2 KILLED BY AUTOS; 37 HURT; 3 ARRESTS

The New York Times
November 20, 1922

Woman's Skull Fractured in Jersey Crash—Man Dies Driving Family.

MOTORCYCLE HITS CHILDREN

Chauffeur in Bronx Strikes One Car and Caroms to Another, Wrecking It.

Automobile accidents in the metropolitan district yesterday cost the lives of two persons and resulted in injuries to thirty-seven others, six of whom are in critical condition. Three arrests were made, one after a chase during which several shots were fired at a truck driver, who sped away after running down a boy.

Michael Rooney, 22, of 450 West Fifty-fourth Street, in charge of a truck owned by the Hudson Dairy Company of 637 Eleventh Avenue, was backing his car to turn around in front of 514 West Twenty-ninth Street late yesterday afternoon when Frank Abino, 10 years old, living at that address, stepped in the path of the truck and was thrown down.

Rooney, without waiting to see what injuries the boy had suffered, stepped on the accelerator and dashed to Tenth Avenue and then north. Harry Kimball, a taxi driver, had seen the accident, however, and he started in pursuit. A block away he saw Patrolman Martin Klub of the West Thirtieth Street Station, whom he motioned to jump on the cab. Rooney, in the meantime, was gaining but was still in sight. He turned west along Thirty-ninth Street and then started downtown again, turning back to Tenth Avenue and around the block to Thirty-ninth Street and Eleventh Avenue.

Klub fired four shots, the last of which caused Rooney to jump from the truck. The car was still rolling along when he sprang to the sidewalk and took to his heels along Eleventh Avenue. Klub overtook him and placed him under arrest on a charge of assault.

The injured boy was taken to St. Mary's Hospital, possibly internally injured, and with many cuts and bruises.

Jersey Woman Killed.

Mrs. Mary Liddle, 36, of 63 Palisade Avenue, Garfield, N. J., was killed; her husband John, 38, was seriously injured, and their three children received less serious injuries when Liddle ran his car into a telegraph pole at Broadway and Elizabeth Avenue, East Paterson, shortly after midnight Saturday.

All five members of the family were thrown from the car. Mrs. Liddle struck the pole and her skull and both arms were fractured. Liddle's legs and arms were broken and he is believed to have suffered internal injuries. The children—John, 11; Jessie, 6, and Clarence, 5, who received minor injuries, were taken with their father to Barnert Memorial Hospital.

Defective brakes on an automobile driven by Larue Ten Eyck, 60, of Madison, resulted in his death when the car got beyond control while descending a steep incline on Mase Mountain, three miles north of Dover, N. J., plunged into the mountainside and overturned.

With Ten Eyck at the time were his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Ten Eyck, the latter suffering a broken wrist when she was thrown out. The younger Ten Eyck escaped without injury, as he did earlier in the day when a motorcycle and sidecar he was operating turned over in Madison. Lyman Young, who was riding in the sidecar at the time, also escaped unscratched.

A touring car running at high speed plunged into a ditch in front of the country home of the late William Rockefeller on Albany Post Road near Scarborough yesterday morning and injured eight occupants. James Melvin of 719 Nepperhan Avenue, Yonkers, with a punctured lung and broken ribs, and Gene Reynolds of 1 Moquette Row, Yonkers, with concussion of the brain and scalp wounds, are in Ossining Hospital, and may die. The other six occupants, after being attended by doctors, went to their Yonkers homes. A bursting tire caused the accident.

Driver in Taxi Strikes Girl.

John Farrell, a taxi driver, of 742 Columbus Avenue, was arrested and held in $500 bail after witnesses had told the police that he was speeding when he struck Ethel Albrick, 18, of 488 Eleventh Avenue, while she was crossing Thirty-ninth Street and Tenth Avenue. Farrell had taken the girl to the rFench Hospital, where Dr. Stewart attended her for cuts on her scalp, face and body.

Vincent d'Angelo, 13, of 46 West End Avenue, was taken to Roosevelt Hospital with his skull possibly fractured and his right leg broken after he had been run down on West End Avenue, between Sixty-first and Sixty-second Streets, by an automobile driven by Issac Pearson, 30, of 506 West 140th Street, and owned by Pauline Rubin of 49 West 116th Street.

Two women were taken to the North Hudson Hospital at Weehawken following a collision between an automobile in which they were riding and a Summit Avenue trolley car. The skull of May de Salvo of 116 Webster Avenue, Jersey City, was possibly fractured. Amelia Lippare of 319 Warren Street, Jersey City, is suffering from shock and bruises. Robert Quinn of 259 Baldwin Avenue, Jersey City, who was driving the automobile, was not injured. He told the police that he was driving west on Savoy Street, West Hoboken, when the trolley car, bound south on Summit Avenue, struck his machine broadside at the intersection of the street. The automobile was demolished.

Driver Hits Two Cars.

A fine of $100 with the alternative of ten days in jail was imposed upon Edgar Nattiel, 26, a negro chauffeur, of 209 West 142d Street, on a charge of reckless driving. Nattiel was arraigned before Magistrate Edgar T. Frothingham in Morrisania Court following the collision of three automobiles at Mott Avenue and 144th Street, the Bronx. The negro, who was said to have been driving at excessive speed south on Mott Avenue, crashed into a touring car owned by Joseph Ledone of 169 Bergen Avenue, Jersey City, tearing off the right mudguard. Then, veering sharply, Nattiel's machine struck and wrecked the automobile of Ledone's brother, Anthony, who was following.

Seven persons were slightly injured yesterday morning when two automobiles crashed at Putnam and Ralph Avenues, Brooklyn. An automobile owned and driven by Benjamin Schelbaum of 23 West 114th Stret, Manhattan, was struck by another car, owned and driven by Harry Lipptonz of 476 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn. Schelbaum and Lipptonz and five persons riding in Lipptonz's car were treated by an ambulance surgeon from the Bushwick Hospital for cuts and bruises.

Patrolman George Marana of Traffic Squad D was treated by an ambulance surgeon from St. John's Hospital for a sprain of his right ankle after a taxicab in which he was riding crashed with a truck at Quincey Street and Throop Avenue, Brooklyn. The taxicab was driven by James Creke of 305 Elder Street, Brooklyn, and the truck belonged to the Evans Milk Company, 23 Lexington Avenue, Brooklyn. After treatment the policeman went to his home at 271 Halsey Street, Brooklyn.

Isaac Lankisky of 874 Dawson Street, the Bronx, was struck by an automobile driven by Joseph Raistsky of 786 East 152d Street, at Westchester and Prospect Avenues. He was taken to Lebanon Hospital, possibly internally injured and with body bruises.

Louis Gusch of River Edge, N. J., was struck at Fifth Avenue and Twenty-first Street by an automobile owned and driven by Charles Megolia of 3 Cole Street, Elmhurst. He was taken to New York Hospital for treatment of cuts and bruises.