The evening world., 1911-03-22
FIVE HURT CRASH
Of AUTO WRECKED
DURING MAD RACE
Big Limousine Crashes Into
Telegraph Pole Splitting o.
cupants to Street.
OWNER PINNED DOWN.
Actor and Two LAWYERS
Among Other Victims of Gro
tona Parkway Smash-U
OWNER PINNED DOWN,

Two big automobiles sped southwark
on Crotona Parkway IN "a fierce race
for supremacy about / o'clock this
morning The contest ended In the in
jury or the 1--WE men IN one OF the cars
when II hi, a telegraph pole. The other
car never stopped to see what happened.
Near fremont avenue part OF the stree.
N torn up and a string Of rcd lanterns
warned the chauffeur OF one o: the
cars-a big seven-passenger limousine
hat he mus; cross the street.
Crashes Into Telegraph Pole.
Tho driver. Rudolph Newmark, TWEEN
ty-seven years Did. OF No. $50 West ono
hundred and rrfty-second street, swung
his wheel around and the car dartcd
across the macadamixed road, but It's
speed wes so great tina before ne could
control II the car leaped across the
curb. hit an iron trolley stanchion and
glancing OF crashed into a heavy tele-
graph pole.
Nswmark was thrown from his sea
and pinned under the w%reckago Of tho
car and four men inside the car were
badly cut and bruised. The other car
kept on It's way and disappeared. Wit
nesses OF tho accident summoned an am
bulance from Fordham Hospital by tele-
phone n rescued the chauffeur from
the vreokage.
DrIver Badly injured.
Before the ambulance arrived another
big car. driven by walter Wittkind. .
chauffeur. Of No. l7s6 Union Court Road.
doomed up wittkind recognized New
mark as q patron OF the o whore
he works and placing the injured In his
car started for the Fordham Hospital.
En- route they met the ambulance. and
Or. Noodle Of the hospital stan left the
ambulance. got into the car and ordered
II sent to the hospital at full speed.
A. the hospital Il was found that New.
mark 10 seriously injured, having two
other man, william Soloman. an actor.
twenty-eight years old. Of No. Is West
On~ Hundred and Twentieth street:
Henry Meyers, lawyer. ty- nins
years old. OF No. 82 West Ono Hundred
and Fifteenth street: Irving Ley. law
yer, twenty-eiGht years old, OF No. 30
East One Hundred and Fifteenth street.
and Joseph Sheer. clerk. thirty years old
OF No. al Yves One Hundred and
Twenty-second street, suffered from eu-
perrieial cuts and bruises about the
face. hands and arms. but we're no,
seriously hurt, and after oeins cared
FOR a, the hospital were abe to 60
home.
These men said that the wrecked car
belonged to Newmark's brother-in-law
Louis Mitchell, and was used by both.
n that they mad been invited by him
10 take a spin.
Says He Wasn't In Rsoe.
the y M raced with Newmark down
Crotona Parkway. asserting that ne
tust happened to De In the neighborhooc
when the accident occurred. and. reoog'
rixing a and chauffeur as being from
the garage where he Is employed, he
stopped TO lend his aid.
The other men IN the car told rather
confttctinx stories of how the acciden
happened. Some said 1t was due TO a
collision with another oar at fremont
unhurt, the occupants did not wait 4
SEQ the damaEe done. Others admitteS
that there was a race along the Park
way ending IN the crash and witnesses
OF the accident supported their story.
The big car. a s~plendtdly equipped
machine, IL q total wreck. It's from
wheels torn off. its hood crushed. light.
gone and front smashed.