way Ter nush % Hoe
pltaI-M assn's VIE Names Chauifeur
-sayH she Had warned Husband.

whistle Cleared way fer Rush % Hes
| pltal-Naassn's Wlfe Names Chauffeur
says she Had warned Husband
Edward A. Mason. proprietor Of .
garage at 10 West IO7d street. was killed
early last night in an automobile craah
near the Dyckman street subway station
when machine in which he was riding
-kdlded and struck a pillar % the elevated
/ part of the subway. Mason was thrown
against the pillar and his skull was crushed
/ in. Tie died half an hour later in the
/ Washington Heights hospital.
/ In. automobile IN which Mason was
riding is owned by John r. Giles Of 20
Central Park West. who l. in the whole
sale underwear business at S5O Broadway.
Giles bought the car three days ago and
pit y in Ms-on's garage.
} The machine - n National touring car
% considerable horsepower. Giles had
entered IL in the Fort George hill climbing
contest which 10 90 bs held on Decoration
Day and yesterday afternoon he decided
to give il a tryout on the Fort George
hill course.
Mason loaned Giles one oI his own
chauheurs. Roy IAsher Of III West iood
street. LAsher Is ~ years old. AZ the in
vitation OF Giles, Mason and Daniel
McNamara. a saloon keeper at so Column
bus avenue. went along for the test.
II was about o'clock when the party
neared the turn from Dyckman street
/ into Maggie avenue IAsher was driving.
4 With him on the front seat was Mr.. Giles.
Mason and Mcnamara were in the ton
neau. To make the hill u il usual for
nutomohiist- 10 get a flying start up
Dyckman street and Magic avenue. When
Ii ,her nearcd the hill he turned on more
ppwcr and the car was making about
forty five miles an hour.
Al the junction Of the street and avenue
there Is a sharp turn. Also az the turn
there u a pillar supporting the elevated
structure above. Between this pillar and
the curb the space left for the driveway 10
only about thirteen feet The machine
was behaving splendidly until IL neared
this particular pillar and Lasher was
leiting out the speed little by little when
suddenly the rear wheels Of the machine
skiddsd and the car whirled about.
The speed az which the car was going
drove il sideways in a long curve until
the rear Of IL smashed into the pillar.
All four men were thrown out. Three
OF them llnded on the roadway some
what bruised hut not much hurt. Mason
was tossed against the pillar.
A Mrs. Durando saw the accident from
the windows of a road house OF which
her husband ~ proprietor. She tele-
phoned for an ambulance and then ran
out into the road. Another who saw the
accident was a blue uniformed nurse.
who declined TO tell her name. The
nurse. on her way to the subway station.
ran 10 the only man Of the four who did
not rise from the road ana examined
him hastily. His skull was terribly
crushed The nurse strove TO DAndage
the injuries a. well a. she could with
her handkerchief and strips 81 her cloth
ing.
In iured man X. l.. Curran. = demon
ssrator for the American Motor Car Com
pany az I72O Broadway. came along In a
machine, Curran helped the nurse and
the unin jurrd men Ia get Mason into the
machine and drove toward the Washing
ton Heights HOSPITAL. Policeman Nc
keon ~ the West l52d street station.
jumped on the footboard and was taken
along.
The hospital car was driven "a the hos
pital az greater speed than the wrecked
car had be-n going at the time OF the acct
dent. The Rad was kept clear for 70
by the combined racket ~ the automo-
whistle. On the way to the hospital they
passed the ambulance. A. they whlzzed
by Mckeon shouted 20 the ambulance
driver Ia turn around and come hack.
Mason was alive when he reached the
hospital. hut died before he was put on
the operating table.
The nurse who cared for Mason was
not known az the hospital. When asked
for her name she said that II didn't matter
that such work was her profession
The men who made the drive 20 the hos
uItal said that the nurse literally held the
in .ured mans skull together until she had
delivered him to the hospital physicians
Coroner Fcinburg ordered the arrest
of laSher and fhe chauffeur was locked up
] N the West ls2d street station on a charge
/ Of homicide.
Mason WAS ~ wears old He had been
married hut wear. His wife was called
7 from their home at ll2 West lOJd street.
She got tn the hospital IN hySteucal
condition She accused the chauffeur OF
r,ackie-sncsS and SAID that she had warned
her husband that l.asher was not a safe
man 20 trust with "A machine
Iasher. she said. had heen with her
husband for some yeEr-. The chauffeur
fell OH his knees before the wife % his
dead employer and legged her not To
accuse him Of causing Nlasons death.
! The chauffeurs own condition was little
short of hysterical and the police watched
HIM for fear he would do himself harm