New-York tribune., 1921-01-03
Man Dead From
Had Row
With Policeman
Carl Bosselmann Succumbs
to Fracture Of the Skull:
Friend Tells of Chase by
Patrolman After Dispute
Found ON Park Avenue
Son of Manufacturer Was
Staying at Commodore;
Investigation To Be Asked

Carl Bcsselmann, of Washington, D.
c., son of Andreas c. Bosselmann, of
312 West 1O9th Street, died from a
fracture of the skull yesterday at
Bellevue Hospital, where he had been
taken from Park Avenue ard Forty
sixth Street early in the morning after
DISPUTE with patrolman.
According to Thomas j. McManus, of
504 East Eighty-fourth Street, who was
with Bosselmann when the encounter
with the patrolman occurred, the last
he saw of his friend he was in full
fight down Park Avenue, with the
patrolman in pursuit
Both RIcManus and Bosselmann were
staying at the Hotel Commodore. They
had been drinking Saturday night and
were on their way back to the hotel
when they met the patrolman. That
was on Park Avenue, near Fiftieth
Street, McManus said.
Resented Patrolman's Tone
The patrolman, McManus continued
in the story he told to detectives of
the East Fifty-hrst Street police sta
ton, ordered them to move on" Bos-
selmann, his friend said, objected to
tho tone used by the patrolman, and
in the course of the argument which
started took off his coat and hat and
gave them to McManus to hold.
According to the police, McManus
told them that in q moment Bossel-
mann was running away with the
patrolman after him, heading south
McManus walked to tho Comm odore
saying, according to the police, that he
expected to find that Bosselmann had
arrived there before him.
When McManus heard that man
had been found unconscious on Park
Avenue and taken to Bellevue Hospital,
his first thought was to protect his
friend and his family from publicity,
and he said that his companion on the
New Years ght tour Of the city was
Robert H. Clark, Of Chicago, a state
ment which led to false identifca-
ton Of Bosselmann'5 body at the
morgue later.
At the home of the young mans father
no one who would permit his name
to be used would discuss the case, but
several persons there declared that it
was the intention of the family to de-
mand thorough Investigation Of
young Rosse,mann's death.
Found Lying on Sidewalk
Patrolman Walter Walsh, who had
the post at Forty-seventh Street and
Park Avenue and called the ambulance
which took Bosselmann to the hospital,
has been ordered to report to the East
Fifty-frst Street police station to give
what additional inforwation he may
have as TO how the young man received
his injuries.
When he discovered him Walsh as
E.
the sidewalk and been hurt in that
way, the assumption being strength
ened by the discovery OF $500 in Bos-
selmann's pocket.
On reaching the police station Walsh
readily admitted, according to the de-
tectives who examined him, that he
was the patrolman whom Bossclmana
had met. Bosselmann. he said, were
neither coat nor overcoat, and began
TO shout at him as soon as he caught
sight Of the police uniform.
Walsh said that he said nothing
whatever to Bosse mann and lost sight
Of him after viii G as he continued
his lproarious way down Park Avenue
A little later, he said, a man whose
name he did not ask, informed him
that man was lying on the sidewalk
on Park Avenue, near Forty sixth
Street.
1t was Bosselmann, Walsh found
He was lying with his head enc
shoulders on the sidewalk and his feet
on pile Of bricks. There was q
brick beside his head, near his temple
the patrolman said.
Bosselmann was twenty-five years
old, was graduated from Fordham Uni
versity and served in the Naval Reserve
during the war He was manager Of
the Washington branch Of his fathers
souvenir manufacturing business, the
home office of which is at l64 Fifth
Avenue. Funeral services will be held
at the Campbell Funeral Church al
10:3O a. m. Wednesday.