New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-20
AUTOIs1, SLAYER
OIL. RAILROAD
GATEMAN, GUILTY
N II. Conroy To Be Sen
a., fenced for Second Degree
Manslaughter Monday.
ROY DEAD, PROFESSOR
INJURED IN CRASHES
p,ofessor Bishop Struck While
batting Chains on His Machine
nm Central Park West.

u.-;r II. Conroy, of $40 Eighth
s.,..t Brooklyn, was found guilty of
m,,slaughter in the second degree by
;u,v in the Queens County Court yes
- Conroy was charged with
W, ss;3g the death of a Long Island
ps;irosd gsteman bv running him down
,.;,b an automobile on September at
w. Hampstead Turnpike crossing.
This is the first automobile convic-
80 ~ this nature in Queens County.
co On will be sentenced Monday. The
;nrv recommended clemency.
number Of automobiles We're
.,ncbsd up at the crossing when Cor
Vs. came along. lie said the gates
rs,s not lowered, and he saw nothing
% indicate that a train was approach
w His speed was only fifteen miles
.n hour. he testified. The gates were
slowlv dropping when he headed his
car toward the tracks.
John T. Joyce, the gateman, suddenly
,nrang in front of the machine, which
rsn him down. Conroy not having time
20 stop his car. Thomas Daily, of the
brooklyn Baseball Club; Edward +.
BlebI. Harry De Haven and John j.
farrell. all of whom were in the auto
mobile. corroborsted Conroy.
witnesses for the prosecution tesu-
ssS that Conroy's machine was making
iorty miles an hour when the car hit
Joyce The fagman was tossed thirty
feet and was getting up when he was
struck a second time. He died an hour
later.
~ have paid Joyce's widow $500,
and have not ridden in an automobile
since the accident. | did all | could;
eould not restore the unfortunate vic
tim 10 life. | was not careless. The
accident was unavoidable and | did
everything | could to save him.
Held for Manslaughter.
John Gill, the fourteen-year-old son
OF waiter, living at pa East Forty
ninth Street. was run down by limou-
sine at Broadway and Forty-ninth
Street early last evening. lie died at
Polyclinic Hospital. Russell Linstreet
Of is West Sixty-fourth Street, chauf-
feur of the machine, which is owned
BY the Plaza Motor Company, was held
on a charge of homicide.
The boy had been lettering. with two
at the entrance to
where his father is en-
ployed. Still thinking about the caba-
ret. he had started TO run home to sup
per when hit. Witnesses exonerated
he chauffeur.
Harry Dunn. fifty. of 1913 Faile Street,
The Bronx, died in Lincoln Hospital
yesterday from injuries received two
laws ago from an automobile driven by
Frank Demarest, Of 1902 Garrison Ave
hue. who is under $4,000 bail. Mrs.
Charles Blum. of 297 West 126th
Street, who first gave her name as Miss
Rose Miller and who was injured in
he same accident, is in the same hos
Dital in a critical condition.
Professor Bishop Badly Hurt.
Granville Bishop. forty-three years
bid, Of % Post Avenue. superintendent
Of the New York Law School, was
taken 70 Roosevelt Hospital suffering
from serious injuries sustained when
struck by an automobile at Central
Park West and Seventy-hfth Street,
last night.
Professor Bishops automobile was
skidding as he rode down Central Park
West. At Seventy-fifth Street he
stopped 10 adjust chains to the wheels.
As he was bending over an automobile