New-York tribune., 1912-01-14
DEATH OF FIVE IN ICY
WATER ENDS JOY RIDE"
Trenton Youth, Who Drove His
Fathers Car, Alone Escapes
to Tell the Story.
IN FATAL ACCIDENT BEFORE
Three Girls and Two Men, One,
Son of Judge Alfred Reed,
Penned In as Car Crashes
Over Bank.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Trenton, y. j., Jan. 13.-Frederick
Mulford Foster. a young man of this
city is the only survivor OF a party Of
six which started on 10y ride" early
this morning. Their automobile plunged
over an embankment into the water and
five were drowned.
The dead are: Donald Reed, son of
former Supreme Court Justice Alfred
Reed. of Reeds Manor; Chester Van
Cleef, an automobile salesman; Miss
Helen Mulvey Miss Margaret Tindall
and Miss Annie Guboski.
Foster. who was the driver of the car.
said the party left Trenton about mid
night and when near the Fisk estate,
above Brookville. turned to come back
to Trenton. The roads were heaped with
snow and the machine frequently skid
ded from its course At Brookville, he
continued. the big Lozier car went be-
tween two trees. over the embankment
and through the ice into the water
power.
After the machine struck the water 1t
turned completely around. so the front
part Of the car was close to the near
| bank. This enabled Foster TO reach the
bank in safety. The other five died like
rats IN a trap. Van Cleef was pinned
beneath the steering wheel. Reed and
the three girls were inclosed in the rear
of the car and did not have a chance for
their lives.
Foster Crawled along the icy road sew
eral miles To the roadhouse of Louis
Schmidt, near Wilburtha. Knocking
feebly at the door he got help and told
of the fatality. BY this time the young
man was "A mass Of Zee. His clothes
had to be cut from his body.
The police of Trenton and the Coroners
heard of the accident at 3 o'clock. Then
only told Of Reed and Van Cleef being
in the car, and it was not for~some time
that he let il be known that there were
also three Trenton girls under the ice.
At o'clock the body OF Miss Mulvey
was taken from the water. and shortly
afterward Miss Tindall was found. The
searchers were aided in their work by
the light of the moon. which revealed
Miss Mulvcy's hand sticking UP from
the car. They reached down and drew
her frozen form to the surface.
This afternoon young Reeds body was
recovered his father directing the work.
In the dead mans pockets were found
two half pint TASKS Of whiskey. The
bodies of Miss Guboski and Van Cleef
have not yet been recovered. The big
machine was taken from the stream this
afternoon after hours OF work. The two
bodies not recovered may have been
drawn on down the stream under the
ice
In his account Of the accident Foster
said the car skidded. although the snow
did not give any evidence Of skidding at
the point where the machine entered the
water. Foster also said not a stop was
made from the time the party left Tren-
ton until the accident II was said to-
day however, that they stopped At
Schmidt's roadhouse and had several
drinks. Coroner Bower has ordered an
investigation and Foster may be held
for criminal negligence.
The girls were we'll known in this city.
They met the young men on the street
! last night and readily consented TO the
10y ride"
This is not the first fatal accident in
which Foster has figured. In March Of
last year he was in a Lozier. owned by
his father, when it went over an EN-
bankment near New Brunswick. In that
accident Jack" Colgan. the noted bicy-
clist, met his death. Colgan was run
ming the car. WE.iam Foster brother,
was permanently injured.
| Since that time young Foster has been
forbidden by his father TO take the ma
chine out. Mr.. and Mrs. J. William Fos-
fer the parents, were in New York last
night attending the automobile show.
The boy disobeyed his parents for the
first time in taking his friends out on
the fatal ride.
New Haven. Jan. 13.-Miss Helen Null
vey one of the victims in the automo-
bile accident in Trenton, lived here until
ten months ago. She had been employed
In a department store, but left here to
live with her brother. Joseph p. Mulvey,
and his wife in that city after she had
secured work there. Her father, Patrick
Mulvey, lives here Miss Mulvey was
to pay a visit to her aunt, as her trunk
was received yesterday at the latter's
home. Miss Mulvey was seventeen
wears old and was graduated from a
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