The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-04
AUTO MURDER TRIAL DEFENCE
SaYS me- WENT
BACk, BIr FOt'ND NOTHING.
n new Tie HAD struck Somethinx-w
Dtssuaded From Turning Back 81
once Counsel Biames Runabout.
which lae SAYS Was Drt, en- Careiessl,.

by Rosenheimer's automobile in Pelham
Park way on August Is last. went on ths
witness stand in his own behalf late yester-
day afternoon before Justice O'Gorman
in the Criminal Branch vi IN. supreme
Court.
The burden Of the young man story
WAS that he was not able 10 sac the run
about in which Grace Hough. George
Fesiden and Anna McCabe were driving.
because it was carrying no hight and that
after he struck tho vehicle with his motor
car he did no; realize that the damage
was serious
Ros.nhcimer told his story with APP
parent frankness. and even ON cross
examination did not become ruff'ed
His wife and family wer" N court. H.
said he was an importer and manufacturer
Of advertising novelties AZ 20 East i3ot'I
street. living at The Roses, Pelham. He 10
~ wears old married and has two sons.
On the afternoon Of the accident he AMI
his friend Milton Fleischsr had lunch
down town and then went 20 the Office of
bi 'hAAf ~ E'A ~ iNNAarW wv
Fleischcr. Later they went uptown.
picked up Schuman. another friend. ami
about o clock. after stopping in a place
10 get a can Of ice cream, started toward
Pelham. Fleischsr was driving until they
got % Pelham Parkway when the witness
took the wheel
Wills going at about fifteen rnilos an
hour hc saw some object appear before
him suddenly and ne turned his whset
to so to tho loft as tn" object only fcw
feet ahead appeared 70 bc going from
IN" loft hand Ia the right hand sid, OF ,ho
road and his car was ON tho macsdam
in III" centre. As h" put his wheel over
he put his loft foot on tn" clutch lover
and tr;nd to got a, tho foot brake With
his right foot His foot slipped and struck
tn" acC,l"rator. AIta- that th"re was
a snriNs Of explosions ike 'hr noisc OF
musk"try. h~ said and he heard nothing
n. felt slight joliing in tho rear of the
car on the right hand side and then a
scraping II" asked Fleischcr. who was
in the tonnsau. to $50 what the troubl,
was. and flcischer looked hack L wa1
told that IL was all right and To 60 ahead"
said Rosenheimcr
Whom ". had gone about $40 fest I
heard n rounding noise and slowed down
There %~~m>si - m something striking
against the mud guard. Further on.
perhaps a mile and a half. va stopped
and found that che pounding was caused
nv the rim Of one of the wheels Of a run
about.
4 said 90 my friends that there must
nav. boon an accident NOR" serious than
W. thought and that was going Ia turn
hack Ono ~ them said that il didn't
matter: 60 ahead
No. | said. I arm going back
just then "" heard a voice calling To
us II was that of n man. and he said
that woman had ba"n killed by us and
n hs had tn" number Of the machine
We had h"st go back
Tho others in the machine told me not
20 60 hack. hut I said that was going.
What il tho usc'' they said He has tho .
number and will give 10 to the police.
so GO on home and let fh" police come
for YOU. Their. might ha a good deal
at trout L. for all Of VS. " we 70 back
Then Ne went on home. When | went
10 run the car into the garage I found
that the brake was broken and 7 ran
IN 20 hard tina, I struck workbench
inside and knocked back the lamps.
when ! got down I saw that the mud
guard had been bent upward and that
TN. headlight on the right hand side had
been broken. That was the first I know
Of the force OF the collision. ! went into
the house and told NV wife. and she said
we had better ger a carriage from livery
stable and GO Ia IN" scene We drove
back in the direction from which I had
come in IN. car. and when ] got to about
,h. place, where l thought the accident
had taken place ! got OUT and looked
around | saw no signs Of an accident
and Their" were no other cars along the
road My wife said that II We went Z,
the Knick.rbocker Casino we might hear
II there had been an accident along the
road. 80 We drove there We ordered two
whiskie~. hut my wife did no, drink hers
Then ! asked the waiter n there had been
an accident on the road and he said that
there had not. Then We went hons.
feeling sure that nothing serious had
happened.
When we got home there were two de-
tectiys- there They asked me II I had
been III collision. did not think that
| had so told them that had not. Then
they arrested Mr.. Flei-chnr and m. and
took va to the Bronx detective bureau
Ros.nheimer told his story with but
little que-ti oning ON the part Of James w
Osborne. his lawyer Tn" cro-s-e1a ANNA
ton. which lasted until nearly O'Clock
last night was conducted by Assistant
District Attorney Maynard
DO YOU wish that jury to believe tina.
on that lighted public highway you did