New-York tribune., 1913-11-27
CRASH VICTIM WAS
BERTHOLD A. RICH
Young Man Hurt When
Denney Met Death Known
as a Broadway Spender.
CROWD VISITS
SCENE OF WRECK
Witness Tells Coroner Young
Mans Car Was Going Forty
five Miles an Hour.

II was learned last night by The Tribune
that the young man giving the name ot
Rertram G.. Rich, who was injured Iues-
day night in the automobile accident IN
Pelham Parkway in which Assembly
man Thomas p. Denney and three COM
nanions met death. was really Berthold
Rich. prominent along the White way
as a spender.
The crowd that gathered at the scene OF
the accident kept four patrolmen ana
sergeant of the West Chester ponce S'a-
tion busy during the day. for Few au'o''o-
bres passed the wrecked car without
stonping 10 take a look at the heap u
junk.
OF the five persons injured only one re-
rlained in Fordham Hospital YESTERDAY
afternoon. She was Mrs. Stella Nelson ol
No. l45 West Goth street who was III 'he
automobile which. it was said at pre-
uminary hearing by Coroner Shohsu' was
responsible for the accident.
In view of the testimony given OE
1osenb Flaum. an eyewitness Of the acci-
dent the Coroner held jeremiah Mahoney'
.bo chauffeur. in $1,000 bail, charged
with homicide Mahoney was called 10 t"e
stand 10 give his version OF the acclueh''
His face and head were bandaged' ana aS
no was suffering from the shock he was
excused
Flaurn. who was returning with party
from CITY Island, said that Mahoney was
soing about forty-fve miles an hour' h's
ttory corroborated that Of RchaTu hos-
,rs. a negro chauffeur, who was driNlhs
he car in which Denney was riding. hoe-
srs said there was plenty OF room Io'
uahonev 10 have passed both flauin
ar and that which he was driving. kog-
,rs said he was we'll to the right, and saw
Mahoney's car speeding down the I'a"
some distance behind Flaum. when SUD
denly it turned from Flaums automoDIe
tracks and ran into him. Rogers was the
nnly one in the car that was not killed
The impact demolished the automopiIe'
throwing the occupants seventy-hVe leeI
Assemblvman Denney was riding on the
seat beside Rogers. His head was 50
nadlv crushed that recognition was barely
possible. Denney was unmarried ana hVea
with q married sister at No. 2b3 W est
1l4.b street Those in the car with MN
who met a like fate were LEONARD Conn
Of No 800 West l16th street. president oi
the Rex Specially Company; Mrs. Fanh'e
Ioos Of No. 3OS West 9Sd street, and MISS
uelan Schaeffer of No. 269 West lloth
streat Cohn was married and lived win
his wife and mother-in-law at the west
1Istb street address. His place OF pusl-
nees is at No. 4 West SD street MIS-
Cohn. who is in Chicago, was informed
of the accident by her mother MITE
Joos was the wife Of Conrad Loos' man
accr Of the Palace Hotel. West ana
6,br;stonher streets. They had been sepa-
rated for the last fourteen years but Ie-
Gently effected a reconciliation. Accord
ing To Loos. they have three daushterS'
TWO of them in a sanatorium at OtlsVile'
Ny.
Miss schaerfer was a manicure. She Is
said TO have been married three years
ago 10 Harry Barnes, son of a police
lieutenant. and gained some notoriety at
the time by the annulment of the mar
riage.
Berthold A. Rich. whose domestic DIFF
fculties and legal entanglements were
aired in court several times, was one OF
the marty in the car driven by Mahoney
The others were William Morris, of No
1l1 Madison street, Brooklyn, q lawyer a
No. Rector street and Mrs. Stella Nel
son. of No AS West 65th street klch
when taken to the Fordham Hospital
gave his name as Bertram G. Rich. Las
night. however. IL was learned that n
was Berthold A. Rich, VINO inherited al
income Of Sl3. 0OO year from his father
who died when he was thirteen years ola
In December, 1910. Rich filed petition
in the Supreme Court saying that desir
for cash led him to pay Louis Cohen.
lawyer Of No. 3c2 Broadway. NI6l9 10
services which were not worth more thai
s2.On. The court ordered Cohen TO return
sl6.6l9.
Two years later Rich was divorced bl
Mrs. Daisy b. Rich, whom he married II
1902. She charged that after she left hin
in 1911. because Of a threat 10 Nil her
ne had spent $1,000 in TWO years on othel
women. She said his income was $1,000
year. Rich's LAWYER Dewitt Fox. who
is also his nephew, said Richs family
seldom saw him, and was unfriendly
toward him because of his extravaganza
The court granted Mrs Rich $50 a montl
alimony and the custody Of their child
Allan.
DR.. McSweeney. OF the Fordham Hospi
tai. who was called TO attend the injured
at the time Of the accident, and who wa,
arrested on complaint OF William Nor
ris. who said the physician punched him
was arraigned before Magistrate Apple
ton I'm the Westminster Court yesterday
but the hearing was postponed until Fri
dav. Morris was not in court. but was
represented by counsel Morris it is al
legged. interfered with DR.. McSweeney'
duties as physician, and DR.. McSwee
ney struck him.