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Show Wrecked Auto Bears Barney Oldfield Tag j NEW TORK, Oct. 18 (By A. P.) An automobile In which police found a California driver's license, bearing the name and photograph of Barney Oldfield, early today crashed Into a tree on Riverside drive, instantly killing kill-ing one of the occupants and serluusly injuring two others. Police are searching for a fourth man who wss thrown from the car snd disappeared before his Identity could be learned. . The dead man waa Joseph S. Dcg-non Dcg-non .of New York. The Injured were Kdward H. O'Donnell and Edward Mc-Kee, Mc-Kee, chauffeurs, both of whom wers taken to Knickerbocker txespltal and later locked up on charges of homicide. homi-cide. I'olire ssserted the speedometer of the wrecked machine Indicated It waa traveling seventy miles an hour when, going north on the driveway, rounding a curve near the soldiers' and sailors' monument. It skidded against a curb and dashed across tha street Into a large tree. Degnon was thrown against the tree and killed Instantly. The two chauffeurs chauf-feurs were burled beneath the wreck age. O'Donnell and McKee were unable to give the name of the fourth occupant of the car, who escaped. They had taken the machine from a Seventh avenue garage last night, they said. Oldflald's license was found In a side pocket of 4he automobile, which was of tbs racing; type. On the bottom of ! the car waa found an empty Luger automatic pistol caas and an txpen- 1 slve camera. |