The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-02
R. B. ROOSEVELT, JR.,
KILLED BY CITY BUS
Found Unconscious at 80th St.
and Columbus Avenue AZ
ter Woman Screams.
CHAUFFEUR is ARRESTED
Victim a Kin Of Theodore and
+. ID. Roosevelt-Wife and
Baby Also Are Survivors.

Robert B. Roosevelt, Jr.. died at .
o'clock yesterday morning in Knicker-
booker Hospital OF injuries received
soon after 10 o'clock Friday night,
vixen he was found insensIble near
the curb at the northwest corner OF
Eightieth street and Columbus ave-
nue..
Detectives from the West Sixty
eighth street station, after conduct
ing what for a time appeared to b.
fruitless ir' stigation, locked up
at 10:30 o'clock ct night David Zal-
kin, 27. chauffeur who owns and
operates a bus under tie supervision
of the Department of Plant and Struc-
lures. Zalkin was born in Russia, is
married and lives at 266 Keap sire Z.
Brooklyn. He is charged with honii-
eide
Detectives McGovern, Herman and
Harrigan, who worked on the cage
all day. said they had the greatest
difficulty in finding any witnesses at
all. They said, however, that they
had two witnesses, whose names were
withheld, who would appear in court
this morning against Zalkin.
Saw Wheel Pass over Body.
One OF these witnesses told the police
he was standing in Columbus avenue.
near Eighty-flrst street when he saw
Zalkin's bus coming north. He said he
did not see Roosevelt fall 10 the ground.
but that he did see the front wheel pass
over hts half PROSTATE body. He also
said he heard a woman waiting to board
the bus call out
my God. you've killed man n
Witnesses agree. according to the de-
tectives. that Zalkin drove on for 100
feet before he stopped the bus. Then he
ran back and entered the Original
lunch Room at $40 Columbus avenue.
into which Roosevelt had been carried.
That was 10 40 O'Clock A crowd had
collected. Witnesses say that Zalkin
pulled out a pad and pencil and began
taking the names OF everybody in the
restaurant. asking them IL they had no
ticed taxicab that was driving just in
front OF him.
According to the police. several wit
nesses agree that there was no taxicao
They are particularly anxious to find The
woman who cried out that a man had
been killed. Tho chief point that re-
mains 10 be cleared up Is whether the
bus knocked Roosevelt down or whether
It ran over him after he had been
struck by some other vehicle.
The bus starter at Seventy-ninth
street and Broadway. where the munich
pal line ends. said, according to the po-
lice. that Zaikin reported TO him after
ward that he had had an accident"
but that he did not give any details. At
10 o'clock last night the detectives said
Zaikin had admitted that ne might
have had an accident"
Witness Gives Wrong Name.
Patrolman Frank Curran, who was
called into the restaurant soon after
Mr.. Roosevelt was taken there. got tho
name OF one witness. who said he was
James Murry. Yale Club. Forty-fourth
street and Vanderbilt avenue" but at
the Yale Club Il was said that no James
man did not succeed IN learning who
had picked Roosevelt Up and carried
him into the restaurant. The street
was almost deserted because or the
wind and rain OF Friday night.
On card IN the West Sixty-eighth
street station Patrolman Curran's re-
port says: injuries sustained in some
unknown manner while partly intoxi-
Gated" The police ssid this was based
on what the ambulance surgeon from
Knickerbocker Hospital, Or. Jenkins,
told the patrolman. At the hospital II
was denied that any report OF intoxi-
cation had been made.
Or. Charles Norris. medical examiner.
and his assistant. Or. W. n. Gonzales.
who performed the autopsy. said they
could not tell whether Roosevelt had
been drinking. Or. Norris said an au-
tomobile undoubtedly struck the young
man.
Or. Norris found that Mr.. Roosevelt
had a remarkably thin skull 80 thin that
N might be fractured by 2 blow that
would only stun the ordinary person.
II was only three-twenty- -fifths OF an
inch thick. half the thickness OF che
normal skull. There were cuts on the
face and legs also. but the clothes x
was noted. were not as muddy and dis
arranged as those Of street accident
victims usually are.
Roosevelt's parents, Mr and Mrs.
Robert r. Roosevelt, came 10 New York
from Washington and the father identi-
fled the boy at the morgue. After the
autopsy II was sent to Sayville. I. r,
for funeral services.
Married Two Years AGO.
Roosevelt was married at the Hotel
Lorraine on October 10. 1920, 70 Miss
Virginia Lee Minor, daughter Of Mrs
Tucker X. Sands OF Richmond, Va, and
Washington. Until the arst OF this year
he was In the employ OF A. .. Leach a
CO. brokers, SO Cedar street lie lived
at Oakland avenue, Bayshore. l.. I.
About Ave weeks ago an heir was born
to- he young couple.
Recently Mrs Roosevelt went 20 vir-
ginia with the baby 20 visit relatives
and her husband. closing tho NJ 'se IN
Bayshore. made his home with dend.