The evening world., 1913-12-22
WANDERED IN PARK
ALL NIGHT AFTER
KILLED GIRL
SEnufeur Who Went Over
fIN6idge With Machine Sur-
renders to Police.
Ec3 HB WAS DAzED.
MY Of Four Out for a Night
When Machine Took a
Terrible Plunge.
HD HE WAS DAZED.

- che morning through Central Park,
he mind dazsd from the shock Of the
antnu,obils accident which sent his car
opeP . parapet In Central Park last
nshs and caused the death Of Miss
Tesste Fitzgerald. one Of its occupants.
Patrick J. Mccormick. a young demon
strator for Carl II. Page & Co.. Broad
way and Fiftieth street, walked into
the West Sixty-eighth stree salon ohis
afternoon and surrendered himself.
Miss Frances Lyman and Frederick
Dumont who. with the others. had COM
posed tho automobile party, had told
Detective Bresnan that Mccormick had
risen from tho ground to which he was
dung by the shock of the accident. and
staggered away into the darkness. lie
had seemed TO be covered with blood.
but they. half senseless. had made no
effort to stop him. In the belief that he
had died somewhere in the Park. Bres.
nan and McCormick's young wife hal
never happened upon tho young man.
Mccormick was arraigned before Cor
oner Holtzhauser. He said that some
thing must have gone wrong with the
steering gesr to cause the accident
and that after It no had wandered about
h a dare until this morning when his
faculties wede restored no visited q
doctor. Thsn he went at once to the
station. He was paroled until Monday.
when the inquest will be hold In custody
Of George Stowe. vlce-Pr esident OF the
auAemobile company. Mr.. Stowe said
Mccormick had first class reputation.
He lives at No 31l West Tirtieth
street.. and = Q friend Of young Dumont,
who b . soda water bother. and lives
usxs door TO Miss Lyman to whom he 10
anngsd
olRL VICTIM WAS ON A CHRIST.
MAS VACATION.
11us Estaserald. . somewhat older
g1rl than Miss Lyman, who - only
twsnty-two. was employed In the
westchestAr Military Academy at
PseleskilL She had met Miss Lyman
when both were waitressss in the Au-
sable Club in the Adirondack last
summer and accepted the younger
girl's Invitation to spend her Christ
mas vacation with her.
She came to New York Saturday night.
and last night the girls and young
Dumont went for . walk In Central
Park. At Columbus Circle Mccormick
drove by In his car and shouted to
Dumont. Then he stopped and invited
oil hands for a ride. Dumont and Miss
Lyman got in the tonneau. Miss Fits.
gerald took a seat beside Mccormick.
The chauffeur drove the m up the West
Drive and was returning along tho East
Drive. The car approached bridge No.
. at One Hundred and Seventh street.
which spans Lovers Walk" twenty feet
below. The road was slippery with an
ooze which the unusually warm weather
had brought to the surface. and the car
skidded. shot across the road. struck
I Q sidewa.l Of the rock. mounted It and
hung for an instant on the peak. then
toppled into the ravine.
INJURED CHAUFFEUR GETS UP
AND sTAGGERs AWAY.
All were thrown out except Miss
Fitzgerald. who was TANNED between
the car and tho rocks. Her head was
crushed In and she WAS killed instant
~. A few persons saw the accident and
some one blew a police whistle. which
brought Policeman Wooley OF tho Arse
nal station BY the time he arrived
Mccormick h d risen and staggered
away. A motorist took Dumont and
i Miss Lyman to the Mount Sinai Hos.
/, pital, where both were found to be SUI.
fsrlng from outs and bruises. In add.
ton Dumont's back was sprained ant
Miss Lyman's right Log was so sprained
ct no hip and knee that she ooult
scarcely walk. Both insisted on goins
% their homes. however. after they had
been treated. Miss Fitzgerald's bod,
was taken to the station.
Little 10 known of Miss Fitzgerald
except that she was an orphan and hel
only relative was brother, John w
Fitzgerald, living In Morgan. Va. II.
b was notified by telegraph. He was &C
customed to send his sister SEQ eacl
year for a Christmas present, and sh,
had the gold pie, In her pocket whei
che was killed.