New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-13
SPEEDING AUTO
HTS TWO GIRLS,
. BOTH WILL DIE
Chauffeur for Milliner,
/. Accused by Police OF
Drunkenness, Held.
HURLED FROM CYCLE,
MAN is KILLED
Princeton Sophomore, Thrown
from Car as 1t Skids on
Curve, Has Neck Broken.

After running down two girls and
iaAiet!ag injuries which arc expected
20 result fatally, an automobile owned
and occupied BY Thomas Crosby, mil
liner, with oaices a. 5 West Thirty
keventh Street AID a home at Ruther-
k1ord, y. j. vee-ed into a trolley car
and overturned at Fo-ty-second Street
aid Tenth Avenue last night.
The pol.de arrested the chauffeur on
charge Of being intoxicated while
,drivinc the car, and with felonious as
issult, and they say the accident ended
a wild Joy party
C.osby's machine is a high powered
touring car Of the low racing type. It
was being driven toward the ferry at
West Forty-second Street, twenty-five
feet behind the machine o. Crosby 5
brother, J. Spencer Crosby. Of Sea Cliff,
in which was the owner, his wife and
sister-in-law, Mss Helen Opel.
The roar Of the machines as they
tore toward Tenth Avenue through
,Eorty-seeond Street brought Thomas
hynch, Of 7OS Tenth Avenue, TO the
door Of his saloon on the corner. The
cars according 70 Lynch, were trav-
cling at fifty miles On hour.
Lynch said the cars had crossed the
avenue, when Miss Jennie Davidson,
nineteen years old. and Gertrude Lye,
nineteen, both Of 544 West Forty-sixth
street, stepped of the curb. There
was not q signal 70 warn the girls as
Nhe machines bore down upon them.
Thomas Crosbys automobile struck
them full and they were thrown twenty
feet, Miss Davidson landing against
the curb and her companion on the
sidewalk.
After the accident Charles J. Cap
per, of Richmond Hill. Long Island, the
chauffeur, veered the machine sharply
70 the left, and II crashed into the
centre Of q Forty Street cross
town car. Capper and Crosby were
thrown 70 the roadway a. the machine,
after tearing q big hole in the side Of
the car, rebounded and overturned.
Lynch and severa. others carried the
unconscious girls into his saloon as
Patrolman Brennan sent IN call for
assistance TO hold n check crowd
who were Threatening to XII Crosby
anu MS NlldNlAt -NN4t44Nl VI 'SN Nll
received serious injury and took refuge
IN ]. Spencer Crosby's car.
At Bellevue Hospital il was found
that the internal injuries received by
Miss Davidson would probably cause
her death. Little hope IS held out
for the Lye girl.
Pstroiman Brennan took the Crosby
party to the West Forty-seventh Street
station and Lieutenant Fry called Dr..
Eechtig from the Polytechnic Hospital
20 examine Capper. The doctor told
the lieutenant there was evidence that
Cspper had been drinking. The chauf-
feur was then charged with intoxica-
sion. which, when charged against a
chauffeur Of an automobile, IS felony.
The Crosbys were freed.
George Lent, OF a7e East Eighth
Street, Brooklyn, was thrown from the
passenger carrier Of a motorcycle last
night a. Ocean Parkway snd Avenue
" Coney Island and killed.
Isidor Moskivltz, OF 10 ST. Marx
Place, Manhattan. called, with his mo-
torcycle, for George Lent and ms
brother, DAVID, al their home 20 take
them 10 Coney Island On the return
trip he collded with q tree. and all
were thrown George Lentz's skull
was fractured. The others received
cuts and bruises and were taAen to
Coney Island Hospital. George Lent
was twenty years old and clerk.