New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
SPEED MANIA LANDS
B|NNEY TWICE IN COURT
| awyer Pays Two Fines in
Harlem and Is Held in
Jefferson Market.
DENIES HE'S RECKLESS
uas Driven 10000 Miles and
Has Yet to Kill a Chicken"
He Says-Magistrates
Skeptical.

r1s-ol5 oswald Binney. who converted
r,-,odvav Fifth avenue, 42d street and
- thoroughfares into a racetrack
carly ore morning in Christmas week
WAS in court again yesterday-in two
,,,,rts 20 he eXact-charged with vio-
,.,ir, the automobile laws in three par
.l.rrars Mr.. Binney had hardly left
t1orror, court. where he paid fines for
s,oeding and cutting out his mutfler
~, he was taken TO jefferson Market
court and held for examination Tuesday
for speeding and ignoring traffic regula-
tons.
In Harlem court Motorcycle Patrolman
robn Howe. OF Traffic Squad c. said he
saw Binney going up Fifth avenue past
aotb street last Wednesday night at high
sDeed and with the eXhausts cracking
and roaring. Howe caught the Rector
street lawyer at 18th street and instructed
him to appear IN court Thursday morn
ing
Mr.. Blnney dill not show up that day
SO MAGISTRATE appleton issued warrant
for his arrest. In the mean time MT.
Rinney appeared yesterday morning OF
his own accord. knowing nothing ABOUT
the warrant. lie said he had telephoneu
on Thursday that he was I'll at the Hotel
p,eslin A court attendant confirmed
his so the warrant was cancelled.
c. for as IN, speeding charge was con-
,srna6 Mr.. Finney said he was driving
csrefuIlv and that therefore the twenty
,,r-r,,les-anhour rate the policeman
rs0 testified he was going was not Il
legal &c. o.
borse,over racers down to S-hen power
rnrabouts more than twenty thousand
niles in al. I guess. and I've yet to XII
,,. first chicken, even on country
road " SAT- Mr.. Binney, stoutly.
The MAGISTRATE. however, was oodurate
and enee the lawyer $40, which he pa'd
,,rder a strenuous protest The automo-
b,ye, kraw that the law prohibited IN
,,eosseav noises on automobiles, but ne
} ;,s,e.si II was necessary for him to re-
,,,,yo Ms mufier that night, as his norm
nos dlt of order. Magistrate Appleton
,orId no, see il that way, and Mr.. Bin
nov nait another SO, and again he pro
tested.
MIR Binney, if you ever come before
ms sgan charged with going more thah
event. miles an hour, and with having
,.o,r muller cut out. and the evidence
,ro,f Won are guilty, I'll send you TO the
,,o~house. and you can make test
,,se n all the courts in the world II
49,, so desire" emphatically said Magis
,rte Appleton.
snnev leaped TO his feet and cried
Ike exception to the remarks OF IN"
lurt and move they be stricken from the
ecord.'
His motion was granted, and the re-
marks we're stricken out. He walked
nrt NJ the courtroom to a large hmou
inc in which a young woman had been
waiting for him. Before he entered IT,
however PatTolman Cary, OF franc
Squad G.. arrested him for reckless drlV-
IN and breaking the traffic laws at Fli'h
avenue and 18th street, last Wednesday
the afternoon before he was arrested b.
Howe
Rrpnev sent away the Limousine and
went TO court .,.,-.,,
Assistant District Attorney Dickinson
called Kinney a menace TO human lie
and asked the court TO fix high bond. BIN
r., ranl.d that Mr. Dickinson's remarks
ysre "inpcrtinent and scandaious' ana
seksd an apology. which the assistant
Uis,rict Attorney refused TO make. Inc
magistrate fixed the bond at $"' anu WI
rtrnev sat down and waited until rep,
tentative Of a surety company appeaFeu
and fixed the matter up.