The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-29
TWO AUTOS IN PISTOL DUEL
VIM UESs SEIENTI-SECOND
STREET DOLHES HILLETS.


revolver shots in the general direction
II new brown derby hat covering IN.
head ~ a -tocky gentleman who returned
the firr aud vanished IN another touring
car Of warship drab speeding cas-, left
all Amsterdam avenue. Broadway anu
Mest S.'venty-second ~ rect traffic tangled
yesterday afternoon about $50 O'Clock.
and 'hr nerves II the neighbor hood
Werr 'angled too
When battle SMOKE and the two cars
had cleared away about all hat the mel gh-
borhood could remember was that II
had paid no part ocular attention - the
automobile gun hgh'erS until the shoot
ing ,'ar'led The streets once har began
everybody was 80 concentrated on m"
single idea 81 lodging bullets that ~
un. made notes uf value To such ut The
puu~ a. were not present, tha' - 30
them all
One witness. a hov Of seventeen. saws
'ha' he caught 'he number II h" drab
car sprinting east a. IS6s7 which
the pohce saw Is h- number II a publc
touring car that usually waits for pas
sengers IN Long Acr'. square and - owned
bv rs driver. Joseph Calvin. who usns
the stable of Henry Boiler a 21i Wet
Forty sixth street a. d garage The sam"
boy witness Marin Moss of t?O Pact
issih -iIpe' saws that a. thus drab car
swung from seventy S.'Cund - rect north
into Columbus avenue b." saw hlO"d
trucking across III. face nf IA" s'ucAv
man ia The brown derby
There were fresh stains on the s,de.
walk IA front OF Ia West SEVENTY
ond street ~h,ch - "n the north sad"
and spatt.r,-h about the glass covering
Of a coal chute IN front Of the sam" house
Tn. ;JolIc- took th-s.. So he bioo,i-taInz
4 ~lnduW near nv was broken hv "A bullet
aud bullets had -tnICA the front steps
of Two hoIs..- bat when the I'olIc" arrived
these we're the only marks of the fight 20
he found
The stores - those who stw the shoot
ug conflict grievously but agree ~ SOM"
details There were lots ct wttneS--r.
because Just before the dinner hour
streams ~ touring cars are heading east
ward through West seventy second street
from Rivsrside Drive and westward from
Central PARK Up Broadway at the same
time come COUNTLESS machines bringing
horne business men and shoppers
Amsterdam avenue. which crosses
Broadway at "a very acute angle in this
latitude - tlled at the same hour with
homebound trucks and with trolley carr
loaded With the rush hour folks. The
first shot fred tied trafiC up IN knots.
A, the beginning there we're two tour
ing cars standing IA West seventy second
street east Of Broadway both faced west
The drab car was on the south side % the
street about a hundred feet from the
corner Only the driver Vas aboard
The car stood ia front u I;I. which - the
HON. u DR. Alfred 2 Hess. "A Con-In-laN
~ Nathan Strsus
TN the north side in front ut l3l was
the red car lone Witness SAYS Il wa- black
which also had only driver ahpdrd
B,It ue-ide The car ~rrc two tall. slim
vouuE men aud they were Joined there 10y
ID. -iOrky man IN the brown hat. who had
come from the drab car across the street
som" Say that young woman was ~ The
group Tor a few minutes
The man from the drab car began 20
shake his fist ia the faces " the two men
from the rel car Statements diner as
to winch -Id. beEau The shooting. Ont
most - IA. witnesses say that the ma
from the drab car fired III" first shot
lie ran rut upon the asphalt then toward
hts drah car siIll firing. aud AT the same
tiuI. the two men frnm the resi- car pulled
ont r-vulv-rS and b-gau to return the
shots
While the brown HATED man Vas run
ming aIurE a brick pile in front ~ a new
hJIIdinK next Ia the ONCE 81 Dr. II c.
Frauenihal at laS the doctor came To-
the door and AAW the driver ~ the dTab
car swing ms machine around and start
eastward toward Columbus avenue. the
man wih the brown derby jumping mt"
his car AS u passed him. " lipp-d IN
east a. the two young men yumf""t mt"
their red c,r They exchanged on" ~
two shots with the drah machine and
then headed west
The first shot had been mistaken by
dr. vers ~ the BrOadsay corner Tor
bursting tire. but when the real caur"
81 the racket was learned there was
scurrviug for safety On the three inter
secting streets that Jammed tram"
Trafqc Policeman John HRriwig stationed
near the subway entrance IN Broadway.
had trouble IN getting o'Ii ~ the tAngis
for a few moments. and then he Jumps
into a passing machine To chase the drah
car disappearing east
The policeman. followed Nv Bicycle
! Policeman James MoCee, who while on
duty happened by and also jumped into
a touring car on Broadway, pursued the
drab car but ~ vas ~ ingInR north INTO
Columbus avenue before the policeman
got under wav They Kept IL ~ sight
along Columbus avsnu" bat could rot
catch up with ~ and 40 Eighty second
street they los, sight 81 - 10 IN" franc
miNup
numlar 81 volunteers among the
chaufeurz ~ the n"ighbOrhnod started
- make tracks after IN" red car that
had gone west hut hv IN" time IN"
volunteers had got their wife thor" was
no telling which red car IN sight io follow
boy named George Smith. ~ho wn-
driving n car IN West seventy second
street SAYS that h" was On m" hring I'm"
bet ween the red and the drab car white
the shooting was going on, hui that h"
ducked into his own tonneau aud didn'
come NJ for air until both cars had
disappeared