New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-15
DEATH JOKE
IS FATAL CRASH
Chorus Girl Laughing
When Killed-Seven Hurt
as Autos Collide.
TWO REALTY BROKERS
HELD FOR HOMIClDES
Women in Machines Wrecked on
Pelham Parkway After Wild
Nicht Rides.

Two automobile parties in one car
two chorus girls and In the other two
mattresses ended shortly after
o'clock Yesterday morning. when the
two autos met. One Of The chorus girls
and man who vas with her arc dead
seven others were hurt, and the drivers
Of the machines. both real estate
brokers. are held by the Coroner on
4 charge OF homicide.
The dead are:
BROW ida 'BobNiel. twenty years Oh Winter
f,s-fe7 chorus ~. whose hone % '0 SYRACUSE
al who hsi De,n "syinE al 2's West Ni0'y-
pfsi'MAR Wa,,-. ,hi-y four yea, Old. cl''s. Of
$50 Wo, 1880 street
The injured:
MARSHALL Chsst.r r-.l r-'a'. hro .5' 80 -.
i've, Win rs. VIE q dAuEh'sr al ~ Hoe -,
George. Brooklyn. Cou'uSor' ~ ine 1',E ano
shock lie IL a prso.e.. charged WIN t'il, r.
HIST. Dcro>hy . dsneins partner o. Mis- br9Nn
al living A. The same address Genera 'fA'e'
GfEtHIiELD. william. realty broker. q s's
Intervals Avenue Curiusiots snd ls'ers''"''.
~Iih uos.fle internal INJURIES Hr IS prisoner
o. me san. charge a. ;bsi 'oised against Mar
IAN Greer selI being me driver q Tie other car
RAo Jsia,. O, Of ss7 SIKH street BROOKLYN. who
50 Grcsuas'd's car Genera. c0riu'i ,..
MyZZi. Tony, twenty seven years "a. o., = ANS
street Broken arm ard senera. bruises $50 IN
the Greenfield ca
SMITH, Rose twenty yesrs old waitress h-iis,,
ir,d a. ~ Esst Eighteenth street an we're
companies o. 'hc men 90 Gree heids car
Miss Brown and Miss Hunt Joined
"Tbe Passing Show Of 1915 last
Wednesday. After the Performance on
Monday night they met Marshall. hey
entered his high powered auto Of the
low racing type. Miss Hunt sitting IN
the seat alongside Of Marshall and her
coropanion sitting in one Of the two
chairs on the right running board:
The party. according TO Miss Hunt,
went TO Delmar's home, reaching there
about midnight. and Marshall aroused
Delmar. who had retired. After snort
wait Delmar took his place IN the cnalr
on the running board nezc to the one
occunied bv Miss Brown. The Marshall
machine went 70 the Pell Tree Inn IN
Pelham. where supper was eaten. Miss
Hunt insists that no drinks were served.
Marshall refuses 20 talk The party
left tho inn at Z:3O Yesterday morning.
Rao. Nuzzi and Greenfield, according
~ the story told by Rao, had gone 70
Staten Island for dinner. Rao was IN
his own car, and the others were IN
Greenfcld's car They returned to the
city. and according TO Rao. they flr'cd
with Miss Smith and Miss Byrne Rao
then put up his car and got into Green
fields.
What the party did, or where they
stoned. the men and women refuse 10
state. but a. few minutes AFTER
o'clock in the morning, the big 40
horsepower Greenfield car was dashlng
along at forty miles an hour west on
Pelham Parkway.
The Marshall car, Il svelling at about
the same speed. was proceeding east
The party was laughing al Delmcr, who
had lust been told by Miss Brown 4
nut roses on her casket. after he had
commented on her cough. when Mar
shall. as the car approached tastchester
Road. said:
"That looks like the shadow Of an
automobile"
A second later. Miss Hunt says. there
was a terrific crash. She was thrown
bipb In the air, as was Marshall, and
lost consciousness. The cars came TO
pether head on. The impact was so
great that Marshall's low car was spun
completely around before upsetting,
mining Delmar and the Brown glri
under il. The other car swung nan
way round and shot back over thirty
feet before il settled. All the occu-
pants Of the car were thrown 20 the
roadway.
Miss Hunts screams and those OF the
other women attracted passing aulo
mobiles. The Marshall car was ralse1
and Delmar and Miss Brown released
Placed in one Of the cars, they were
rushed to Fordham Hospital. where l.
was found that Miss Brown had met IN
slant death her neck having been
broken. Delmar died before he couIa
be carried 10 the operating table from
fractured skull and internal INJURIES
Ambulance surgeons removed W
others 10 the hospital Coroner Healy
nlaced all under arrest, Greenfield and
Marshall charged with homicide ana
the others as material witnesses. Miss
Hunt and Rao then told their stories
A, the Hotel St. George Mrs Mar
sbou stated that her husband had not
reformed from business on Monday, and
she was greatly surprised when she
learned Of the accident