New-York tribune., 1912-01-23
CHAUFFEUR AND OWNER
HELD FOR BOYS DEATH
Police Trace Car by Means of
Number Dead ChiId's Play
mate Remembered.
HIT SOMETHING, THEY SAY
Wealthy Architect and Driver
Agree They Didn't Know They
Had Run Down a Boy
Didn't Turn Back.

Fred Heyl. chauffeur, who admitted
that he drove mis- car along West End
avenue Friday evening, and that he re-
membered having hit something" the
police said, wos arrested last night.
charged with the death of little Patrick
Fay, jr., and was locked up in the West
6Sth street polite station. Shortly after
Mccormack and Sharp, who had arrest
ed the chauffeur, returned 10 the station
with Simeon Is. Eisendrath. a wealthy
architect, of No. 230 West 9th street.
and owner of the automobile and locked
him up on a charge of being an accessory
after the fact, and with having concealed
a felony.
While the police believed they had
solved the problem which confronted
them in :he death Of the Fay child, UP to
the time of Heyl's arrest, at o'clock last
night, they were still following up own
ers of cars whose numbers they had
formed out Of the figures obtained from
young Thomas Lorenz. Fay's playmate,
who witnessed his death. The Royal
Garage, in West 9Jth street where Heyl
was found. was the sixty-seventh place
the detectives mad visited in the last
three days. and the search had, besides
covering the city. extended TO Great
Neck. Babylon and Bayshore, Long ISL
and, and Ossining. y Y.
The tip which set Detectives MacCor-
mack and Sharp on Heyls trail came
from Thomas Barrett, OF No. 24iJ Eighth
avenue. who was driving a delivery
truck along West End avenue. and got
sight of the license number of the big
olive green car which crushed the life
out of little Fay He told the police
Yesterday he was sure i9630 was the
number Of the car, and Sharp and Mac
Cormack started out 10 look for the
owner. They found that such a car had
been owned by u Spaniard last fall VINO
had since sold It to an agency. After
a long search through the lists Of car
transfers they found that Eisendrath
had bought II. and the trail led them to
the garage.
Heyl was not there at the time. but
when he appeared at the garage and
learned the police were looking for him
he gave himself up TO the detectives
Heyl has been In the employ Of Or.
Richard Blum. of No. go West oath
street. Several days ago the doctors
car was sent 20 a garage for repairs
and Mr.. Eisendrath. who lives in the
same house. offered his car TO the doc
tor for temporary use. The offer was
accepted and Heyl was driving Eisen-
drath's car on the night OF the killing.
He had gone to the architects Offices TO
get Eisendrath. and was on the way up
town along West End avenue.
Heyl told the police that in front OF
No. II West End avenue he turned out
for a truck, and as ne swung back into
the road he struck something" Mr..
Eisendrath heard a noise OF falling glass
and spoke to Heyl, who remarked that
he guessed one OF the kids had thrown
garage, Heyl said he found that one Of
the lamps was broken and the fixtures
were badly twisted. He told the police
he had no idea what he had struck. Mr.
Eisendrath's story agreed with that OF
the chauffeur. and !he architect told
the police that al the time mentioned
the car was not running faster than nine
or ten miles an hour.
Although DR. Blum. Heyl's employer,
discharged him Saturday night he denied
to the police that he suspected tho
chauffeur had anything TO do with the
killing Of Fay. He said he discharged
the man simply because he was negll-
gent In the middle Of the story which
EisenGrath was telling the police after
he had been brought into the station,
two lawyers rushed in and shouted TO
the architect to shut. up." He obeyed,
and was thereupon locked up in a cell
for the night
Mr.. Eisendrath was released late last
night In 5000 bail, which was furnished
by Richard Frcund. OF No. 230 West 9th
street, and George II. Schuman. of No
1890 Madison avenue The bail bond
vas signed by Coroner Hellentsein. The
architect and chauffeur will be arraigned
in the Coroner's Court this morning
The funeral of the Fay child was held
yesterday afternoon at the Church Of
st. Paul the Apostle, and was attended
Ly 100 playmates from the parish school
where he was a pupil.