The New York herald., 1921-12-29
PRINCE IS RUN DOWN
BY FIRE CHIEFS CAR
ANDSERIOUSLY HURT
Half Brother of the King of
Spain Victim of Accident
ON Broadway.
EXPECTED TO RECOVER
Secretary Says Alfonso Was
Naturalized Hcre-Ruler's
Chaplain at Bedside.
EXPECTED TO RECOVER

A man described by his secretary as
Prince Alfonso Jerome de Bourbon, a
half-brother of the King OF Spain
who has been living at the Hotel
Grenoble. in Fifty-sixth street and
Seventh avenue under the name of
Louis Dunn. was knocked down by a
Fire Department automobile at Broad
way and Forty-flfth street yesterday
afternoon.
He was taken to the New York
Hospital, where it was said he had
suffered dislocated shoulder. a broken
jaw and internal injuries. He was Sc
riously hurt, but 1t was said early this
morning that he probably would re-
cover.
AS soon as the police were told that
the man was the Prince and the half
brother of the King of Spain they sent
for Mgr. Antonio Re. y Soto, personal
chaplain to King Alfonso, who Is in
this country arranging for the visit of
the sovereign, and asked him to iden-
tify him. Mgr. Soto said that he
could not; that he had never heard
that the King OF Spain had a half
brother through a norganatic or any
other marriage. He spoke to the
man in Spanish and was answered in
italian.
May Be Of Bcurbpn Family.
! "The naa has the features Of the
Bourbon fanny" the priest said, but I
have no knowledge OF him. Some time
ago there was a man in Madrid posing
as the half-brother OF the King. and he
| was exposed. but this is not the man.
| This man may be a member OF the
Bourbon family in Italy, You will note
that he spoke In Italian
! When Mgr. Soto went into the ward
where the injured man was lying on a
bed he asked in Spanish:
II am q priest Do you want me or
some other priest?''
The Prince turned and looked at him
but did not seem to recognize him.
mot to-day" he said "I shall want
| you Tomorrow"
/ James NJ. Murphy OF zoo West Sixty
seventh street, who said he was the
secretary Of Prince Alfonso. described
the injured man as the Prince and said
that he was a half brother OF the King
of Spain. This Identification was cor
| roboratcd by Charles Ferguson. q writer
on economic subjects who lives In the
National Arts Club. Mr. Ferguson said
that the Prince was friend of Gutzon
Borglum. the sculptor: Margaret Anglin
the actress. and other noted people.
THE Princes claim OF being a half
brother Of the King of SPAIN" said Mr..
Ia to1,< I,oa
nized by the Vatican. although he Is
persona non 0rota at the Spanish court.
lie is the son of the father Of the pres
ent King of Spain and French
countess"
In u. s. About n Year.
The address OF the Prince was given
first to the police as 1888 Fifth avenue
This Is the home OF Mrs. Bertha X.
Archibald. well known Englishwoman.
whose engagement to the Prince was
announced some time ago. but which
later was broken off by Mrs. Archibald.
She said last night that the Prince did
not live there. but had received some
natl there. which was the reason that
address was learned BY the police.
1t was published at the time of the
announcement of the engagement that
1, the Prince had become a naturalized
| American citizen and had taken the
Lame of Don Louis de Bourbon. His
secretary said. however. that the Prince
had been I'm this country only little
more than a year. Mr.. Ferguson said
that the Prince recently made a trip 20
Athens and Anatolia and other Balkan
states in the interest OF "a foreign ex-
change business with which he is asso-
ciated. In other circles II was said the
Prince was brought 10 the United states
when young by his foster mother Dona
| CiilSis, who died In New York year
ago.
The Prince was struck by the auto
mobile OF Assistant Fire Chief Joseph
u. Martin, driven by Fireman Harry
Gray The car was going north In
Broadway when the Prince stepped from
the curbing nosth of Forty-ffth street
and started to cross the street. He
walked into the path Of the car and
was knocked down. Patrolinan Jacob
Miller OF the West Forty-seventi street
station called an ambulance and sent
the man to the hospital. lie was re-
corded at the police station as being 80
years old. At the hospital he is under
the treatment Of Or. Samuel Erdman
OF 1874 East Sixty-fourth street.