New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-12
RACE TO HOSPITAL
CROWD PURSUES CAR
CARRYING VICTIM.
Bag Ridge Girl One of Three
Children Struck by 4utos
IN City.

-7a,+ dozen mounted and bicycle
ro,.ce.nea pursued speedlng au'o
mobile. carrying siTl WHO hau pee.-
injured BIZ the machine 20 hospl'ai'
f..r more than & mile through the steet'
u pav Ridge last night. After taxing
rb. -ri1d to the hospital the owner "l
t,.. automobile surrendered 10 the ponce
S;x-vear-old Helen Mandel. daughter
~ Herman Mandel. tailor of NO ''N"
Third avenue. was playing in front OF
f,o~ fathers shop shortly before o'clock
last night when an automobile o"-'eu
,rd driven by James s. MasJerman'
s::pertnteudeat Of printing for the Metro
roitan Life Insurance Company, VINO
lives at No. -3 S2d street, approached al
Il race that caused the children 10 scurry
T. the sidewalk Masterman slowed
down. but not soon enough 10 avoid an
accident
little Helen was struck by the mud
ruerd Of the machine and knocked down
Nosterrnan said after the accident tha'
lie cid not think that she had been run
over by the car. He stopped his auto
,,f,l7ilc iun7ped out and carried the little
osr1 inn her fathers shop. Finding that
ebs VAS hadIv hurt he carried her back
10 his machine, and with her father ana
mother accompanying her started at
high speed for the Norwegian Hospital
at Fourth avenue and 10th street. mile
end q half away.
He had hardly gone three blocks be-
fore a bicycle policeman ordered him to
stop and started in pursuit when his
command was disobeyed. a few blocks
further on mounted officer took UP the
chase Before the machine had gone
half the distance TO the hospital it was
being followed by half a dozen men.
The noise Of the automobile horn and
the clartering Of horses hoofs attracted
{ large crowd. which followed in the
wake Of the hunt
The automobile distanCed all COM
petitors. however. and drew up at the
hospital a winner of the race by a safe
margin. Masterman carried the little
victim into the hospital and DIR. Hunter
examined her. oEIe said that she had a
fractured skull and probably internal in
luries. and that her recovery was doubt
ful. The owner of the car which was
responsible for the accident ordered that
TO expense be spared TO save the child's
l-fe and then went out TO greet the van
guard Of his pursuers.
a big crowd was struggling toward the
hospital, but Masterman told the police
that he would go TO the Fort Hamilton
station at once in order to avoid the
throng. He explained the accident to
Lieutenant A1ulvey, but the latter said
t.at while Masterman had acted in
commendable manner he had no alterna-
tive but TO hold him for examination in
the Fifth avenue court this morning on
{ charge Of assault.
While Bay Ridge was being stirred UP
by the circumstances following the acci-
dent 10 the little girl q four -year-oId boy
vas struck by taxicab in Manhattan
and seriously injured, and a girl, only
seven years old, was hit by a touring
car Esther Edgerton. daughter Of
James Edgerton, an editorial writer for
the American Press Association, was
Knocked down by a car owned and
driven by Dr. William A Cimillo OF No
-7to Arthur avenue, The Bronx at St
Nicholas avenue and 1S1st street
Dr. Cimillo carried the little girl TO the
Mashington Heights Hospital, where 1t
" as found that she had been bruised
atoCt the chin and forehead and had lost
t"o teeth. Otherwise she was unhurt
LE Cinliilo was taken TO the West 152d
street station charged with assault He
"as balleG out by a companion.
taXicab driven by Patrick Kilgan-
non, Of No pa West 50th street, ran
o.~r Louis Gold, who was playing in
ITont Of d restaurant owned by his
tather, at No. 30s East 33d street Kill
cannon said that he was on his way TO
The East 34th street ferry, when the
mild ran in front Of his machine Be
fore he could stop he had hit the boy.
-ossing him about ten feet. He then
picked him up and carried him to Belle
Fue Hospital DR. Burt said that recov-
cry was doubtful, as the boy had re
eelvcd a fractured skull The chauffeur
Was locked up in the East Both street
station.