Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-06-16
Lieutenant William Calvin
Completes Investigation
Into Details of Accident
STATEMENTS SECURED
Officers William Buchan and
William Seiboth Thrown
Through Taxi Roof.
NO CHARGES EXPECTED
Taxicab Was Pursuing Flee
ing Ford When it Skidded
and Overturned

Events of last night have practi-
cally overshadowed the accident OF
yesterday morning. when Harry
Larson eighteen years old of Hope
lawn, was killed, and Patrolman
William Buchan and William Sci
both and Herbert Peterson, a taxi
driver were injured. The acci-
dent occurred at a sharp turn in
Woodbridge, while the taxi was pur
auing a Ford car which contained
two men who were detected strip
ping an automobile at Spa Springs.
Desk Lieutenant William Calvin
secured statements from a driver
of a bus who chased the Ford car.
previous to the taxi joining in the
race, and from Herbert Peterson,
the taxi driver, and officers Seiboth
and Buchan. The statements will
be presented to the mayor and
board of aldermen, but it is under
stood that no charges will be pre-
ferred against the men.
Officer Buchan is in the city hos
pital with a long cut encircling his
forehead, while Officer Seiboth went
to work this morning as police
chauffeur in Officers Buchan's
place.
The statements obtained by
Lieutenant Calvin follow:
Statement or Buchan
Statement made to Lieutenant
Calvin at City Hospital June 10. 1921,
at 9:35 A. NJ.
II was standing on, the corner of
Prospect and Smith streets abou.
1880 on the night of June IA, 1921.
Officer William Seiboth came along
in Burns Brothers taxicab looking
i ap1yn t,,n n q q
a ride out Amboy avenue, and. then
he said he would take me home. We
went out Amboy avenue to the other
side of Brace avenue when we saw
a Ford car speeding south on Am
boy avenue and a bus following.
They (Ford car and bus) turned
I'D Brace avenue and l said: There
is something wrong as the street is
torn up and they would not go that
fast if there was not" Then we
went after them We met the bus
driver between Amboy avenue and
Cornell street on Brace avenue. He
had stopped. We asked him what
was up. He said that the party In
the Ford car had held UP car and
stripped it.
"Officer William Seiboth told the
driver of the taxi we were in, to go
a1ter the L Oru Car. VIC ShdSCo lhN ~
out Brace avenue to Hopelawn and
met a man, did not know his name.
and asked him which way the Ford
car had gone. He jumped on our
car and said the car had gone out
this way. pointing to the northwest.
We kept following until we came
close to the cemetery and Wood
bridge road in Woodbridge. We blew
bur whistles and officer William Sci
both fred two shots. We were IN
sight of them when they turned a
corner into another street. We turn
ed the corner after them and our
taxi upset. We were all injured and
the noise of the accident woke the
neighborhood up and the people
yathered around. Some of the peo-
ole called up Woodbridge police and
hey came with their ambulance and
brought US to the Perth Amboy CITY
Hospital.
Statement of Montecalyo
John Montecalvo, of Port Reading
Y. j., June Is. 1921, at 314 Water
street, Perth Amboy, n. j., at 1920
2. NJ. said:
"At about 1880 A. NJ. on the
morning of June Is, 1921, as l was
,oming from Carteret to Perth Am
boy. near Spa Springs. I saw two
Ford cars laying alongside the road
I turned our lights on them and saw
two men, one of them was out or
the ground and the other was in one
of the cars at the wheel. When
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