GUILTY OF KILLING BOY, FACES 15-YEAR TERM

The New York Times
November 25, 1922

Taxicab Owner, Who Drove Without License, Convicted—Drunken Autoist Sent to Workhouse.

Found guilty of manslaughter in General Sessions yesterday, Nathan Lipzin, the owner and chauffeur of a taxicab, faces the possibility of a sentence of fifteen years in prison. On May 7 last his taxicab ran on the sidewalk, striking a number of children and killing five-year-old Herman Struhs, in front of his home at 56 East 130th Street.

One of the witnesses for the prosecution was Lucille Dill, 12 years old, who lived at the same address as the Struhs boy. The witness said that at the time of the accident she was tending her baby sister in a baby carriage on the sidewalk. Little Herman Struhs was playing ball almost at her side. She testified that the taxicab, going at high speed, ran up on the sidewalk and, after striking Herman, hit the baby carriage, overturned it and dumper her little sister on the sidewalk. She identified Lipzin as the driver of the car.

Lipzin is a clothing salesman of 1,016 East 156th Street. He bought the taxicab the day before the accident. His plea was that the happening was unavoidable as he had swerved the machine to avoid hitting a child in the street. He admitted he had no license to drive, but said he had applied for one and taken his road test. He will be sentenced on Wednesday next.

Andrew Koch, 22 years old, an electrician, of 53 West Nineteenth Street, was convicted in the Court of Special Sessions yesterday of operating an automobile while in an intoxicated condition and was sentenced to three months in the Workhouse by Justices Daniel F. Murphy, James J. McInerney and Arthur C. Salmon.