The New York herald., 1922-10-13
THREE DIE In DAY
BY MOTORS IN CITY
Barney Oldfield's Racing Car.
Stolen From Garage, Wrecked,
One Dead.
SPEEDING AT 20 MILES
Boy of Six Among Victims
Helper on Truck Misses Foot
ing and Dies.

Three persons were killed and three
severely injured in this city yesterday
rs the result of automobile accidents.
One accident was the result OF an early
morning joy ride along Riverside Drive
in stolen racing car owned by Barney
Oldfield that crashed into the curb while
travelling at seventy miles an hour, kill
ing one man and injuring two of his
three companions. The driver escaped
unhurt but was arrested later, charged
with homicide and grand larceny.
The Oldfeld machine was taken from
the Midtown Garage, 149 West Forty
ninth street. by Joseph O'Dowd. 20. a
chauffeur of 365 West Twenty eighth
street who picked up James +. Degnan.
80, of 3 West Ninety-eighth street. who
was killed, and Edward O'Donnell. %.
of 444 West Twenty-sixth street, and
Edward Mckee, 49, of $50 Eleventh ave-
nue., both of whom were injured and are
now under arrest. Mckee and O'Dowd
will get hearings tomorrow. and O'lAon-
nell will be arraigned as soon as he can
be taken from Knickerbocker Hospital
The machine got beyond the drivers
control rounding the curve on the drive
near the Soldiers Monument and
crashed into the curb and irto tree.
killing Degnan instantly. The machine
was e wreck. According to Oldfeld and
his business associate. Monte Stone.
O'Dowd had not permission to take the
machine from the garage. At the
garage it was said that they did not
know anything about ODowd, although
he had been in the habit of hanging
about doing odd jobs.
James Hughes, aged 6, OF 512 West
Fiftieth street was killed in the street
near his home when a truck driven py
Albrt Reich of 731 Eleventh avenue and
owned by Benjamin Nathan. painter
and decorator of GA East Ninety-ninth
street, ran over him as the boy jumped
from the rear of another passing truck
and into the path OF the one driven by
Reich The latter was held In the west
Fo,ty-seven:h street station on a tech
nicaI charge Of homicide. Several wit
nesses told the police the killing was ac-
cidental.
Edward McCauley. 90 of SAG West
Twenty-ninth street, a helper on truck
owned by the Shanker Steel Ceiling Com
pany of 517 West Twenty-eighth street
was run oyer and crushed by the truck on
whick he worked, when he jumped from
it before it had stopped at Schiff Park
wav near Eldridge street. He slipped
ard fell under the wheels OF the truck
driven by Frank Kraft, of 263 West
Nineteenth street, who was held in SSOc
bail in the Essex Market Court for a
hearing to-day in the Homicide Court.
McCauley died soon afterward In
Gouverneur Hospital
William Harris, 81, of 204 Thirteenth
street. Brooklyn, suffered a fractured
left hip when an automobile in which
he was riding ran into that driven b.
Frank Dunn of 1850 Bergen street, at
Bedford avenue and Fulton street. The
car in which Harris was riding was
driven by Charles Bush of 3Ss Fifteenth
street, who escaped unhurt despite the
fact that his automobile was over
turned by the force of the collision.
\ Harris was taken to the Swedish Hos
pital. Dunn was also uninjured.
Crossing Park avenue at Eighty
sixth street last night Miss Elsie Gull
bert, aged 3S. giving her address as the
Hotel Commodore, was struck by an
automobile operated by Henry Gregor of
LAG East Eighty-first street. She was
taken to Presbyterian Hospital suffering
from severe contusions of the chest and
legs. q