New-York tribune., 1920-12-20
Driver
Held as Slayer
OF Campbell
Theodore Busch Is Accused
of Striking Broker After
Collision Between His
Vehicle and Automobile
Prisoner Denies Charge
Says Another Man Struck
Blow; Two Women Claim
Machine of the Victim

Theodore Busch, Of 754 Tenth Ave-
nue., was arrested last night on a
technical charge Of homicide in con-
nection with the death of Arlo P.
Campbell, an insurance broker Of 400
Riverside Drive, who was found last
Thursday at Third Avenue and Twenty
fifth Street suffering of fractured
skull and who died soon after being
taken to the hospital. According to the
police, Busch became engaged in an
alteration with Campbell and struck
the broker, inficting fatal injuries.
Busch, who is twenty-five years old,
has been employed by the Franco
American Bakery, 500 West Thirty
eighth Street, Detective Meyers, Of the
East Twenty second Street station. saws
Busch told him ne had trouble with
Campbell on the morning the broker
was found unconscious. According to
the detective, Busch says he was driv-
ing wagon east through Twenty fifth
Street to Third Avenue when Campbell,
who was going north along the same
avenue at high speed, swerved out from
behlnd the wagon and ran his car into
an elevated pillar, damaging the steer
ing gear and mud guards.
According to Detective Meyers Busch
SAID there was a woman in Campbell's
automobile, and she took part in the
alteration that resulted from the ac-
cident, and that Campbell got out and
seized the horses bride. The detective
says tnat Busch declares q man stepped
out Of the crowd that had collected and
struck Campbell with his fist, sending
the broker in heap to the sidewalk.
Busch said he then jumped into his
wagon and drove off He said the af-
fair took place at $3.50 o'clock in the
morning. Campbell was found short
time later by a patrolman from tho
East Twenty second Street station and
was sent to Bellevue
Detective Meyers says he arrested
busch Friday on e charge of felo9ious
assault, and yesterday had BuscI{ re-
arrested on a technical charge of itomi-
eide. Busch was held in 81 900 bail on
the felonious assault charge by .Magis-
trate Joseph Schwab in the Yorkvire
court yesterday.
Campbell's car was taken to the
Madison Square Garage, in East Twen-
ty-fourth Street, by the police and was
claimed by his wife. An hour or two
after Mrs. Campbell had taken the
machine it was reported to the police
that different woman, who identified
herself as Mrs Campbell, called at the
garage for the car, and, on learning
that it had been claimed, hurriedly de-
parted.
An autopsy was performed on the
body Of Campbell at the Campbell Fu-
neral Parlors, Sixty-sixth Street and
Broadway, yesterday by Chief Medical
Examiner Charles Norris and DR.. Ben
jamin A. Schwartz, his assistant. The
autopsy was witnessed by Dr. Andrew
J. Love, Of 521 West 142d Street,
Campbells family physician, and also
by q medical representative of an in
surance company in which the broker
was insured.
Dr.. Norris said death was due to a
fracture of the skull. The fracture
was circular in character and extended
across the base Of the skull, indicating
that blow or fall had caused it. Also
a rupture Of blood vessel under the
left temple evidently had caused a pro
fuse hemorrhage. DR.. Norris said if
the fracture had been due to fall,
there would be some evidence of a cut,
or abrasion Of the skin, which is absent
in Campbell's case. He ordered that
the original death certificate, which
said death had resulted from an auto
mobile accident be revoked