Evening journal., 1910-11-01
MOTORIST ON
TRIAL FOR LIFE
Millionaire Whose Machine
Killed a Girl Accused Of
First Degree Murder
GOING 50 MILES AN HOUR
WHEN ACCIDENT OCCURRED

BY United Press Leased Special Wire
NEW YORK. Nov 1.-Facing a pos
sible verdict that will send him to the
death chair. Edward I. Rosenheimer,
millionaire, was manifestly nervous
when his trial for murder in the first
degree was resumed to-day Rosen-
heimer's present plight grows out Of
an automobile accident on August is
last. AT that time, a high-powered
car which he was driving struck and
demolished light buggy on Pelham
Parkway, killing Grace Hough and
seriously injuring the other two oc-
cupants Of the light vehicle.
Rosenheimer is the second driver
of an automobile to be tried for mur-
der. following an automobile acci-
dent in the history Of the automobile
industry.
The first was Edward Darrah,
whose taxicab ran down young
child and who Is now servinging a
term in Sing Sing prison having been
convicted OF manslaughter.
The Rosenheimer jury is composed
Of prominent busines men selected
from a special list None Of the jurors
own automobiles that beong a condi-
tion both sides insisted on. One of
the jurors, George w Yeandle, was
a member of the jury that tried Nan
Patterson for the murder Of Caesar
Young and which could not agree on
I a verdict.
Tells of the Accident.
In his opening address TO the jury,
! Assistant District-Attorney Maynard,
recited the story Of the death Of Miss
/ Hough. According to his version, she,
with Miss Anna McCabe and George
Vedder were driving along Pelham
| Parkway keeping well to the side OF
the road. Rosenheimer with his ma
chine running more than sixty miles
an hour, according 20 the prosecu-
tion, struck the buggy from the real
and completely demolished Il, killing
Miss Hough and SO badly injuring th'
II two others that they are Btill com
PEELED TO 90 about on crutches. In
stead OF stopping 20 SEQ Il he could ai
: the victims of the accident. Maynar
: Gays. Rosenheincr put on power an
/. ran away. But for the fact that an
other autoist, John Deans witnesse
E the accident and caught the number q
2 the license car, 70 Is unlikely
would have been apprehended.
Mute evidence against the accuse
will be the demolished buggy and th
} Rosenheimer automobile with its from
caved in, which have been stored Il
, the police barns since the acci
{ dent.
Rosenheimer is being tried unde
the section of the code which makel
&c murder in the first degree, punish
able by death where a person Is kill
ed through "wanton act and wherl
there is shown a ":reckless disregard
I for the safety OF others even thongl
there be no generalization" He II
being defended by former Assistan
District Attorney James W. Osborne
Gilbert y. Nobloch and Gilbert L
Lamb. In his questioning Of III
talesmen, Osborne made 70 plain tina
the defense would seek to prove tina
the accident was due 10 negligence ol
the part Of the occupants Of the buggy
A big crowd of autoists thronge'
into the court room 90 listen TO IN
evidence as it was realized that yer.
important principal OF law is invol
we'd I'm the present trial as well a
the legality Of the so-called rule
81 of the road
4 Rosenhelmer Is the only son of Ju
+ lius Rosenheimer, a millionaire nee
die manufactures who was mystet
iously murdered in January, 1907.