VAUDEVILLE ACTOR KILLED BY A TRUCK

The New York Times
November 30, 1922

Eugene Schuler, Known on the Stage as Eugene Mack, Run Down I. Brooklyn.

TWO CHILDREN MEET DEATH

High School Boy Crushed in Sight of Hundreds of Children—Other Auto Accidents.

Eugene Schuler, 55 years old, of 555 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, was killed in Fulton Street, near South Portland Avenue, yesterday, by a motor truck driven by William Tobin of 754 Fiftieth Street, Brooklyn, and owned by James Bulter of 39 Washington Street, Manhattan. Tobin was held in the Gates Avenue Court in $5,000 bail for a hearing on a technical charge of homicide on Dec. 3.

Under the name of Eugene Mack, Schuler was known for nearly forty years to patrons of vaudeville and burlesque. He roomed with William Wilton, who was an old-time vaudeville actor, and twenty years ago appeared with Schuler in the team of Mack and Wilton.

James Montemarino, 11 years old, of 624 President Street, Brooklyn, was killed at Fifth Avenue and President Street by a motor truck of the Prudential Film Company, 727 Seventh Avenue, Manhattan, driven by Joseph Rosenstein, 523 West 133d Street, who was not arrested, because the police of the Bergen Street Station found him to be blameless.

Abraham Wolnitz, 16 years old, a freshman in the Boys' High School, Heywood Street and Broadway, Brooklyn, and living at 1,814 Park Place, was killed shortly after noon when a motor truck on which he was riding, collided with another at McDonough Street and Lewis Avenue, Brooklyn. The boy was thrown from the driver's seat under the wheels, and crushed to death, in sight of hundreds of school children out at the lunch hour. Martin Engel of 610 Howard Avenue, Brooklyn, driver of the truck on which the boy was riding, was arrested on a technical charge of homicide.

An automobile crashed into the curb at 161st Street and Jerome Avenue early yesterday morning and upset, spilling its occupants. Patrolman Powers of the Highbridge Station, on duty in a police booth, which the car narrowly missed, called an ambulance which took three men and a woman, all the occupants of the car, to Lincoln Hospital. Philip Ryan, 4,431 Park Avenue, the Bronx, got lacerations of the hands; Charles Clark, 501 West 135th Street, lacerations of the scalp; Michael J. Leo, 207 East Sixty-ninth Street, sprained shoulder, and Mary Kelly, 305 West 107th Street, lacerations of the face. Clark, who was driving, said the car swerved off the roadway when the steering gear locked and he lost control.

While crossing First Avenue and Sixty-fourth Street last night Vito Deilluvio, 7 years old, whose address was not obtained by the police, was struck by a taxicab driven by Francis Clifford of 148 Second Avenue. Clifford summoned Patrolman Paul Miner of the East Sixty-Seventh Street Station, who called Dr. Goldstein from Flower Hospital. The boy was taken to the hospital suffering from internal injuries and a possible fractured skull.

Daniel Hennessy, a city fireman, was struck by an automobile while standing in front of Hook and Ladder Company E, in Thirteenth Street near Fourth Avenue, and his right arm was broken. The automobile sped away.

While crossing Ninth Street at University Place Max Auerbach, proprietor of a dry goods store at 253 West Eleventh Street, was struck and seriously injured by a Fire Department automobile carrying a battalion chief to a blaze in an ash can at Waverley Place. Auerbach was taken in the car to St. Vincent's Hospital.

A taxicab driven by James Brodsky of 60 Second Avenue struck and seriously injured Joseph Slasavic, 10 years old, of 169 East Sixty-ninth Street, at Third Avenue and Seventy-fourth Street. The boy was taken in the taxicab to the Presbyterian Hospital.