Louis Windmueller Hurt

Here are extracts from a report in the New York Times describing how Louis Windmuller was run down by an automobile.

Louis Windmueller Hurt.

Knocked Down by a Lightless Auto at an Unprotected Crossing.

Louis Windmüller, the well-known importer and member of the Reform Club, was knocked down by an automobile which, Mr. Windmüller says, was running withough lights down Seventh Avenue, when he was crossing the avenue at Thirty-first Street on Friday evening. Fortunately the chauffeur saw what he had done and pulled up, but not before Mr. Windmüller had been caught beneath the front wheels and had been painfully injured. His hip was dislocated, his arms were bruised, and his clothing was badly torn...

Windmüller wrote in a letter to the Times:

"I appreciate that the first duty of the force is to assist chauffeurs, vehicles drawn by horses come next, then trolley passengers. Pedestrians appear in the eyes of the police to deserve no consideration until they are in trouble."

-- source: New York Times. Nov 26, 1911; p. 1.