The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-12-30
AUTO IN CRASH
WITH L" Pillar;
THREE ARE HURT
Chauffeur Takes Friends for
Joy Ride at Sixty Miles
an Hour Speed.
CAR A TOTAL LOSS.
Passengers Thrown Fifty Feet
-Wrecking Crew Removes
Debris From Tracks.
CAR A TOTAL LOSS.

Trevor. . real estate dealer living at
No. y East Fifty-sscond street. 10 a
twisted mas Of junk a. the result Of a
10Y ride on which Mr.. Trsvor's twenty.
two-ysar-old chauffeur. James Mopre.
took three friends.
The big car. to escape q policeman
who was shooting In the air and blowing
his whistle. was scnt south on Third
avenue early to-day At about sixty miles
an hour until II ran into an elevated
Dinar between Fifty.nrst and Fiftie,h
streets.
An instant later the chauffeur lay on
the pavement nifty feet from tho wreck.
Of the machine. Another limp figure lay
forty feet away and two men who had
been riding inside the car were held fast
In the broken glass OF the Limousine, a.
though they were In an old fashioned
pillory.
A Metropolitan wrecking crew had to
lit the defunct automobile from the
south-bound trolley track with a derrick
before traffic could be resumed on that
Ice reserves and ambulance doctors were
kept on the jump.
The car Was kept In the Monmouth
Garage. Fifty.fourth street and Lexiny-
ton avenue. Moore. the chauffeur, was
known there and was permitted to have
the machine when he called for II at
! o'clock In the morning. saying he
would have TO make . trip to Sou thsmp-
ton. L. l.. whore M Trevor mas . sum.
msr home.
PAsses FIXED POST At IS MILES
AN HOUR.
Where Moore. with the car. spent the
Intervening time the police have not yet
learned. but the next seen Of him ke
was coming down Third avenue. The
car shot past Fifty-ninth street. where
ssrgt. Smythe WAS standing. At the rate.
he says. Of from forty to forty-tivs miles
an hour
Tho sergeant yelled At the chaufi sur
TO halt. but the only response was an
incrssse In speed.
The nexs fixed post II at Fifty.seventh
street Patrolman Strautenberg was ON
duty there. lie saw the automobile COM
ing and blew his whistle franticaily.
| Al that tine the big Limousine. Strautsn-
berg declares. was making sixty miles
an hour.
| Patrolman Turk. at Fifty. fourth street.
heard the whistle and saw the machine
| advancing. lie. too. blew hiS whistle as
a signal for the chauffeur to halt. bu,
the sixty CLIP be says. was no,
abAtsd In the slightsst. IL anything
the policeman thinks. there WAS . burst
Of speed.
Turk drew his revolver and sho
twice In the air The revolver shot
were almost Immediately followed h!
the crash OF the machine against tn,
elevated pillar.
Sn,yrhs and Strautsnberg were com
Ing on the run. a. they had expects,
exactly ouch an accident. All thrs
policemen were At the scene OF tn
wreck Q moment after 1t occurred.
The chauffeur VAS thrown nifty feet.
said 6srgt smyths later. I'm no
guessing about that ! measured tn
distance from the pillar to the spe
where he lay. Frank Quinn. Who cal
he was forty one years old and that h
, lived at No. GA Lexington avenue. wa
!. thrown forty feet l don't see no
either of them escaped being killed. br
the chauffeur was only bruised an
: cut. Quinn had broken left leg"
. CAR sMAshGp INTO MASS o
STGEL AND WOOD.
Tho automobile had rebounded frol
! The pniar about twenty feet and the
aoppsd over ON the sld& There VI
nothing about Il lAft intact s1oApt u
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