New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-12
BATTLES IN TAXI; LIES
ALL DAY UNCONSCIOUS
Oil Company, Promoter in SerI-
GUS Condition After Clash with
Restaurant Owners Son.
WOMAN AND 3 ARRESTED
Young Man Held and Others
Who Were in All. Night Party
on Way to Coney ISL
and Discharged.

Four men and a chorus girl were the
principal figures In fight in taxicab
in Broadway early yesterday that sent
Henry T. Mount. an oil company pro-
moter to 81. Vincents Hospital, where
! he is still unconscious. George Schmidt
! son Of the owner OF the Kaiser Raths-
keller, in i2d street. was arrested and
held to await the result Of Mounts in
jurics.
Eusavia Calzedo a Mexican who lives
at the WaldorfAstorla Hotel; Nolan
Stewart Won Publ. ranch owner, Of
Tampico. Mexico. who is stopping at the
Anscnla, and Myrtle Morton. the chorus
girl, Of No. 3i5 West 50th street. were
discharged by Magistrate Breen in the
jefferson Market court. after being sub
ppnaed to appear this morning as ma
terial witnesses. They were arrested with
Schmidt by reason OF the fight.
Ernst II. Wallace. attorney for Miss
Morton. last night gave what he said was
q truthful account OF the circumstances
leading up to the taxicab ride and the
scrimnege that left Mount lying sense
less on the sidewalk at Fifth avenue and
Sth street. He said that Calzedo, who
has known Miss Morton for some time.
invited ner TO supper early Thursday
evening. They were accompanied by Won
Publ. The party went into several re-
sorts along Broadway. and at one picked
Up Mount. whom they had known in
Mexico
Joins Party Uninvited.
Mount, Calzedo, Won Publ and the woman
were at A table. when. the lawyer said.
George Schmidt Joined them. unlimited.
Mr.. Wallace said Miss Morton admitted
having known Schmidt, but her compan-
ions resented his presence at their table
and asked him 10 leave.
Schmidt refused, Wallace said, and per-
sisted in going along when the party left
the restaurant to 20 to Coney Island
The four men and the woman entered a
taxlcab and first took a ride through Cen
trail Park. The park ride. Wallace said.
was one continued remonstrance with
Schmidt, who was repeatedly urged 10
get out
The quarrel had become boisterous by
the time the taxicab reached Fifth ave-
nue. and sth street en- the way TO Coney
Island. The driver stopped the vehicle at
the curb and the men and the woman
piled out on the sidewalk, where the men
renewed the wrangle.
What happened then has not been made
clear, as Mount has not been able 10
make a statement and the others have re-
fused By the advice of counsel TO ex-
plain the affair on the sidewalk. One told
the police, however, that Schmidt and
Mount took hold Of each other and
struggle followed, In which Mount was
either pushed struck or slipped and fell,
striking his head on the taxicab step or
on the curb
Sehmidt's only statement TO the police
vas that Mount staggered and fell. strik-
ing his head on the step Of the vehicle.
Womsn's Screams Bring Police.
IL was Miss Mortons screams that
brought policemen from the Mercer street
station. Won Publ and Calzedo were
standing few feet away from Mount.
while the young woman was on her knees
beside Mount. waving her arms. Schmidt
ran into the arms OF Policeman Hahn as
he fed eastward in 9th street
All Of the taxicab passengers were ar
rested and taken to the Mercer street sta
ton, except Mount, who was taken TO
ST Vincents Hospital At the police sta e
ton one OF the party gave Mounts name
as Fritz c. Waltz. OF the Hotel Belle
claire. which is Mounts true address.
The manager OF the Hotel Belleclaire
last night said Mount had been patron
OF the hotel on many different occasions,
and on his last visit had been there for
ten months. Little wa known OF his
business other than il was understood
among hts acquaintance at the hotel that
he was interested in the oil business in
Texas and New Mexico. Won Publ and
Calzedo could not be located last night.
At st. Vincents Hospital late last night
II was said Mount was still unconscious
but in no immediate danger. The pny-
sleIans have not determined whether he
is suffering from a fracture OF the skull
! or conclusion OF the brain.
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