The Bergen Record/1935/Teaneck Driver Held In Bogota On 3 Charges

Teaneck Driver Held In Bogota On 3 Charges. '''Lindauer Arrested As Hit-Run Driver Following Parked Car Crash. Is Judged Drunk.''' Grover C. Lindauer, 509 Queen Anne Road, Teaneck, was free on $500 bail today, charged with drunken driving, leaving the scene of an accident and failure to stop tor an officer following Lindauer's arrest last night by Bogota Acting Police Chief Hugh McCracken. At about 7 o'clock last night McCracken, driving out of Palisade Avenue into Fort Lee Road. Bogota, saw a car flash by with a man hanging the running board. As the car passed, the man signalled to McCracken to arrest the driver of the car. McCracken immediately took up pursuit, whistling at the car to stop and following with siren wide open. As the car continued west on Fort Lee Road, the driver attempted while passing another car going in the same direction, to pass it so close as to brush off the man hanging to the running board, McCracken said. McCracken succeeded in cutting off Lindauer, the driver, at Elm Avenue after he had been forced to slow up slightly at the West Shore Railroad crossing. The man hanging to the running board, Arnold Olson of 48 Forest Avenue, Teaneck, stated that Lindauer had hit his car while it was parked on Queen Anne Road. McCracken brought Lindauer and Olson into the police station, and also a passenger of Lindauer's who gave his identity as Robert Davies of Thirtieth Street and Broadway, New York City. There was a third man in the Lindauer car but he was not brought in. McCracken summoned Dr. Charles Tudor of Bogota, who conducted an examination of Lindauer at 7:30 o'clock. Dr. Tudor pronounced him unfit to drive. Lindauer then insisted on procuring two physicians of his own choice to conduct examinations. The name of the first physician summoned by Lindauer was not available at the police station. This physician conducted his examination at 9 p.m. and reported that while Lindauer had evidently had a few beers he was not unfit to drive. At 9:20 p.m. Dr. Arthur W. Pindar of 627 Queen Anne Road, Teaneck, called by Lindauer, conducted an examination, and pronounced Lindauer able to drive. Meanwhile, as Lindauer was undergoing his series of examinations, McCracken called Bogota Recorder A. August Belmonte, who held a hearing it about 7:45 o'clock, setting the $500 cash bail which was furnished by Lindauer's wife. The case is scheduled to be heard before Belmonte August 13 in Recorder's court.