New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-02
BROADWAY JOINS CHASE
AFTER STOLEN HORSE
Sunday Night Crowds Get a
Thrill in Pursuit of Coupe
by TaxiCab.
POLICE WIN FAST RACE
Commander Automobile, Defy
Speed Rules and Force Boy
Driver of Another's Ami
NAL to Stop.

THAT part OF Broadway where the
lights shine brightest and where the
crowds like to roam after the theatres
are out was thrown into excitement
last night by a reckless race between
2 stolen coupe and taXicab COM
Wandered by two detectives. Dodg-
ing trolley cars and pedestrians. mar
rowly averting collisions with other
automobiles, the coupe and taXicab
raced from 42d to j1st street.
At 51st street the chauffeur. under
orders of the detectives, ran his car
directly across the path of the coupe.
The driver of the horse. who had been
standing up i'm his seat flashing the ami
NAL seeing he was blocked, ieaped TO
the street and dashed down Seventh
avenue to 10th street, where he was
persuaded to stop only after the de-
tectiyes had threatened TO shoot to kill.
The man in the coupe, John Coffey,
known TO the police as "The Philadel-
rbia Kid" is said to have a criminal
record. At the time of his arrest last
night the police were searching for him.
Coffev. who said he was eighteen. gave
his address as Mills Hotel No. 3. He
was locked up on charge of grand
larceny
According to the police. Coffey was
hanging about the 42d street entrance
IN the Grand Central Station about
1880 o'clock when he saw a coupe
standing near the curb. The driver,
lanes Sheridan, of No. 211 East F3th
street. was not in sight and Corey
jumped into the seat and gave the
horse a cut with the whip.
As the frightened animal dashed
west on 42d street. Sheridan made his
appearance and set up shout of stop
thief" Instantly the cry was taken
up by others and the chase began. by
the time the coupe had reached Broad
way. the pursuing crowd had increased
10 several hundred. with Sheridan
putting in the van, too winded to shout
again.
Leaning over the top of the coupe, the
driver dashed the horse and urged it to
greater speed. He made the turn into
Broadway on one wheel and just grazed
surface car.
Standing on the corner were De-
tectives Denice and Slattery. of the
West 47th street station. They jumped
into taxicab and ordered the chauf-
feur 10 follow the coupe. BY this time
Coffey had clear lead of three blocks.
AS the horse dashed up Broadway
the coupe, swaying from side to side,
the Jersey and the Bronx Sunday night
visitors to Manhattan, who had been
looking at the giant electric chariot
race that is flashed nightly on an iron
griiwork advertisement little further
down Broadway, heard the racket and
rushed to the scene, viewing, as 1t were,
the figures of fire transformed into
flesh and blood-a true Ben Hur
stunt" in Broadway.
The horse, seemingly inspired by the
shouts. added to his speed. Finally the
chauffeur of the Communicated auto
mobile shot his car across the path OF
the coupe. Coffey brought the horse up
short and jumped to the ground. He
darted down Seventh avenue, and got
as far as 49th street, when Denice drew
mis- revolver and called upon him to
aalt Coffey thought this good advice
and stopped. He had no remarks to
make as he was escorted to the station