Brooklyn Daily Standard Union

September 11, 1923

Policeman Fred BENKTER, 39 years old, attached to Traffic D station, was
killed early today, when he fell from the running board of an automobile
owned by Harriet PERKINS, of 503 East Fifth Street.
According to police of the Prospect Park station, BENKTER worked a 4 to
12 tour yesterday, and he was returning to his home at 1 A.M. today when he
asked Russell PERKINS, son of the owner, for a lift.  The policeman got on
the running board and when the car turned into Coney Island Avenue, near
Park Circle, BENKTER lost his balance and fell to the street, fracturing his
skull.
Patrolman Fred RITSCHE, of the Prospect Park station, who was standing
nearby, ran over and gave first aid treatment to his brother officer.
RITSCHE, and PERKINS carried the policeman to a store and a call was sent
for an ambulance.
DR. MELLON, of the Coney Island Hospital, took BENKTER to that
institution, but the policeman died at 2 A.M.

Six year old Helen McFADDEN, of 215 Herkimer Street, was run down by a
motor truck at Herkimer Street near New York Avenue and died in St. John's
Hospital two hours later from internal injuries.  The girl was crossing the
street when a motor truck, driven by Joseph MASON, colored, of 711 Herkimer
Street, struck her.

Arthur USHER, 9, of 500 Third Avenue, while crossing at Fourth Avenue
and Thirteenth Street, was struck by an automobile owned by Frank LINDSTROM,
of 141 Twenty-Ninth Street.  He received lacerations of the body and went
home.

At Scholes and Lorimer Streets, Ruth ELMOWTZ, 4, of 42 Scholes Street,
was struck by an automobile owned and driven by Nathan LUBIN, of 211 Scholes
Street.  She suffered lacerations of the scalp and went home.

An automobile owned by Leon BECON, of 1336 East Twenty-First Street, ran
down Frederick BECKIN, 36, of 466 Seventy-Third Street, at Bond and Fulton
Streets.  He went home after treatment.

Boy's Skull Fractured
Arnold GROSS, 13, of 1126 Myrtle Avenue, was playing baseball at Myrtle
Avenue near Ditmars Street, when he was struck by an automobile owned by
Samuel COHEN, of 30 Throop Avenue.  Dr. RABBINER of the Beth Moses Hospital,
attended the boy for a possible fracture of the skull and took him to that
institution.

Morris SCHNEIDER, of 5518 Fourteenth Avenue, was driving his automobile
in Marcy Avenue, near Rodney Street, when the machine struck Ingler GERSON,
8, of 234 Rodney Street.  The boy was taken home and attended by Dr. LIEFEL,
of the Bushwick Hospital, for contusions of the head.

Catherine SEH, 8, of 1296 Bergen Street, was taken to St. John's
Hospital suffering from a possible fracture of the skull and lacerations,
which she sustained when she was struck by an automobile owned and driven by
Ada BRADY, of 794 Prospect Place.  The girl was crossing Bergen Street, near
Kingston Avenue, when the accident happened.

Salvatore FIROA, 44, of 1041 Sixty-First Street, was riding his bicycle
in Seventh Avenue, near Sixtieth Street, when he was struck by an automobile
owned by Albert STERN, of 471 Forty-Seventh Street.  FIORA was taken to the
Norwegian Hospital suffering from several fractured ribs.

George QUARTERS, 29, of 1528 Sixtieth Street, suffered lacerations of
the scalp when he fell from a taxicab owned by the Greeley Taxi Co., of 1565
Broadway, Manhattan.  QUARTERS was alighting from the cab when he missed his
step and fell against the mudguard of the machine.  Dr. TYMAN, of the
Israel-Zion Hospital attended him.

Jack ALBERTINO, 2, of 652 Fortieth Street, was crossing Seventh Avenue
near Fortieth Street when he was struck by an automobile owned by Isadore
Marcell, of 1347 Forty-Fifth Street.  A physician examined the boy and
reported that the child was not injured.


September 13, 1923

    Motorcycle Patrolman Daniel R. EGINTON, of the Parkville station, was
painfully injured early today when he was knocked from his machine by a
taxicab at Ocean Parkway and Beverly Road while chasing a private
automobile, the driver of which seemed to be drunk.
    Going at high speed, the pursued driver narrowly missed the front of the
taxicab.  EGINTON was close behind and the taxicab struck his motorcycle
before Andrew SACHS, the taxi driver, could bring his machine to a halt.
    EGINTON landed on his right shoulder.  SACHS took him to the Parkville
station, where he refused medical attention and then to his home, 2901
Avenue D, where a private physician was called to treat him.
    The pursued auto driver escaped.  SACHS, who lives at 56 Eagle Avenue,
the Bronx, was exonerated of any blame by EGINTON.

    Dorothy KRAUSS, of 266 Rochester Avenue, was crossing at Eastern
Parkway, near Schenectady Avenue, when she was struck by an automobile owned
by William BRODERICK, of 1047 Bergen Street.  The woman refused medical aid
and left for home.

Sustains Abrasions
    Carlo VALSAGIO, 11, of 138 Graham Avenue, suffered abrasions of the arms
when he was struck by an automobile owned by A. KOROVOW, of 248 Union
Avenue, while crossing at Johnson and Graham Avenues.

    Robert JAMES, 15, of 1639 Seventieth Street, while riding a bicycle in
Seventeenth Street, near Eighty-Sixth Street, was struck by an automobile
owned by Giro ALSANO, of 2741 Stillwell Avenue.  The boy was taken to the
Coney Island Hospital suffering from internal injuries.

    Frank DeSOTA, of 2167 Sixty-Third Street, was driving his automobile in
Sixty-Third Street when the machine struck Fred COHEN, 5, of 2163
Sixty-Fourth Street.  The boy was attended for lacerations of the face and
went home.

    Catherine CADINA, 9, of 234 Fourth Avenue, was attended at the Methodist
Episcopal Hospital for contusions which she sustained when she was struck by
an automobile owned by the Lindsay Laboratory Company, at Fourth Avenue and
Union Street.

Strikes Girl and Flees.
    Dorothy KEMPLER, 18, of 120 Manhattan Avenue, was crossing Broadway,
near Lorimer Street, when she was struck by an automobile which failed to
stop.  The police of the Stagg Street station are conducting a search for
the driver.  The girl was attended at St. Catharine's Hospital for abrasions
of the body.

    Christopher EICKSON, of 1053 Eighty-Fifth Street, was driving his
automobile in Seventy-Sixth Street near Sixth Avenue, when he turned his car
to one side of the street in order to avoid striking a child, but the
machine struck Grace JOHNSTON, 8, of 511 Seventy-Sixth Street, who was
playing in front of her home.  Dr. Herman STUCKE, of 423 Seventy-Seventh
Street, attended the girl for lacerations of the scalp.

    Deauna TRIANO, 6, of 34 Troy Avenue, was attended at St. John's Hospital
for contusions of the face and head which she sustained when she was struck
by an automobile owned and driven by Henry L. HENDRICKS, of 101-16 114th
Street, Richmond Hill.  The child was crossing at Troy and Atlantic Avenues
when the accident happened.

Nathan GOLDMAN, 11 years old, of 2857 West Twenty-second street, was
instantly killed by an automobile truck last night while visiting relatives
in the Brownsville section.  The boy was playing with a group of companions
at Thatford and Dumont avenues at the time.  His head was crushed by the
heavy vehicle.
    Frank HILLAND, 26, of 555 Forest avenue, Ridgewood, said by the police
to have been driving the truck, was attacked by several hundred men and
women after the accident, and was rescued by the police of the Brownsville
station.
    Two men, said to have been riding on the truck with Holland, fled after
the accident, according to the police, fearing the wrath of the threatening
mob.  Some of the more excited men were getting on the truck when the police
arrived and forced them back.
    The boy's body was taken to the home of his relatives at 291 Thatford
avenue.  The police remained on the truck, guarding HOLLAND as he drove to
the Liberty avenue station, where he was arrested on a technical charge of
homicide.  He will appear before Magistrate BROWN in the New Jersey avenue
court today.

    Harold ESTERBLINK, 8, of 1722 Union street, while crossing at Union
street and Utica avenue, was struck by an automobile owned and operated by
Joseph De BEVOISE.  Ambulance Surgeon RILEY, who was called from St. Mary's
Hospital found that the boy was suffering from a fracture of the left leg,
and took him to that institution.

Two Men Hurt in Crash.
    Otto BECKMAN, 23, of 720 Classon, and John FINCK, 53, of 993 Fulton
street, were riding in an automobile which collided with another machine
owned and driven by William BARTHWAITE, of 537 Waverly avenue, at Grand and
Gates avenues.  BECKMAN is believed to have several ribs fractured.  FINCK
was attended for concussion of the chest by Dr. MORSE, of the Jewish
Hospital.  Both men went home after treatment.

    Louis RUFFE, 19, of 324 Eighty-seventh street, was taken to the Holy
Family Hospital suffering from internal injuries, which he sustained when he
jumped from an ice wagon at State and Hoyt streets and was struck by an
automobile driven by Augustine PAULSON, of 1445 Bedford avenue.

    Leonard DELLO, 23, of 679 Fifth avenue, was riding on the mudguard of an
automobile owned by John CORRIGAN, of 366 Fifth street, when he fell to the
pavement at Third avenue and Seventh street.  Dr. JOHNSON, of the Methodist
Episcopal Hospital, took DELLO to that institution suffering from concussion
of the brain.

    Meyer SOLODSKIN, 14, of 165 Montrose avenue, was taken to St.
Catherine's Hospital suffering from a fracture of the left leg, which he
sustained when he was struck by an automobile owned and driven by Harry
POLOTMICK, of 145 South Fourth street, while crossing at Montrose and Graham
avenues.

    Meyer KAMINSKY, of 547 Hinsdale street, was driving his automobile in
Bedford avenue near Hewes street, when it struck Samuel FELDMAN, 55, of 133
South Ninth street.  FELDMAN suffered fractures of the ribs.  After being
attended by Dr. THURN, of the Beth Moses Hospital, he left for home.

Falls Under Auto's Wheels
    James TIGHE, 10, of 78 Sullivan street, was pushing an automobile into a
garage at 74 Sullivan street when he fell and the machine passed over his
body.  Dr. FISHBEIN, of the Holy Family Hospital, took the boy to that
institution suffering from a fracture of the backbone.

    William KELLY, of 694½ Fifth avenue, was taken to the Samaritan Hospital
suffering from a possible fracture of the knee which he sustained when he
was struck by an automobile owned and driven by William MARGUET, of 147
Berkley place, while crossing at Fourth avenue and Seventh Street.

    Sigmund LAZINSKY, 9, of 93 Twentieth street, was sitting on the curb in
front of 659 Third avenue, according to the police, when he was struck by an
automobile owned and driven by Isaac UNANSKY, of 8010 Third avenue.  The boy
was taken to the Samaritan Hospital by Dr. MEYER suffering from a fracture
to the left leg.

    Two women and two men were injured when an automobile owned and driven
by Isaac BASKARKIN, of 206 East 115th street, Manhattan, collided with
another machine driven by Dominick SCODRAY, of 6401 Thirteenth avenue, at
Fourth avenue and Seventy-seven street.  The injured, who went home after
being attend at the Norwegian Hospital for abrasions are:  Juliette GREW,
22, of 2850 East Fifteenth street; Gertrude SHAW, 26, of 2925 West Sixteenth
street; Joseph HERBERT, 50, of 139 West 116th street, Manhattan, and
BASKARKIN.

Husband and Wife Hurt.
    Samuel POLPORACH, 30 and his wife Eva, ?8, both of  51 Meserole street
were riding in a taxicab owned and driven by Louis ONAN, of 157 Throop
avenue, when it collided with another cab owned by Charles Murphy, of 1065
Myrtle avenue.  Dr. SEIGEL, of the Cumberland Street Hospital, attended Mrs.
POLPORACH for shock and her husband for lacerations of the arms.  According
to the police, Murphy's cab was standing in front of 125 DeKalb avenue when
ONAN's cab collided with it.

    Harry ELLIOTT, 23, of 259 West 134th street, and Hugh KINLRY, 49, of 236
West Sixty-fourth street; both of Manhattan, suffered lacerations and
contusions of the body when an auto truck of the Mack Truck Company, on
which they were riding, collided at Vanderbilt and Willoughby avenues with
an auto owned by Charles BERGMAN, of 163 Halsey Street, and driven by his
wife.  Dr. KIRSCH, of the Cumberland Street Hospital, attended the men and
they left for home.

    Frederick BLANEL, 45, of 124 Classon avenue, a laborer, employed by the
New York Telephone Company, was digging a trench at New Utrecht avenue and
Seventy-sixth street when an automobile driven by  William    RIN?RONA, of
5512 Fourteenth avenue, hit him and he received a possible fracture of the
skull.  He went home after receiving medical aid.

September 14, 1923
Auto Accidents
    Three men and a boy were killed, and nearly a score of persons were
injured in automobile accidents yesterday in Brooklyn and Long Island.

    Thomas FARRELL, a laborer, 35 years old, of 1267 Fulton street, missed
his footing as he was about to board an automobile truck and went under the
wheels.  His skull was crushed and he was pronounced dead by an ambulance
surgeon.    The accident occurred at Metropolitan avenue and Union turnpike, Kew
Gardens.  FARRELL was waiting there for a car to take him back to Brooklyn
when John DELSON, a farmer of Old Westbury, drove by on his motor truck.
FARRELL asked a ride and as  DELSON slowed down,  FARRELL tried to climb aboard.

    An attempt to avoid an automobile collision resulted in the deaths of
John WESTERHOFF, popularly known as "John Duck", to motorist of Long Island,
and Henry G. CULVER, superintendent of the West Hampton Country Club.
WESTERHOFF was the proprietor of the John Duck Hotel.  The accident occurred
near West Hampton.
    The two men were riding together when CULVER, who was driving the
machine, tried to avoid striking an auto truck and crashed into a telephone
pole.  Both men were dead when taken from the wreckage.  CULVER was
Commissioner of Elections to Suffolk County.

Lad Loses Life.
    Gustave GROSS, 2, of 228 Vandeventer avenue, Long Island City, was
killed by an automobile at Thirteenth avenue and Grand avenue, Long Island
City.  The driver, Clifford ROACH, of 147 Thirteenth avenue, was arrested.

    Vincent LaSENNA, 5, of 209 Twenty-first street, was playing in Fourth
avenue near Twenty-third street when he was struck by an automobile owned
and driven by Joseph BERILLIO, of 8734 Twentieth avenue.  The boy was taken
to the Samaritan Hospital where he was attended for contusions and a
possible fracture of the nose by Dr. SHAPIRO.

    John BUTLER, 40, of 1785 Atlantic avenue, was crossing Atlantic and
Rochester avenues when he was struck by an automobile.  The driver sped away
after the accident.  BUTLER was attended at St. Mary's Hospital for a
lacerated hip and left for home.

    Harry NEINMEYER, of 699 Sutter avenue was driving his automobile on
Hancock street near Howard avenue when the machine struck Charles SCHRIEBER,
33, of 820 Halsey street.  SCHRIEBER suffered a lacerated scalp and after
being attended at the Bushwick Hospital left for home.

    Irving UNGAR, 5, of 627 Myrtle avenue, was taken to the Cumberland
Street Hospital suffering from possible fracture of the foot which he
sustained when he was struck by an automobile owned by David FELDBERG, of
988 Sutter avenue, at Franklin and Myrtle avenues.

    Pietro SPINA, 11, of 6112 New Utrecht avenue, was crossing Sixty-fourth
street near Fourteenth avenue when he was struck by an automobile owned by
the Midwood Laundry, of 1337 Coney Island avenue.  The boy was attended at
his home for contusions.

Ankle Broken in Crash.
    Nathan HOCHMANN, 40, of 393 Stone avenue, was riding in an automobile
owned by Dr. SACKS, of 57 Morrell street, which was in collision with
another machine owned by Thomas CALLAN, of West Ninth street, at Grand and
Leonard street.  HOCHMANN was taken to St. Catherine's Hospital suffering
from a possible fracture to the ankle.

    Moe BERNHARDT, 9, of 237 Lee avenue, was stealing a ride on a truck,
according to police, when he jumped off at Penn street and Lee avenue and
was struck by an automobile owned by David WELSH, of 23 St. James place.
Dr. BLANK, of the Beth Moses Hospital, attended the boy for a possible
fracture of the leg and took him home.

    Jacob SHAPIRO, 6, of 736 Bedford avenue, was crossing at Flushing and
Bedford avenues when he was struck by a taxicab owned by P. J. MEEHAN, of
304 Webster avenue, Astoria.  Dr. BLANK, of Beth Moses Hospital, examined
the boy and reported he was uninjured.

    Bernard SCHOFFES, 14, of 129A Beach Thirty-third street, suffered
lacerations of the face and scalp when a Lorimer street trolley car in which
he was a passenger was in collision with an automobile at Atlantic and
Nostrand avenues.  Dr. LEVINE, of the Swedish Hospital, attended the boy.

    Mary SILVER, of 1525 Forty-ninth street, was driving an automobile in
Surf avenue, near West Thirtieth street, when the machine struck Samuel
GALIVOWITZ, 40, of 2926 Surf avenue.  Dr. LANDES, of the Coney Island
Hospital, attended GALIVOWITZ for contusions of the arms and legs.

Cyclist Struck by Auto.
    Harry GIVANT, 13, of 1729 Bath avenue, while riding a bicycle at Benson
avenue and Bay Nineteenth street, was struck by an automobile owned by the
Flatbush Taxi Company, of 843 Flatbush avenue.  GIVANT was taken to the
Coney Island Hospital suffering from a possible fracture of the skull.

    Walter NEELY, 7, of 745 Fifty-ninth street, while crossing in front of
his home, was struck by an automobile owned by Harold SADDLEMAN, of 645 West
End avenue, Manhattan.  The boy sustained lacerations of the scalp and went
home.

    Joseph MARACCA, 32, of 722 Henry street, while driving an automobile at
Hicks and Union streets, collided with another driven by Philip FOX, of 4296
Howard avenue.  MARACCA was taken to the Long Island College Hospital
suffering from concussion  of the brain.

    While crossing at McKibbin and Humboldt streets, Louis OETECH, of 165
McKibben street, was struck by an automobile, the driver of which failed to
stop.  The boy sustained lacerations of the left leg and went home.

15 Sept 1923

Nearly a Score Injured in Other Motor Accidents - Patrolman Thrown From
Motorcycle While Chasing Autoist, Bruises His Knees - Police Arrest Taxi
Driver After His Machine Strikes Two Men at Work on Auto in Street - Several
Children Taken to Hospitals Suffering From Broken Bones.

    Anna WEINGARTNER, six years old, of 85 Morgan avenue, was killed last
night when she was stuck by an automobile owned by Kinney & Sons, of 94
Rochester avenue, as she was crossing the street near her home, at Morgan
avenue and Harrison place.
    Dr. DARBY was summoned from St. Catherine's Hospital but the child died
in the ambulance on the way to the institution.  It was found that her skull
and jaw had been fractured.
    Harry KINNEY, of 1801 Dean street, driver of the automobile, was
arrested by Patrolman VIERLING, of the Stagg street station, on a charge of
homicide.  He will be arraigned in Bridge Plaza court before Magistrate
LIOTA today.

    Antonio LOTITO, 3, of 171 Franklin street, was struck by an automobile
driven by M. CHAPEK, of 480 East Seventy-fourth street, as he was crossing
at Franklin and Huron streets.  The boy went home after Dr. ALVECK, of the
Greenpoint Hospital attended him for lacerations of the scalp.

    David GLASTOW, 12, of 714 DeKalb avenue, sustained a fracture of the
skull when he was struck by an automobile which the police say was operated
by Philip DeFISNO, of 710 Flushing avenue.  The boy was taken to the Beth
Moses Hospital by Dr. BLANK.  The accident happened at DeKalb and Marcy
avenues.

    William MEEGAN, 12, of 37 Kingsland avenue, suffered lacerations of the
knees when he was struck by an automobile driven by Vincent POTTMES, of 171
Montrose avenue, at Graham avenue and Withers street.  The boy went home
after receiving medical attention.

    Vincent ALNANDO, 4, of 464 Carroll street, was playing in Carroll street
near Third avenue when he was struck by an automobile owned and driven by
Irving CARLSON, of 450 Ocean Parkway.  CARLSON put the boy in his machine
and took him to the Methodist Episcopal Hospital where it was found the lad
was suffering contusions of the face.  After being treated by Dr. JOHNSON,
the boy was taken home by relatives.

    Leo WEISS, 4, of 1236 Union street, suffered lacerations of the eye when
he was struck by an automobile owned by Henry KRAITSCH, of Hempstead.  The
boy was playing in front of his home when the accident happened.

    George MENDELL, 20, of 390 Stratford road, was driving his automobile in
Eastern parkway near Washington avenue, when his machine collided with
another driven by Phillip CONNOVA, of 9 Ellery street.  Dr. MORSE, attended
MENDELL at the Jewish Hospital for lacerations and contusions.

    Irving LAUER, 9, of 601 Stone avenue, was playing in Dumont avenue near
Douglas street when he was struck by an automobile owned by Max HAY.  The
boy was attended for abrasions and taken home.

    William BUNN, 45, of 27 Willoughby street, was struck by an automobile
owned and driven by George H. TOONHAGEN, of 691 Lincoln place, at Adams and
Willoughby streets.  BUNN was attended at the Cumberland Street Hospital for
contusions of the body and then went home.

    David EPSTEIN, 11, of 318 Van Buren street, was riding his bicycle in
Lafayette avenue near Lewis avenue when he was struck by an automobile owned
and driven by Joseph BLAUSTINE, of 78 West Thirty-first street, Bayonne, N.
J.  Dr. BLANK,  of the Beth Moses Hospital, attended the boy for a sprained
ankle.

    Edward SPITH, 4, of 1772 Fulton street, was taken to St. Mary's Hospital
suffering from contusions of the head, which he sustained when he was struck
by an automobile owned by Harry SHAPIRO, of 213 West Seventh street, Union
Hill, N. J.  The boy was playing in Utica avenue near Herkimer street when
the accident happened.

    Morris BLOOMBERG, 8, of 134 Seventeenth street, was crossing in front of
620 Fourth avenue when he was struck by an automobile owned and driven by
Lewis ASCIONE, of 123 Nineteenth street.  The boy suffered a possible
fractured skull and was taken to the Samaritan Hospital.

    Salvatore PECOROLLA, of 1645 Cropsey avenue,was driving his automobile
in Bath avenue, near Bay Thirteenth street, when the machine struck John
DeSINA, 7, of 144 Bay Thirteenth street.  The boy suffered several fractured
ribs and internal injuries and was taken to the Israel Zion Hospital.

    Abraham GOLDBERG, 25, of 2271 Eighty-fifth street, was crossing
Twenty-third avenue, near Eighty-sixth street, when he was struck by an
automobile owned by Rose SHANAHAN, of Bay Ridge avenue.  GOLDBERG was
attended for contusions and left for home.

    Frank GIOVANNI, 23, of 188 Engert avenue, suffered a fracture of the leg
and William EHRENS, 23, of 339 Forty-fifth street, sustained lacerations of
the body, when they were struck by a taxicab owned by the Red Checker Cab
Company, of Wilson street and Wythe avenue.
    GIOVANNI and EHRENS were fixing a wheel on the former's automobile when
the accident happened.  Dr. LANDES, of the Coney Island Hospital, took the
two men to that institution.  John COLLINS, of 449 Graham avenue, driver of
the taxicab, was arrested on an assault charge.

    Patrolman Frank BLAKE, 28, attached to the Fourth avenue station and
living at 449 West 124th street, Manhattan, was pursuing a speeding
automobile along Fifth avenue when his motorcycle skidded at Thirty-first
street, throwing him to the street.  Dr. MALLON, of the Norwegian Hospital,
attended him for contusions and abrasions of the knees.

    Alfred CEIMIECK, 3, of 274 Kingsland avenue, while crossing at Kingsland
and Nassau avenues, was struck by an automobile owned by Edmund KINGLING, of
527 West 123d street, Manhattan.  He was taken to the Greenpoint Hospital
suffering from internal injuries.

    Four-year-old Catherine REID, of 598 Leonard street, while crossing the
street in front of her home, was struck by an automobile owned by Arthur
SHAPIRO, of 159 Amboy street.  She went home after treatment.

    Patrolman Warren DAHRLES, of the Popular street station, sustained a
fracture of the skull when he was thrown from an automobile at Glenmore
avenue and Wyona street.  DAHRLES was on his way to the Jamaica race track
to report there for duty when the accident happened.  He was taken to the
Kings County Hospital by Dr. GRABER, of the Bradford Street Hospital.  The
automobile in which DAHRLES was riding tried to avoid a collision with
another car, and as a result DAHRLES was thrown to the street.


16 September 1923

TWELVE PERSONS HURT IN TRAFFIC MISHAPS
Child on Tricycle Seriously Injured When Auto Mounts Sidewalk
   -Two Women Struck on Car Tracks by Another Machine
   -Taxi Driver and Fare Crash into Telegraph Pole - Other Mishaps

    Five year old Fanny ANCESANO, of 118 Walworth street, lies critically
injured in Cumberland Street Hospital as the result of being mowed down on
her tricycle last night by an automobile which ran into the sidewalk at
Walworth street and Park avenue, when Harry TOPPING, 24 years old, of 752
Madison street, the driver, lost control of the machine.  TOPPING was
arrested on the charges of felonious assault by Patrolman George OHLEY, of
the Clymer Street station.  The girl was rushed to the hospital by Ambulance
Surgeon HERZ who found her to be suffering from a fracture of the skull,
lacerations of the left leg, and body bruises.  The machine was said to be
owned by Thomas SULLIVAN, of 105 Walworth street.

    Two women are in St. John's Hospital after being struck last night on
Jackson avenue, Long Island City, by an automobile driven by Luella J.
FRIEDMAN, of 161 Steinway avenue, Astoria.  The victims are Alvane BLASTNIK,
23 years old, of 247 Crescent street, Long Island City, suffering from shock
and lacerations of the back, and Jessie LEIVIS, of William street, Astoria,
suffering from bruises of the arm and body lacerations.  According to the
police Miss LEIVIS was assisting her companion whose foot was wedged in the
car tracks, when the machine ran them down.  No arrest was made.

    Three year old Joseph CAUSOLE, of 214 Wallabout street is in Cumberland
Street Hospital suffering from a fracture of the left leg sustained when he
was run down last night by an automobile at Nostrand avenue and Wallabout
street.  The machine was driven by Irving LASKY, of 488 Hart street.  The
boy was taken to the hospital by Ambulance Surgeon SPRINGER.

    Irving FREIDENRICH, 28 years old, of 173rd street and Nicolas avenue,
Manhattan, driver of a taxicab, and his passenger, Harry YUGAR, 30, of 2532
Union avenue, Bronx, were both slightly injured yesterday when the former's
machine became uncontrollable at Van Dam street, near Nelson avenue, Long
Island City, jumped the curb and crashed into a telegraph pole.  The cab was
badly damaged, and the two occupants treated for cuts and bruises by an
ambulance surgeon.  A broken steering apparatus was responsible for the
accident to the cab which belonged to the H. and J. Checker Taxi Company,
130 West 145th street, Manhattan.

    Herbert ROSEN, 10, of 703 Third avenue, suffered lacerations of the
scalp yesterday when struck while crossing Third avenue and Twentieth
street, by a automobile driven by H. H. EDWARDS, of the Hotel Margaret.  The
boy was attended by an ambulance surgeon and sent home.

    Three year old Paul HAND, of 406 Van Buren street, suffered lacerations
of the left eye and bruises of the right hip last night when struck in front
of his home by an automobile driven by Arthur RICHARD, of 554 Ridgewood
avenue.  He was attended by an ambulance surgeon and sent home.  The machine
is owned by J. L. ECCLES, of 1 West Fourth street, Manhattan.

    William BRADY, 43, of 722 Caton avenue, suffered lacerations of the
scalp last night when he fell while alighting from a Flatbush avenue trolley
at Clarendon road and Flatbush avenue.  He was attended by an ambulance
surgeon and sent home.

    Augusta WALSH, 9, of 1039 Putnam avenue, suffered lacerations of the
face yesterday when struck by a trolley car at Putnam avenue and Broadway.
The victim was attended by an ambulance surgeon and sent home.

    Three year old Maragaret CASEY, of 587 ½  Eighteenth street, suffered
lacerations of the forehead last night when struck by an automobile driven
by Eugene SCANNELLI, of 136 Kosclusko street, at Eighteenth street and Tenth
avenue.  She was treated by an ambulance surgeon and sent home.

    Samuel LANG, 50(?), of 22 Cannan street, Manhattan, suffered a possible
fracture of the left leg last night when he fell from a truck he was loading
at Rodney street and Lee avenue.  He was attended and sent home.

    Pastio SORIO, 41 of 361 Hicks street, was slightly injured last night
when struck by an automobile at Columbia and Warren streets.  The machine
was owned by the Eastern Furniture Company, of 143 Warren street.  SORIO was
attended and sent home.  The driver was not held.


17 September 1923

September 17, 1923

Auto Accidents

AUTOS INJURE TWENTY IN WEEK-END MISHAPS

Woman and Two Men Hurt When Machines Collide - Boy, Playing in Street,
Is Injured - Many Children Victims of Holiday Accidents - Two Youths
hurt When Trolley Hits Auto.

    Two men and a woman were injured yesterday when an automobile owned
by Sol UOLOLITZ, of 108 Forsyth street, Manhattan, collided with a
machine owned by Thomas SHAUGHNESSY, of 1744 Church street, Richmond
Hill, at Taylor street and Wythe avenue.
    The following were injured:  Irving SIMON, 23, of 124 Suffolk
street; Morris FEIN, 58, of 140 West Ninth street, and Ida LIBITZ, 23,
of 101 Norfolk street, all Manhattan.

    Louis TARDO, 10, of 946 Atlantic avenue, playing in Atlantic, near
Classon avenues, was struck by an automobile owned by the C and W Auto
Service Company, of 1255 Atlantic avenue.  Dr. MORSE of the Jewish
Hospital attended the boy.

    Arthur  WESTOVER, 38, of 1481 East Ninety-fourth street, Canarsie,
was taken to the Brownsville and East New York Hospital with a fractured
collar bone and scalp injuries when he was struck by an automobile owned
and driven by Joseph RIZZO, of 9202 Denton avenue.

Mother and Son Injured.
    Catherine MENDER, 56, of 66 Stagg street, and her son, Edward, were
injured when their automobile collided with another machine owned and
driven by Martin KRIMPLER, of 1697 Madison street, at Bay and Ocean
Parkways.

    Rose WEISS, 18, of 344 South Third street, was injured when struck
by a taxicab at Broadway and Hooper street.  Dr. DOHERTY, of St.
Catherine's Hospital, attended the girl.

    Edith IRVING, 9, of 224 Schaeffer street, crossing Wilson avenue,
near Covert street, was struck by an automobile.  The child was taken to
the Wyckoff Heights Hospital.

    Edward CHAPMAN, of 153? West Second street, driving his automobile
in Fourteenth avenue near Forty-third street, struck Leo KLEINMAN, 14,
of 1430 Forty-fourth street.  The boy was attended at the Israel Zion
Hospital.

Child Hit Crossing Street
    Frank  FINZZO , 4, of 215 North Fifth street, was injured when he
was struck by an automobile owned by Samuel SANDIER, of 175 Pulaski
street.  The boy was crossing the street in front of his home when
injured.

    Fred AUMILLER, 42, of 7115 Fifth avenue had several ribs fractured
by an automobile owned and driven by James McHUGH, of 619 Eighty-fifth ,
at Fourth avenue and Forty-second street, yesterday.  AUMILLER was taken
to Kings County Hospital.

    William O'HARE, 51, of 255 Sumpter street, was injured when an
automobile in which he was riding, driven by Arthur COMPO, of 1436
Broadway, collided with a machine owned and driven by Edward LEACH, of
8408 107th street, Richmond Hill.

    Horner EICHNER, 19, of 5514 Eleventh avenue, and Walter EICHNER, 20,
of the same address, riding on a surface car of the Eighth avenue line,
were thrown from their seats and injured when the car struck an
automobile owned and driven by Fred CHRISTIE, of 8687 Bay Sixteenth
street.  The accident occurred on Fifty-first street.

Four Injured in Crash
    Four persons were slightly injured yesterday when the automobile in
which they were riding, driven by Harry RUBIN, of 239 West Forty-Ninth
street,  Manhattan, collided with a machine owned and driven by Harry
BONTINT, of 311 Cottage place, Union Hill, N. J., at Fort Hamilton
parkway and Eighty-sixth street.  Mary RUBIN, 30 of 311 high street,
Elmira, and Edna LOCKS, 24, of 703 Eat 156th street, Manhattan, and two
chauffeurs were treated by Dr. PAYNTER, of the Norwegian Hospital.

    Mrs. Anna STOTSKY, 58, of 168 East Second street, Manhattan, was
injured in trying to avoid an automobile yesterday at Mermaid avenue and
West Twenty-eighth street.  The woman was attended by Dr. HOROWITZ, of
Coney Island Hospital.


19 September 1923

MOB MENACES DRIVER FOR THE KILLING OF BOY

Salesman Held in $3,500 When Auto Crushes Joseph PENNISE, 4, Near
Sackett Street Home - Seven Others Injured in Auto Accidents - Baby
Rescued When Girl is Struck and Injured.

    Charged with suspicion of homicide in driving an automobile that
caused the death yesterday afternoon of Joseph PENNISE, four years old,
of 108 Sackett street, in Columbia street, near Sackett street, Jacob
HOROWITZ, 39 years old, salesman, of 968 Lafayette avenue appeared
before Magistrate BROWN, in fifth avenue court today, on complaint of
Detective William BEGLEY, of the Hamilton avenue station.  The defendant
pleaded not guilty, and was held in $3,500 bail for examination Friday.
    According to witnesses, HOROWITZ was operating his auto south on
Columbia street when the boy darted from behind a truck and dashed into
the side of the machine.  He was knocked to the ground and the rear
wheels passed over his head, crushing his skull.  HOROWITZ picked him up
and carried him to a nearby drug store.  A crowd gathered about the
autoist in a menacing manner.  Only the timely arrival of Patrolman
McKEON, it is believed, prevented the autoist from being robbed.  The
policeman placed the injured boy in the automobile and instructed
HOROWITZ to speed to the Long Island College Hospital.  The boy died
soon after the arrival at that institution.
    Joseph PINNISE, 4 years old, of 108 Sackett street, was killed
instantly yesterday when he was struck by an automobile owned and driven
by Jacob HOROWITZ, 936 Lafayette street.  The boy was crossing Columbia
near Sackett street, when struck by the machine.  HOROWITZ took the boy
to the Long Island College Hospital.

    John FRANKEMERO, 8, of 133 Sackett street, was injured when struck
by an automobile driven by Floyd MILLER, of 516 Fifty-third street, at
Union street and Fifth avenue.

    The detectives are seeking the driver of an automobile which struck
and injured Harold COMER, 7, of 427 Jamaica avenue, while he was
crossing Jamaica avenue near Cleveland street.

Girl Hurt, Baby Escapes.
    Bessie SCHWARTZ, 22, of 4311 Fifteenth avenue, pushing a baby
carriage in Thirteenth avenue near Forty-first street, was struck by an
automobile driven by Joseph KOENIG, of 1547 Seventy-seventh street.  The
woman was injured.  The baby escaped.(injury)

    Simon WATREOFSKY, 6, of 472 Rockaway avenue, was injured when struck
by an automobile owned by Herman WEBER, at Belmont and Rockaway avenues.

    Clarence S. GRANT, 20, of 620 East Fifteenth street, riding his
motorcycle in Bedford avenue near President street, when he collided
with an automobile owned and driven by Robert GUSSAROGG, of 1751 Union
street.  Grant was injured.

Taxicab Injures Man
    Jake SCHAVITZ, 75. of 116 Boerum street, was injured when he was
struck by an automobile owned by H.  WEISBERGER, of 212 Throop avenue.

    Timothy MAHONEY, of 322 Bergen street, driving a taxicab in Fulton
street near Myrtle avenue, struck and injured Martin KAN, 51 of 51 Smith
Street.


20 September 1923

September 20, 1923

Auto Accidents

    Peter CUNEO, 20 years old, of 27 Jones street, Manhattan, was
fatally injured when an automobile which he was operating crashed into
an elevated pillar at Fresh Pond road and Myrtle avenue, Ridgewood,
early this morning.  Four other passengers were in the auto.
    Three living at the same address were injured.  One of them, Miss
Margaret MALLON, 19 years old, suffered a possible fracture of the skull
and is in a critical condition in the Wyckoff Heights Hospital.  The
other passengers, Margaret MATHEWS, 23, Margaret TOBIN, 19, and Thomas
FAGAN, of 29 Jones street, received minor injuries, and after being
attended by Ambulance Surgeon Kahn of the Wyckoff Heights Hospital were
able to go home.  CUNEO died shortly after admission to the hospital,
without regaining consciousness.

    Five persons were injured last night in a collision between two
automobiles at Kingsland and Greenpoint avenues, Brooklyn.  An
automobile operated by Joseph FARRELL, of 369 East Sixty-second street,
Manhattan, turning into Kingsland avenue, collided with an automobile
operated by James McSPARRON, of 100 North Henry street, Brooklyn.
    The injured were Clara and Catherine McSPARRON, of 118 Eckford
street, Brooklyn, and Clara, Lillian and Charles BEGOCH, of 188 Green
street, Brooklyn.
    Michael SHEEHAN, 387 Bleecker street, and John POPPER, 25 Jones
street, both of Manhattan, escaped injury.

Child Injured by Auto
    George MILLER, 3, of 210 Hopkinson avenue, was taken to the Bushwick
Hospital with internal injuries, suffered when he was struck by an
automobile owned by James WILLIAMS, of 1550 Fulton street.

    Edna GOLDEN, 25, of 185 Hamilton avenue, was injured when the
automobile in which she was riding collided with another machine driven
by James FLANAGAN, of 511 Fortieth street, at Ocean and Fort Hamilton
parkways.

    Samuel COHEN, 52, of 31 Tompkins avenue, was injured when, standing
at Humbodt and Debevoise streets, an automobile owned by Julius V.
COHEN, of 21 Belvidere street, collided with another owned by Abraham
ROSENTHAL, of 472 Bushwick avenue.  ROSENTHAL's machine was forced upon
the sidewalk, striking Cohen

    Louis CIPERANO, 10, of 2336 Pacific street, hitching on the rear of
an automobile owned by J. D. SULLIVAN, of 2360 Fulton street, according
to the police, fell from the machine at Fulton near Sackman streets.
Dr. GRABER of Bradford Street Hospital attended the boy.

    James J. KENNY, 29, of 304 Quincy street, driving an automobile in
Fourth avenue, near Fifty-eighth street, collided with another owned by
Herman FISHER of 272 Seventy-fifth street.  KENNY was thrown from his
seat and injured.

    Angelo ABBODDI, 68, of 184 Withers street, crossing Graham avenue
and Grand street, was struck and injured by an automobile driven by
Nathaniel HICKS, of 102 Lorimer street.

Boy Seriously Hurt.
    James MANNING, 5, of 338 Broadway, crossing Bedford avenue and
Avenue K, was struck and seriously injured by an automobile driven by
Timothy WEINBERG, of 1971 Fulton street.

    Stephen L. KOEBELE, 45, of 487 Dean street, crossing Nassau and
Manhattan avenues was injured by an automobile driven by Louis LEVITT,
of North 12th street.

    James KENNY, 29, of 304 Q? street, driving an automobile in Fourth
avenue and Fift? street collided with another automobile owned and
driven by  ?man FISHER, 272 Sev? street and KENNY was injured.

    Agnes TECHINSKI, 28, of (unreadable) South Fifth street, was taken
to the St. Catherine's Hospital early today with injuries incurred when
the door of her husband's auto opened and she fell to the pavement in
Grand street.

    Hyman COHEN, 4?, of 264 South First street, driving a horse and
wagon at Franklin and India streets last night, was struck by an auto in
charge of   (unreadable) Rainbow, of 633 Bergen avenue, Bronx.  COHEN
was thrown to the pavement.  He went home after being attended by
Ambulance Surgeon BLANK of Beth Moses Hospital.

    Mary DEMPSEY, 13, of 782 Leonard street, crossing the roadway at
Manhattan avenue and Milton street last night was run down by a taxicab.
The chauffeur of which, the police say, kept on going.  She was taken
home by Ambulance Surgeon VIVIANO of St. Catherine's Hospital.


September 24, 1923

Thirteen persons were injured yesterday in automobile accidents in 
Brooklyn and vicinity.  Three of the victims were taken to hospitals, 
one of them in a critical condition.

Rocco PARINTI, 28 years old, a laborer, of 361 127th Street, 
Richmond Hill, is to-day in Jamaica Hosptial sufering from a 
fractured skull and bruises of the arms and legs.  He was struck 
by an automobile last ngiht while crossing at Metropolitan avenue 
and Audley street, Kew Gardens.  The machine was drive by Bernard WENZ, 
of Valley Stream.  Ambulance Surgeon YARVIN said the man was in a 
critical conddition.

George LOOMIS, 24, of 8420 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens, and 
Laura LOOMIS, 3 years old, of the same address, were injured when 
an automobile in which they were driving collided with another 
automobile at Hillside avenue and 118th street, Richmond Hill.  
The child's forehead was injured and George LOOMIS sustained 
lacerations of the scalp.  Both were able to go home after treatment.

William RUBMAN, 34, of 225 Tenth street, was taken to the 
Methodist Episcopal Hospital suffering from a fractured leg which 
he sustained when he was struck by an automobile driven by John OLSEN, 
of 239 Forth-eighth street, at Third avenue and Tenth street.

Edward GIBSON, 20, of 63 St. Felix street, was crossing at 
Marcy and Willoughby avenues when he was struck by an automobile.  
GIBSON was attended for abrasions and left for home.

Olf SUDERSEN, of 347 Fifty-sixth street, was driving his automobile 
in Fourth avenue, near Twentieth street, when the machine struck 
Itale TARDIO, 8, of 183 Twenty-first street.  The boy was taken to the 
Samaritan Hospital suffering from contusions of the face and chest.

George ZABLOWSKI, 25, of 26 Thatford avenue, sustained lacerations of 
the hand when he was struck by an automobile owned by Arthur JOHNSON, 
of 547 Howard avenue, at Pitkin and Rockaway avenues.  
ZABLOWSKI left for home.

Anna VALANO, of 25 North Elliott place, and Anna GREW, of 
86 North Elliott place, suffered lacerations when they were struck 
by an automobile owned and driven by H. HUDDERS, of 646 Prospect place, 
at Flatbush avenue and St. Edwards street.  Dr. HERTZ, of the 
Cumberland Street Hospital, attended the two girls and they left for home.

Marie LUKIN, 30, of 240 Keap Street, was taken to the 
Beth Moses Hospital suffering from internal injuries, which she 
sustained when she was struck by an automobile owned and driven by 
Jacob SEIDNO, of 609  Willoughby avenue.  The woman was crossing 
Broadway near Keap street when the accident happened.

Two men and a woman were injured when an automobile owned by 
Angelo YALE, of 1440 Fifth-sixth street, was in a collision with 
another driven by Frank REILLY, of 89 Vanderbilt avenue, at 
Benson and Eighteenth avenues.  The injured, who went home after 
being attended by Dr. FISCHER, of the Coney Island Hospital, are: 
Frank CARROLL, 35, of 458 Fifty-seventh street; Walter REILLY, 37, 
of 222 Fifty-seventh street, and Grace DEVOE, 31, of 355 Fifty-first street.

Betty GESINO, 25, of 281 Columbia street, sufffered a fracture of the 
arm when a taxicab in which she was riding collided with an automobile 
driven by William BENDER, of 34 Chapel street.  Dr. HERTZ, of the 
Cumberland Street Hospital, treated the woman and she went home.

The body of the youth killed Saturday noon in Fourth avenue, between 
Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets, when he was run over by an 
automobile truck, was identified yesterday at the Kings County Morgue 
as John HAMPEL, 14 years of age, of 273 Eighty-ninth street, 
by his father, Harry HAMPEL, who had the body removed home.

The boy was riding on his bicycle when he was apparently collided 
with the truck while trying to "hitch" onto it, according to the police.  
The truck is owned by the Mitchel Lumber Company, located at the foot of 
Bay Thirty-first street, and was driven by Thomas MINLEY, of 
8918 Eighteenth avenue.

One of the back wheels of the truck ran over the boy and he was 
dead on the arrival of an ambulance surgeon.  No arrest was made.

Slippery rails caused a crowded Reid avenue trolley car to crash 
into an automobile operated by Benjamin FRITSCH, of 
233 Beach Eighty-fifth street, Rockaway Beach, at Broadway and 
Stockton street.  The passengers in the car were badly shaken up 
and the automobile slightly damaged, but no one was injured.

September 25, 1923

Samuel WEISINGER, 24 years old, of 207 Graham avenue, was 
killed yesterday when an automobile owned and operated by 
William LARRUTO, of 53 Montrose avenue, ran him down at 
Graham and Montrose avenues.

Dr. STINGER, of the Cumberland Street Hospital, pronounced the 
man dead and took the body to the Stagg street station, where it 
lay for some time before being identified.  LARRUTO was arrested.

Eileen COPPINGER, 7, of 138 Fourth avenue, was truck by an 
automobile operated by Joseph STEIGERWALD, of Bayport, 
at Fourth avenue and Baltic street and died at the 
Methodist Episcopal Hospital, where she was rushed by the driver.  
The child had sustained a fracture of the skull.

Mary KURO, 29, of 726 Eastern Parkway, ws run down by an automobile at 
Eastern Parkway and Brooklyn avenue and sustained bruises of the chin 
and left arms.

Mabel WHITEHEAD, 5, of 706 Herkimer street, suffered contusions and 
abrasions of the right foot when struck by an automobile owned by 
Margaret CAUGHN, of 185 Newtown avenue, Astoria. The operator failed to 
stop after the accident and the police are investigating.  
Miss WHITEHEAD was attended by Dr. JOHNSON, of the Methodist Episcopal Hospital, 
and taken to her home.

Nettie WICHINSKY, 6, of 281 Twenty-third street, suffered 
concussion of the brain and a possible fracture of the skull when run 
down by an automobile oeprated by James B. GIVEN, JR. of 453 Ninth street, 
at Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street.  Dr. GIDHILL, of the 
Methodist Episcopal Hospital, removed the girl to that institution.

Martin FAY, 30, of 393 Stanhope street, a conductor on a 
Dekalb avenue trolley car, was collecting fares when struck by an 
automobile owned by the Brooklyn Edison which was standing at 
80 Dekalb avenue.  Dr. WALLACE, of the Brooklyn Hospital, 
treated FAY for slight injuries and he went home.

Joseph ROMANETTI, 46, of 812 Fifth avenue, while driving a horse and 
wagon at Fifth avenue and Thirty-second street was struck by an 
automobile operated by Isidore BRODERS, of 25 Ridge street, Manhattan.  
Dr. JOHNSON, of the Methodist Episcopal Hospital, attended ROMANETTI 
for contusions of the chest and right knee and abrasions of the 
scalp and took him home.

Irivng SHEAR, 2, of 8 Sutter avenue, was struck by an automobile at 
Barbey street and Sutter avenue, sustaining a fracture of the left leg.  
The operator of the machine, Isadore HOLLAND, of 610 Belmont avenue, 
was not held.

Carmine RUSSO, 5, of 475 Union street, suffered a possible fracture 
of the knee cap when struck by an automobile owned by the 
Blue Bird Wet Wash Company, of 261 First street, at Union and 
Hoyt streets.  The rear wheel pased over the boy's leg.  He remained 
at the Holy Family Hospital where he was taken by the operator of the car.

Three persons were injured when a motorcycle operated by Newton WASHINGTON, 
23, of 1452 Bergen street, swerved to the curb at Schnectady avenue and 
Dean street and upset, while attempting to avoid a collision with an automobile.  
WASHINGTON suffered contusions of the cheek as a result of being thrown 
to the street.

Charles ALEXANDER, 28, of 10 Utica avenue, who was riding in the side car, 
was taken to St. Mary's Hospital, suffering from a fracture of the skull.  
John WATKINS, 25, of 1696 Fulton street, suffered a fracture of the left 
ankle and went home.

An automobile owned and operated by Frank P. MARKEY, 21, of 
388 Sterling place, ran upon the sidewalk and crashed into a plate 
glass window of a saloon at Atlantic and Park avenues.  
The automobile broke down the front door of the saloon and came to the 
halt when it crashed into the bar.  The force of the impact threw 
MARKEY and George BARTELL, 24, of 375 Sterling place, who was riding 
in the auto, over the bar.

BARTELL aided his companion to a nearby physician, where he was treated for 
injuries of the head.  Witnesses asserted that something happened to 
MARKEY's steering gear, but could not say just what it was.

Louis GARDENSTEIN, 53, of 96 Morgan avenue, was driving a horse and wagon at 
Broadway and Hewes street, when it was struck by a Broadway trolley car and 
thrown against an automobile owned by Lawrence MORAN, of 23 Vincent street, 
Queens, which was standing at the curb.  GARDENSTEIN was thrown from his wagon, 
sustaining a possible fracture of the skull and cuts on the face.  He was 
taken to the Beth Moses Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon BLANK.

Zytas DEBROWLOSKY, of 28 Fillmore place, was crossing Roebling street at 
Fillmore place, when he was run down by an automobile owned by the 
Ladd Motor Company, of 1491 Bedford avenue, and operated by Harry RAHAL, 
of 9103 102nd Street, Richmond Hill.  The boy was taken to Greenpoint 
Hospital suffering from body bruises and a possible fracture of the skull.

David WALDMAN, 12, of 368 Wallabout street, was playing on a picket fence 
in front of his home when he fell and his left leg was caught on one 
of the pickets.  He was released by a pedestrian and attended by Ambulance 
Surgeon BLANK for lacerations of the leg and bruises of the face and head.


September 26, 1923

An attempt to lynch Lawrence GORMLEY, 25 years old, a chauffeur, 
of 10737 107th street, Richmond Hill, after an automobile truck 
he was driving had run down and instantly killed 
Frances CALLABRESE, six, of 498 Metropolitan avenue, at 
Conselyea street and Union avenue yesterday, was frustrated by 
Patrolman Edward NOLL, of the Herbert street station.

When NOLL heard cries of "Lynch him" from a number of men and 
woman who had gathered in the crowd of nearly 100 persons, he 
rushed GORMLEY into a nearby paint shop and telphoned for the 
reserves.  They responded in the patrol wagon in charge of 
Sergt. HOPKINS and it was only after considerable difficulty 
that they were able to get GORMLEY from his hiding place into 
the wagon and rush him to the station house.  As the police 
departed with their prisoner missles were hurled after them.

The girl was on her way from a nearby school with her books tucked 
under her arm and according to witnesses, ran across the street 
just as the truck owned by A.S. Elliott, of 351 Rockaway avenue, 
swerved from Union avenue into Conselyea street. GORMLEY quickly 
put on the brakes, but he was unable to stop the vehicle until it 
had struck the child and the right front wheel had passed 
over her neck.

Ambulance Surgeon CARDINALE, of Greenpoint Hospital, 
who was summoned, pronounced the child dead.  As soon as 
the crowd heard this they swarmed about the chauffeur and 
were about to attack him when then policeman arrived.  
GORMLEY was locked up on a technical charge of homicide.  
He will be taken to-day to the Bridge Plaza court.

Mary KROMER, 3?, of 8920 Eighty-seventh street, Woodhaven, 
and her son, Harold, 7, were injured slightly when an 
automobile in which they were riding, driven by George KROMER, 
collided with another car at Forest Parkway and 
Eighty-sixth street, Woodhaven.

Walter EPSTEIN, 11, of 277 Reid avenue, was struck by an 
automobile driven by Adele SHAUM, of 2348 Flushing avenue.  
The boy was taken to the Swedish Hospital suffering from 
internal injuries.  The accident happend at Reid avenue and 
McDougal street.

Joseph CANILLERI, 84, of 636 Bergen street, while crossing 
Underhill avenue and Bergen street, was struck by an automobile 
owned and operated by William BEST, of 2343 East Fifteenth street 
Flatbush.  Ambulance Surgeon MORSE took CANILLERI to the 
Jewish Hospital, suffering from lacerations of the scalp and a 
possible fracture of the skull.

Roman SOVEL, 14, of 528 Warwick street, while riding his bicycle at 
Belmont avenue and Warwick street, was struck by an automobile 
owned by the Westcott Express Company, of 215 Eleventh avenue, 
Manhattan.  The boy was taken to the Kings County Hospital 
suffering from lacerations of the lips.

Three men were injured when an automobile truck owned by 
Berrian Brothers, of 30 Wallabout Market, coliided with a 
taxicab owned by Benjamin SCHWEITZER, of 196 Orchard street, 
Manhattan, on the east roadway of the Manhattan Bridge.

SCHWEITZER told the police that he was changing a shoe on his 
machine when the truck, which was driven by Gustave WILLIS, of 
73 Surman avenue, Maspeth, ran into the taxicab without wraning.[warning?]

SCHWEITZER suffered lacerations of the body and head.  
Ralph WITHIN, 23, of 827 Clinton avenue, the Bronx, was attended 
for lacerations of the face, and Alexander IRVING, 29, of 
923 Crown street, suffered bruises of the face and body.  
Dr. HERTZ, of the Cumberland Street Hospital, attended the injured.  
IRVING and WITHIN were passengers in the taxicab and had gotten 
out of the machine to help SCHWEITZER.

WILLIS said he did not see the taxi in the darkness.  
He was not detained as the police were satisfied that the collision 
was accidental.

John MARRSE, 34, of 9 Spring street, fell from an automobile owned by 
John ALBANESE, of 251 Elizabeth street, Manhattan, at 
Prospect Park Southwest.  MARRSE suffered a fracture of the leg and 
was taken to the Methodist Episcopal Hospital.

Hannah CORINA, 9, of 75 Henry street, was attended at her home for 
contusions of the body which she sustained when she was struck by an 
automobile owned by George BATTLES, of 308 Lexington avenue, at 
High and Washington streets.

Antonio PETRONO, 36, of 7806 Fifteenth avenue, was changing shoes on 
his automobile at Fourth avenue and Forty-third street when he was 
struck by an automobile owned by driven by Dietrick WORTMAN, of 
116 Lexington avenue, Manhattan.  PETRONO was attended at the 
Norwegian Hospital for contusions and lacerations.

Garry MORMAN, 40, of 178 Coffey street, suffered lacerations of the 
head when an automobile owned and driven by Henry DEYS, of 
1278 East Eight street, in which he was riding, collided with a 
Long Island Railroad pillar at Nostrand and Atlantic avenues.  
Dr. LIVINGSTON, of the Jewish Hospital, attended MORMAN and he 
left for home.

Virginia HEMMINGTON, 3, of 390 Seventeenth street, was crossing 
Seventeenth street when she was struck by an automobile driven by 
Estella VANCE, of 315 Greene avenue.  Dr. STILLWELL, of the 
Methodist Episcopal Hospital, attended the child for a fractured 
arm and she was taken home.

Tony PEALILLS, 7, of 308 Fifth street, suffered lacerations of the head 
when he was struck by an autombile at Third street and Fourth avenue.  
The boy received treatment at the Methodist Episcopal Hospital and left 
for home.  The driver of the machine failed to stop.

Isadore KOENIG, of 757 Vermont street, was driving his automobile in 
Harway avenue near Bay Forty-seventh street when the machine struck 
Edward GREGORY, 7, of 2791 Harway avenue.  The boy was attended at 
his home for lacerations.

Michael MINTELLI, 10, of 2095 Atlantic avenue, was stealing a ride on an 
automobile owned and driven by Max FOMAN, of 178 Amboy street, according 
to the police, when he fell at Hull street and Atlantic avenue.  
The boy was taken to St. Mary's Hospital suffering from a 
fracture of the ankle.

Bobby GASSUTTI, 4, of 1263 Sixty-fifth street, was struck by an automobile 
owned by Joseph GORDON, of 519 East Thirty-fifth street, at Eleventh avenue 
Sixty Fifth street.  The boy suffered contusions of the face and was taken home.

Three-year-old Joseph BRAND, of 556 Crown street, is in the 
Peck Memorial Hospital suffering from a possible fracture of the skull.  
He was playing at Albany avenue and Crown street when an auto truck, 
driven by Harold LINCOLN, of 24 St. Nicholas avenue, knocked him down 
when the vehicle was in collision with a machine driven by 
Joseph FLIPPEN, of 905 Kent avenue.

Philip COLLETTE, 41, of 316 Bond street, suffered a possible fracture of the 
ribs when his wagon collided with an automobile owned by Edward STERN, 
of 233 West 106th street, Manhattan, at Nevins and Dean [?] streets. 
COLLETTE was taken to the Cumberland Street Hospital.

William LARRATO, of 53 Montrose avenue, was held in the Bridge Plaza court 
on a technical charge of homicide in connection with the death of 
Samuel WEISINGER, of 207 Graham avenue, who was killed Monday night 
while crossing Graham avenue at Montrose avenue, when struck by 
LARRATO's automobile, according to the police.


September 28, 1923

Automobile accidents reported to the Brooklyn police yesterday were fewer 
than they have been for some time.  In all, nine persons were injured, of 
whom seven are children.

Dorothy CURLEY, 3 years old, of 224 Myrtle avenue, while crossing at Myrtle 
avenue and Navy street, was struck by an automobile owned by Benjamin 
GINSBERG, of 573 Myrtle avenue.  She sustained abrasions of the face and went 
home after treatment.

Norman ROSENBERG, 4, of 119 Washington street, while crossing at Washington 
and Nassau streets, was struck by an automobile driven by Edward PAIGE, of 
427 Monroe street.  After being treated for lacerations of the legs and face 
the boy went home.

Peter RUNITO, 5, of 1319 Fifth-ninth street, while crossing in front of his 
home, was struck by an automobile owned by Harry CHARFEN, of 892 Haliday 
place, the Bronx.  The boy was treated for contusions and abrasions of the 
feet and face and went home.

Joseph LARMARCO, 10, of 558 Driggs avenue, while crossing at North Seventh 
street and Driggs avenue, was struck by an automobile driven by George MAGGE, 
of 9129 108th street, Richmond Hill.  The boy was attended for abrasions of 
the scalp and went home.

Salvatore NAZZATLIN, 5, of 179 Starr street, is i the Wyckoff Heighs Hospital 
suffering from lacerations of the scalp and a possible fracture of the skull. 
 He was crossing Knickerbocker and Willoughby avenues when an automobile 
owned buy John KEISLING, of ?12 Judge street, hit him.

Frances KELLY, 5, of 131 Rutledge street, was struck by an automobile driven 
by Charles KIENILE, of 1916 Palmetto street, while crossing at Marcy avenue 
and Hewes street.  She went home after being attended for lacerations of the 
left leg and scalp.

George GILL, 32, of 5920 Fourth avenue, and James CUMMINGS, 20, of 249 
Fifth-eighth street, suffered lacerations when they were struck by an 
automobile owned and driven by Knut F. JOHNSON, of 267 Ninety-third street, 
at Fourth avenue and Sixthy-fourth street.  Both men were attended at the 
Norwegian Hospital and left for home.

Marie MEEHAN, 12, of 117 Butler street, was alighting from a Smith street 
trolley car at Butler street when she was struck by an automobile driven by 
Edward TRINELER, of 30 Suydam street.  Dr. FISHBEIN, of the Holy Family 
Hospital, attended the girl for contusions and she was taken home.

Seven children and three adults were injured yesterday in automobile 
accidents in Brooklyn.  Three of the victims were rushed to hospitals, 
suffering from skull fractures.

While crossing the street at Throop and Lafayette avenues last night Harriet 
FARBMAN, 5 years old, of 777 Lafayette avenue, was struck and knocked down by 
an automobile owned and driven by Owen SHERIDAN, of 86 Sterling place.  
Patrolman McCARTHY, of the Gates avenue station, rushed the child in 
SHERIDAN's machine to the Bikur Cholim Hospital, where Dr. SANDBERG said she 
had sustained a possible fracture of the skull.

Nicholas DE ANGELO, 9, of 2264 Atlantic avenue, was taken to St. Mary's 
Hospital in a critical condition suffering from a possible fracture of the 
skull, which he sustained when he was struck by an automobile owned and 
driven by Leon LURIE, of 72 Van Buren street, at Pleasant place and Atlantic 
avenue.

Abraham TOMASHESKY, 13, of 1037 Fifth-third street, was riding his bicycle in 
Fifty-third street, near Seventh avenue, when he was struck by an automobile 
owned and driven by Ralph TOBIN, of 526 Ovington avenue.  Dr. TRYMEN of the 
Israel-Zion Hospital, had the boy taken to that institution suffering from 
internal injuries.

Loretta BODENE, 28, of 1719 Himrod street, suffered lacerations of the face 
in an automobile collision.  She was riding in an automobile driven by Arthur 
ALTER, of 1719 Himrod street, when it was struck by another machine owned and 
driven by Barney KLEIN, of 323 Bank street, Newark, N.J. The accident 
occurred at Lafayette and Reid avenues.  The woman left for home after 
treatment by Dr. HERBERT, of the Bushwick Hospital.

While riding on the tailboard of an automobile, Joseph ABATE, 46, of 2855 
Pacific street, suffered a possible fracture of the skull when he fell off 
the car at Rochester avenue and St. Johns place.  He was taken to St. Johns 
Hospital by Dr. SMITH.  The auto is owned by Giuseppe DE MARIO of 1690 St. 
Marks avenue.

John J. HAGAN of 255 Forth-ninth street was driving his automobile in 
Forty-first street, near Third avenue, when the machine struck Joseph HARAN, 
6, of 254 Forty-second street.  The boy suffered abrasions and had his 
injuries dressed at the Norwegian Hospital.

Henry DAY, 10, of 293 Ralph avenue, was taken to St. Mary's Hospital 
suffering from a possible fracture of the skull, which he sustained when he 
was struck by an automobile owned and driven by Barnet ROTKIN of 280 Grafton 
street.  The boy was crossing Ralph avenue near Fulton street when the 
accident occurred.

Edward DE MARIO. of 14 President street, suffered lacerations when an 
automobile in which he was riding collided with another driven by John 
LINDSAY, of 6 Second street, on the main roadway of the Manhattan Bridge.  DE 
MARIO was treated by an ambulance surgeon and left for home.

Elizabeth HOFFMAN, 8, of 30 Alabama avenue, was playing in front of 2547 
Atlantic avenue when she was struck by an automobile owned and driven by 
Louis KEIFER, of 249 Ashford street.  Dr. MATTHEWS. of the Bradford Street 
Hospital, attended the child for abrasions and she was taken home.

Abrasions of the body were sustained by William POLICOFF, 6, of 186 Division 
avenue, when he was struck by an automobile driven by Andrew SAPERZA, of 84 
South Tenth street, at Marcy avenue and Broadway.  Dr. CARDINALE, of the 
Greenpoint Hospital, attended the boy.

September 29, 1923

Three lives were snuffed out by automobiles in Brooklyn and Long Island 
yesterday, the victims being a woman and two children.  Fourteen persons 
were injured in other motor car accidents.

In a head-on collision between automobiles at Grand and Eighth avenues, 
Astoria, last night, the woman and a two-year-old girl were killed, while 
a three-year-old boy was run over and instantly killed earlier in the day at 
Hudson avenue and Water street.

In the fatal Astoria crash, Mrs. Ida LITZNER, 55 years old, of 24 Prospect street, 
Long Island City, died at once, while Irma HANRAHAN, 2 years old, of 35 McKinley 
avenue, Hempstead, died later in the ambulance on the way to St. John's Hospital.

Stephen CHARMOWSKY, 3 years old, of 16 Little street, was the victim of the 
Brooklyn accident.  An auto truck owned and driven by Louis PAPALLUPE, of 332 
Second street, ran Stephen down as he was crossing the street. He died instantly.

Joseph S. DOWLING, of 19 Welling street, Astoria, was driving north on Eighth 
avenue when he spied an automobile coming east on Grand avenue.  Both he and the 
driver of the second automobile, Carl A. LITZNER, 24 Prospect street, Long Island 
City, clamped down brakes and halted at the juncture of the two avenues.

Then, due to mistaken signals, the police believe, both operators stepped on the 
accelerators practically at the same instant.  The LITZNER car is said to have 
swung into Eighth avenue, smashing head-on into the other machine.

Citizens and police rushed to the scene to extricate the occupants of the cars 
which were virtually completely wrecked.  Mrs. LITZNER, who was LITZNER's aunt, 
was found dead, but little Irma HANRAHAN, who was in the LITZNER car, was still 
alive and was rushed at once to the hospital.

Walter HANRAHAN, 35, Irma's father, and his wife, Irma, 32, suffered contusions of 
the scalp, but were able to go home after being attended by Drs. LEVI and FORELICK, 
of St. John's Hospital.

Nobody in the DOWLING car was killed.  But Mrs. Marie LORETH, 39 years old, of 391 
Hopkins avenue, Astoria, suffered a possible fracture of the skull, while her 
daughter Helen, 8 years old, sustained injuries to her scalp and body. 
Mrs. LORETH was taken to the hospital and Helen sent home.  DOWLING and LITZNER 
were slightly hurt.

As soon as the dead and wounded were attended to, police began an investigation 
of the accident, aided by Assistant District Attorney William GROAT.  No arrests 
were made.

The car driven by DOWLING was owned by Walter KEPNER and Henry CATT, of 1975 
First avenue, Mahattan, Litzner owned the machine he drove.


October 2, 1923

Two women and a man were injured last night when the automobile in which 
they were riding at Saratoga avenue and Decatur street swerved to avoid 
collision with another machine and struck the curbstone, falling over on its side.

The machine, driven by Arthur WILLEX, of 426 Rogers avenue, was traveling 
west on Decatur street.  When WILLEX observed that a collision with a 
machine driven by Nathan GALVIN, 27, of 1621 Sterling place, traveling 
south in Saratoga avenue, was imminent, he swerved sharply to the right side. 
The right rear wheel of his machine struck the curbstone and the car landed on 
its side on the sidewalk.

Mrs. Elizabeth HAGGERTY, of 1242 Dean Street, and Adele ANDERSON, 24, 
also of 1242 Dean street, who were riding in the car driven by WILLEX, 
were thrown to the street.  Mrs. HAGGERTY was taken to the Bushwick 
Hospital suffering from probable internal injruies.  Dr. LIEFRIED treated 
the ANDERSON woman and GALVIN, who suffered contusions of the hands and arms.

No arrests were made, the police stating the accident was caused by a 
misunderstanding of the signals.

Marie SAULL, 33, of 18 Herzl street, was riding in an automobile driven by 
Morris WATCHINSKY, of 121 St. Marks place, when it coliided with another 
machine owned and driven by Arthur THOMPSON, of 1677 Sixty-eight street, 
at Fulton and Wyona streets.  Dr. SATTI, of the Bradford Street Hospital, 
attended the woman for contusions, and she left for home.

Louis SCHAEFFER, of 1773 Sterling place, was driving an automobile in 
Miller avenue, near Belmont avenue, when the machine struck Caroline PARKER, 
8?, of 298 Bradford street.  The girl was attended at her home for abrasions 
of the legs.

Abrasions of the body were suffered by Peter STYHANG, 4, of 471 Fifty-fourth
 street, when he was struck by an automobile owned and driven by George 
MacPherson of 551 Fifth-fourth street.  The child was crossing Fifth avenue near 
Fifty-fourth street when the accident happened.  He was attended and taken home.

Benjamin WEINSTAT, 16, of 1507 Lincoln place, was riding his bicycle in 
front of his home when he was struck by an automobile owned and driven by 
Dr. GETTELSON, of 2415 Beverly road.  The youth was attended at St. Mary's 
Hospital for a fracture of the right arm and shoulder.  He left for home later.

Catherline KOHNER, 11, of 536 Warwick street, suffered a fracture of the 
left knee when, while crossing Bushwick avenue near Eastern parkway, 
she was struck by an automobile driven by Peter INCORELLEN, of 106 
Wilson avenue.  The girl was taken to St. Mary's Hospital by Dr. RUFFUS.

Mary HANSON, 22, of 558 East 158th street, and Edith ERHARDT, 27, of 807 
St. Ann's avenue, both in the Bronx, suffered lacerations when an automobile 
in which they were riding was in collision with another machine driven by 
James RYAN, of 407 Seventeenth street.  Both women were attended and left for home.

Lilly FACHIN, 11, of 1206 Herkimer street, was riding in an automobile driven 
by John J. STRAUA, of 58 Elizabeth street, when the machine was in collision 
with another owned and driven by Sheppard JOHNSON, of 1679 Atlantic avenue, 
at Atlantic and New York avenues.  The girl was attended for lacerations of 
the face and head and was taken home.

Harry SILLETTI, 3, of 425 Eighty-ninth street, was playing in front 
of his home when he was struck by an automobile owned by Charkles CZALEMOWSKI, 
of 8923 Fifth avenue.  Dr. CLARK, of the Israel-Zion Hsopital, attended the 
child for lacerations and took him home.

Cornelius OREADON, 12, of 737 Fifty-eighth street, was taken to the 
Norwegian street, suffering from internal injuries, which he sustained 
when he was struck by an automobile while roller-skating in Fifty-eighth 
street near Seventh avenue.

Celia KULICK, 36, of 117 McClean avenue, Yonkers, suffered abrasions of the 
hands when an automobile owned by Joseph HANLON, of 121 Chester avenue, 
Yonkers, and in which she was a passenger, collided with another machine 
driven by Julius CHENUO, of 53 South Eighteenth street, Flushing, at 
Chester avenue and Clara street.  KULICK's machine also struck Margy GLASSHEIM, 
27, of 556 East Fourth street, who was walking on the sidewalk near the scene 
of the accident.  Both women were attended for slight injuries by Dr. BRECK, 
of the Kings County Hospital.

An unidentified man is in the Holy Family Hospital suffering from a possible 
fracture of the skull, which he suffered when he was struck, according to the 
police, by an automobile owned and driven by Alexander PILOT, of
7622 Sixteenth avenue.  PILOT took the man to the hospital and then notified 
the police of the Bergen street station who are trying to clear up the man's 
identity.  The man is described as 35 years old, 6 feet tall and weighing 180 
pounds.  He is clean shaven and wore a pepper and salt colored suit and brown 
hat.  He had two American flags tattooed on each arm.

Hillard HYMAN, 35, of 61 St. Felix street, was crossing Willoughby street near 
Flatbush avenue extension when he was struck by an automobile owned by 
Irving HELTIN, of 1366 Madison avenue, Manhattan.  HYMAN was attended for 
contusions at the Cumberland Street Hospital.

Barbara and Stanley HANDLER, of 1092 President street, suffered lacerations when 
an automobile owned and driven by Samuel FEINER, of 1038 Eighty-third street, 
in which they were riding, collided with another machine owned and driven by 
Sabastino ROGANASA, of 137 Twenty-first street, at Church and Rogers avenue.  
The injured were attended and left for home.

Antonio ACKERINO, 32, of 947 Franklin avenue, suffered lacerations of the face 
and head when the windshield of an automobile owned and driven by Stephen MALONE, 
624 Franklin avenue, in which he was riding, was broken.

Two automobiles coliided at Whitestone avenue and Higgins lane, Whitestone, 
but none of the occupants was injured.  Fritz WEIDELL, of 851 Seventh avenue, 
College Ppoint, was driving south on Whitestone avenue towards Flushing, when 
his machine collided with a car being driven in the opposite direction by 
Richard GARTLEMAN, of Willetts' Point road, whitestone.  Both machines were damaged.

Margaret O'CONNELL, of Fifteenth avenue and Thirty-third street, was driving 
south on Bell avenue at Broadway, Bayside, when her machine was struck by a 
commercial car which was being operated north on Bell avenue by Frank RATHJEN, 
of 71 Vernon avenue, Long Island City. The fenders of both machines were damaged 
by no one was injured.

An automobile bus, operated by Harry HARRIS, of 220 Rodney street, 
crashed into a one-man trolley car of the Nassau avenue line at Nassau avenue
 and Newell street, in charge of Edward YARMOWICH, of 170 Eckford street.  
Three persons were injured and many badly shaken up.

The injured are Mrs. Margaret LUENGENE, 55, of 1085 Myrtle avenue, 
cuts on the face and head; George NOLAN, 32, of 6317 Third avenue, 
dislocated right shoulder and lacerations of the scalp, and Jacob THORSERE, 
68, of 611 Morgan avenue, cuts on the face and head.  They were attended by 
Ambulance Surgeon ALWICK, of the Greenpoint Hospital and went home.  
The accident was due to a misunderstanding in signals.

October 3, 1923

Dominick SASTIGANOLA, 10 years old, of 157 Withers street, died in the 
Greenpoint Hospital last night from a fracture of the skull, sustained 
when he was struck by an automobile, according to the police, operated 
by Rafaelo PALMA, a contractor, 30, of 639 Lorimer street.

The boy was crossing in front of his home when the accident happened.  
PALMA brought the machine to a quick stop, placed the boy in it, and 
rushed him to the hospital.  The boy succumbed to his injuries soon after.

The contractor was arrested on a technical charge of homicide by Patrolman 
James SEYMOUR, of the Herbert street station, and will be taken to the Bridge 
Plaza Court to-day.

Detectives of the Wilson avenue station are to-day searching for the owner and 
driver of an automobile which yesterday struck Joseph LEBAC, 9, of 292 Stanhope 
street, at Irving avenue and Stanhope street.  The boy was taken to the 
Wyckoff Heights Hospital suffering from contusions of the body.

John McGINTY, 39, of 1310 Herkimer street, was taken to the Kings County 
Hospital suffering from lacerations of the scalp which he sustained when he was 
struck by an automobile owned and driven by Harry BRESLAU, of 916 Sutter avenue, 
at Fulton street and Van Sindern avenue.

Louis EDWARDS, 44, of 852 Fifth-fourth street, conductor on a Fifth avenue 
trolley car, and John NATOVANO, 65, of 215 First street, a passenger on the car, 
suffered lacerations when they were swept off the running board by an automobile 
which was standing at the curb at Fifth avenue and Union street.  The 
automobile is owned by F. PHAIR, of 1061 Myrtle avenue.  Dr. NUSSBAUM, of the 
Holy Family Hospital, attended the injured persons.

Olaf FLAK, 28, of 530 Fifty-fifth street, was taken to the Norwegian Hospital 
in a critical condition suffering from a fracture of the skull, which he 
received when he was struck by an automobile owned and driven by John SEWARD, 
of 358 Seventy-ninth street.

Benjamin WOLFSON, of 2159 Pacific street, was driving his automobile in 
Howard avenue, near Pitkin avenue, when the machine struck Max KANEETSKY, 
11, of 53 Howard avenue. The boy suffered concussion of the brain and was 
taken to St. Mary's Hospital.

While crossing in front of his home, Enrico CAROCA, 4, of 22 St. Edwards street, 
was struck by an automobile driven by Anicelo TORES, of 439 Herkimer street.  
The boy suffered a fracture of the left leg and was taken to the Holy Family Hospital.

Morris KAFFLER, 37, of 128 Wallabout street, is in the Kings County Hospital 
suffering from a possible fracture of the right hip.  While trying to board 
his automobile he was struck by another car driven by Santana PRISCELLI, of 
539 Eighteenth street.

James GALLAGHER, 50, of 87 James street, Manhattan, while crossing at 
Fourth avenue and Twenty-third street, was struck by an automobile driven 
by Joseph SLADER,  of 25 Breekman street, Mt. Vernon.  GALLAGHER went home 
after being attended for contusions of the back.

Robert MURPHY, 10, of 2506 Albemarle road, while crossing at Rogers avenue 
and Albemarle road was struck by an automobile owned and driven by 
F.W. SCOWERS, of 311 West Sixty-sixth street, Manhattan.  The boy 
suffered abrasions of the head.

John DEVELAN, 8, of 273 Rutland road, while crossing at Rogers avenue 
and Parkside avenue was struck by an automobile owned and driven by 
Pauline GARLICK, of 91 Woodruff avenue.  The boy went home after being 
treated for contusions of the scalp.


5 October 1923

Loretta GILMAN, 22 years old, of 408 Monroe street, is in St. John's Hospital 
to-day suffering from a fracture of the skull.  She is reported in a 
serious condition.  She was crossing at Gates and Throop avenues 
yesterday when an automobile owned and driven by Benjamin GRIFFEN, 
of 240 Madison street, struck her, according to the police.

Kathaleen ARLINGTON, 4, of 279 Vanderbilt avenue, while crossing at 
Vanderbilt and DeKalb avenues, was struck by an automobile owned by 
John H. DOSCHER, of 320 Fourteenth street.  The girl was treated for 
lacerations of the scalp and went home.

Abe MILLEROWITZ, 37, of 101 Johnson avenue, was crossing at 
South Third and Rodney streets, when he was struck by an autombile 
owned by Joseph LEFKOWITZ, of 144 Penn street. MILLEROWITZ was 
attended for probable internal injuries and went home.

John McDONOUGH, 53, of 399 Bond street, while crossing Bergen and 
Bond streets, was struck by an automobile driven by John Clarke, of 
640 Chauncey street. McDONOUGH was trated for lacerations of the 
scalp and went home.

Henry SCOTT, 38, of 17 Cooper street, while crossing at Fifth avenue and 
Sixty-first street, was struck by an automobile owned by 
Dr. Nicholas SALVELLO, of 4 De Forrest street, Summit, 
N.J.  SCOTT was taken to the Norwegian Hospital suffering from a fracture of 
the right leg.

Robert BENDINO, 4, of 51 North Elliott place, was crossing the street in 
front of his home when he was struck by an automobile owned and driven by 
William EMMONE, of 220 Sumpter street.  The boy was attended at his home 
for contusions of the body.

Lacerations of the scalp were suffered by William FABACTS, 9, of 
228 South Third street, when he was struck by a taxicab driven by 
John J. LASSA, of 58 West Sixty-sixth street, Manhattan, at Roebling and 
South Third streets.  Dr. MARX, of St. Catharine's Hospital, attended the boy.

Albana WILSON, 23, of 29 Prince street, was attended at her home for 
contusions of the hip which she sustained when she was struck by an automobile 
driven by George THOMAS, of 266 Dean street.  the woman was crossing the street 
in front of her home when the accident happened.

Solomon MOUTER, 58, of 21 Humboldt street, suffered contusions of the back 
when a Graham avenue trolley car in which he was a passenger, was struck by 
an automobile owned and driven by Charles STRATTER, of 901 Lafayete avenue, 
at Graham avenue and Cook street.  The force of the impact threw MOUTER 
from his seat to the floor of the car.  Dr. WICK, of the Greenpoint Hospital, 
attended him.

Marie HOFFMAN, 30, of 21 Patchen avenue, was crossing at Washington and 
High streets, when she was struck by an automobile owned and driven by 
Edward J. COHEN, of 1180 President street.  The woman was taken to the 
Cumberland Street Hospital suffering from a fracture of the foot.

Charles MATALE, 17, of 558 Third avenue, was riding his bicycle in Fourth avenue, 
near First street, when he was struck by an automobile driven by Tony SALVO, of 
292 First street.  The youth was attended for abrasions and left for home.

Alfred PZAYANAS, 5, of 241 Humboldt street, was standing in front of his home when 
he was struck by an automobile, sustaining lacerations of the head. Dr. BURKE, of 
St. Catherine's Hospital, attended the boy.

William SODNIK, 27, of 2627 Harway? avenue, was taken to the Kings County Hospital 
suffering from a fracture of the right knee.  He was struck by an automobile as he 
was crossing Mermaid avenue near West Fifteenth street.

Sidney SIMON, of 218 Atlantic avenue, suffered a fracture of the pelvis when 
he fell from an automobile at Waverly and Flushing avenues.  He was taken to 
the Cumberland Street Hospital.

October 6, 1923

Nearly a score of persons were injured yesterday in Brooklyn
automobile accidents.
While four of the victims were taken to hospitals, none are reported in
serious condition.

Joseph SORENTINO, 7 years old, of 90 High street, was playing in
front of his home when he was struck by an automobile owned and 
operated by Anthony DeMARCO, of 179 South Ninth street.  
The boy was taken to the Cumberland Street Hospital suffering 
from a fracture of the left leg and lacerations of the scalp.

Morris SCHOFT, of 1859 Bergen street, was driving his automobile in
Bergen street when the machine struck Frank DELIO, 4, of 1815 
Bergen street. The boy was attended for abrasions of the face.

Eva HOFFMAN, 9, of 35 Watkins street, was attended at her home for
lacerations of the face,which she sustained when she was struck 
by an automobile owned and driven by William KARNOWSKY, of 
809 Belmont avenue, at Fulton and Norwood avenue.

Phillip PETERS, 34, of 476 State street, suffered abrasions of the face
when his automobile collided with another driven by Nathan TICE, 
at Classon and Willoughby avenues.  PETERS was attended at the 
Cumberland Street Hospital and left for home.

Lillian FELTBAUM, 39, and Anna KAHN, 44, both of 1241 Ocean parkway,
suffered contusions and lacerations when they were struck by a 
U.S. Mail truck driven by Arthur MANN, of 364 Eighty-fifth street, 
at Beverly road and East Twelfth street.  Dr. SOPPLE, of Kings C
ounty Hospital, attended the women.

His Hip Dislocated
Thomas KENNELLY, 31, of 163 High street, was standing at Gold and Nassau
streets when he was struck by an automobile owned and driven by Peter
JENKINS, of 251 Bedford avenue.  KENNELLY sustained a probable
dislocation of the right hip.

Harry KATZ, 12, of 2010 Dean street, was playing in front of his home
when he was struck by an automobile driven by Morris ROSENBLATT, of 418
Georgia avenue.  The boy was taken to St. Marks Hospital suffering from
a probable fracture of the leg.

Tessie PALORNO, 12, of 33 Snediker avenue, was taken to the Kings County
Hospital suffering from a possible fracture of the skull, which she
suffered when she was struck by an automobile owned and driven by Frank
PASCALE, of 639 Shepherd avenue, at Atlantic and Snediker avenues.

Frank KELLY, 7, of 105 Concord Street, while playing at Pearl and
Concord streets, was struck by a taxicab driven by Frank EWART, of 49
West 117th street, Manhattan.  The boy was attended for lacerations of
the body.

Morris BERLA, 18, of 150 Graham avenue, was riding his bicycle at Seigel
and Leonard streets when he was struck by an automobile owned and driven
by Harry HERSCHENBAUM, of 150 Seigel street.  The youth was attended for
contusions and left for home.

Receives Minor Hurts.
  Leo FIELDS, 30, of 110 Ross street, while crossing at Smith and
Livingston streets, was struck by an automobile owned and driven by
Robert DAWIZO, of 47 East Twenty-fourth street. FIELDS suffered
contusions of the scalp and nose.

  George REDMOND, 3, of 153 Thirty-fourth street, while crossing  in
front of his home, was struck by an automobile owned and driven by
Benjamin SMITH, of 41 East Forty-second street, Manhattan.  The boy
suffered abrasions of the scalp.

  William T. GARDNER, 79, of 350 Southside avenue, Freeport, while
crossing in front of 24 Court street, was frightened by an approaching
automobile and fell to the street, sustaining a fracture of the right
arm. He was taken to the Long Island College Hospital by Dr. DENNISON.

  Ralph CARBELLO, 8, of 256 Twelfth street, while crossing at Fourth
avenue and Twelfth street, was struck by an automobile owned and driven
by Joseph FARRELL, of Locust Valley.  The boy suffered a fracture of the
left collar bone and went home after treatment.

  Carmine ROSALTO, 11, of 294 North Sixth street while crossing at Grand
and Havemeyer streets, was struck by an automobile driven by Thomas
SULLIVAN of 430 West Thirtieth street, Manhattan.  The boy suffered
contusions of the body and went home after treatment.

October 7, 1923

Fourteen persons were injured in traffic accidents in Brooklyn
yesterday, two so badly that they were taken to hospitals in a serious
condition.  Eight of the injured were hurt in automobile accidents, two
fell from wagons, two were struck by and one fell from the running board
of surface cars.

   Augustus DOYLE, 15 years old, of 5019 Third avenue, was taken to the
Norwegian Hospital shortly after noon suffering from a fractured skull.
His condition is reported critical.  DOYLE was riding in a touring car
with his brother Frances when at Fourth avenue and Seventy-ninth street
the auto collided with a truck driven by George WALSH and owned by the
Crane Company of 249 Willoughby street.  The impact of the collision
threw young DOYLE to the street.  Motorcycle Patrolman DEVINE of Squad
No. 2 summoned an ambulance from Norwegian Hospital.  Francis DOYLE was
given a summons by DEVINE for driving an automobile without a license.

   Valentina KOPP, 6, of 216 Ten Eyck street, was seriously injured when
struck by an automobile owned and driven by Joseph MARSH of Central
avenue, Valley Stream, while crossing  at Bushwick avenue and Ten Eyck
street.  Valentina was taken to St. Catherine’s Hospital suffering from
a fracture of the left leg.

   James O’NEIL, 8, of 529 Dean street, crossing Flatbush avenue and
Dean street was struck by a Seventh avenue surface car.  After being
attended for lacerations of the scalp, he went home.

   Mary HAMMOND, 16, of  293 Seventh street, was riding in the sidecar
of a motorcycle driven by Frank ANTHONY of 667 Fifty-second street, at
Butler and Nevins streets, when the sidecar collided with an automobile
driven by Owen McKENNA, of 1639 Bergen street.  After being attended for
minor injuries, she went home.

   Nellie McCANN, 18, of 58 Huron street, crossing Franklin and Huron
streets, was struck by an automobile owned by William MORAN of 119 West
Ninety-sixth street, Manhattan.  She suffered lacerations of the left
knee and went home.

   Doris ESTERHORN, 3?, of 547 McDonough street, crossing Ralph avenue
and McDonough, was struck by an automobile, owned by George COOK of 93
Seventh street Metuchen, N.J.  She was treated for abrasions of the
scalp and went home.

   Michael ARDSTONE, 37, of 52 Troutman street, crossing Flushing avenue
and Troutman street, was struck by an automobile owned and driven by
Nicholas GARDINO of 906 Flushing avenue.  He suffered possible fracture
of the ???.

   Leon KAUFMAN, 8, of 172 Fifth avenue, was crossing Fifth avenue and
Lincoln place when struck by an automobile owned and driven by Axel
WELKS of 412 Atlantic avenue. He suffered abrasions of the stomach.

  Five year old Dominick RONALDI of 534 Union street, while playing at
Union street and Third avenue, was struck by an automobile driven by
Charles DOHERTY, of 471 Sackett street.  Dominick sustained lacerations
of the scalp and went home after treatment.

 Edward BARTHOLMAY, 4, of 150 Knickerbocker avenue, while playing in
front of his home, was struck by a wagon, the driver of which escaped.
He suffered contusions of the back.

  Benjamin KALLON, 17, of 598 Junius street, riding on a Wilson avenue
surface car at McKibbon street and Bushwick avenue, was thrown off the
running board when hit by an automobile owned by Abe STEADY of 395
Stafford Ave, Queens.  KALLON suffered lacerations of the scalp.  He
went home.

  John  PELACKE, 4, of 1013 Halsey street, crossing Halsey street and
Broadway, was struck by a Halsey street surface car.  He suffered slight
injuries and went home.

  John SMITH, 16 of 27 Hawkins street, Newark, suffered lacerations of
the scalp and was attended by an ambulance surgeon from the Israel Zion
Hospital.  He fell from a wagon at Thirty-ninth street and New Utrecht
avenue.  He went home after treatment.

  William CONNERS, ?3, of 222 Tillary street, while driving a horse and
wagon at Hicks and Warren streets, collided with another wagon, the
driver of which did not stop.  He went home after treatment.

October 9, 1923

MAN IS DROWNED BOARDING BOAT
Watchmen Rescues Second, Who falls from Pier
   Edward HOGAN, 44 years old, of 32 Rush street, drowned last night
when he slipped in trying to board the coal boat, “Frederick Starr”,
moored at the foot of Division avenue.  His body was recovered by the
Marine Division of the Police Department.
   While standing on the pierhead at the foot of Dupont street yesterday
afternoon, Joseph BOUCHETITUS, 29 years old, of 205 Montrose avenue,
fell into the East River.  He was rescued by William SULLIVAN and George
VAN WINKLE, watchman on the pier, and taken to Greenpoint Hospital by
Ambulance Surgeon ATWICK.

     When Gus WRANA, of 146 Java street, lost control of an automobile
he was driving at Franklin and Flushing avenues yesterday, it mounted
the sidewalk and knocked over a telegraph pole, putting passerby in
danger from the falling wires.
     Miss Catherine ADAMS, 18 years old of 419 Classon avenue, and  Miss
Catherine HOGAN, 16, of 277 Emerson Place, who were riding in the car,
were injured.  They were put in a passing automobile and taken to St.
Catherine’s Hospital where Miss Adams was attended for a fracture of the
right forearm and bruises of the face and body, while Miss Hogan was
treated for scalp lacerations and facial and body bruises by Ambulance
Surgeon MARX.  They went home later.

   Miss Ruth SUNSHINE, 19, of 20 Tompkins avenue, suffered scalp
lacerations and cuts on the face when the automobile in which she was
riding and operated by Louis LEVINE, of 1739 Forty-seventh street, was
in a collision at Myrtle and Bedford avenues, with a machine operated by
Max STEIN, of 205 Tallman street, Allentown, Pa.  LEVINE was also cut on
the face and head, but STEIN escaped injury.  LEVINE and Miss SUNSHINE
were attended by Ambulance Surgeon SCHLOSSMAN, of the Beth Moses
Hospital.  The accident according to the police, was due to a
misunderstanding in signals.

   Celia JAFFEE, 28, of 453 Fifteenth street, suffered lacerations of
the arms when she was struck by an automobile owned and driven by Irwin
ALBERT, of 164 Havemeyer street, at State street and Flatbush avenue.

Flees Scene of Accident
   Max BERNSTEIN, 45, of 502 Howard avenue, was crossing Broadway near
Moore street, when he was struck by an automobile, sustaining
lacerations of the hands. The driver of the car stepped on the gas and
escaped.

   Alice PFISTER, 74, of 9626 Seventy-eighth street, suffered contusions
of the head when an automobile driven by James NOE, of 255 Bayside
avenue and in which she was riding, collided with another car owned and
driven by Rose McNEILLY, of 32 Forty-first street, at Sixth avenue and
President street.  Ambulance Surgeon JOHNSON of the Norwegian Hospital
attended the woman.  While Dr. JOHNSON was at the scene, NOE fell to the
street.  It was found that several of his ribs had been fractured, and
he went home after receiving treatment.

   Guiseppi LANARDO, 26, of 471 Hicks street sustained lacerations of
the hands when his automobile collided in Fifteenth avenue, near Seventy
second street, with another owned by Nichola TANTORA of 1565
Seventy-sixth street. Ambulance Surgeon WASSERSTROM, of the Israel Zion
Hospital, attended LANARDO.

Sustains Rib Fractures
   Peter SALVAZZIO, 26, of  4123 Third avenue, was riding in an
automobile which was in a collision with another machine at Fifth and
Prospect avenue, and he was thrown to the pavement.  Several of his ribs
were fractured. He was taken home by friends.

   James SCHAYER, 26, of 210 Sanford street, while crossing at Spencer
street and DeKalb avenue, was struck by an automobile driven by
Christian BUCHLERT, of 1088 Bedford avenue.  SCHAYER was treated for a
dislocated shoulder.

   Mary CONCOLRUS, 52, of 612 Classon avenue, suffered lacerations of
the face when she fell from a Fulton street car at Flatbush avenue.  Dr.
SPERN, of the Cumberland Street Hospital, attended her.

   Charles LIND, 19, of 259 Fiftieth street, fell from a Third avenue
car at Fifty-eighth street and suffered a possible fracture of the right
hand. He went home after receiving medical attention.


October 10, 1923

   Smiling and waving her hand to her mother, who was waiting to welcome
her home, Marion RATTLE, eight-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs. August
RATTLE, who live on the Cornelius B. BLISS estate at Mineola, stepped
from a school bus yesterday and went to her death beneath the wheels of
an automobile driven by Miss Paula MURRAY, 18, of Wheatley Hills.
   The child died almost instantly, said Dr. Walter F. STILLGER, of
Hicksville, who rushed to the scene of the accident.
    The little girl went daily to school by the auto bus which
???????children too young to be trusted on the highway alone.  It was
the daily custom of Mrs. RATTLE to take the child to ????of the rear
gates of the BLISS place at Jericho pike and Glen Cove road and there
wait with her until the auto bus came for her.  In the afternoon when it
was about time for the children to return from school, the mother went
to the gate to greet her daughter and to see that she got safely off the
roadway.
   Yesterday about 4 O’clock Mrs. RATTLE, following her usual custom,
went to meet the returning little scholar.  Marion saw her mother by the
roadside, and smiling and waving stepped down from the bus and was run
down and killed by the car, which Miss MURRAY drove.  Chief PHILLIPS of
the county police and Coroner MOREY of Oyster Bay are making an
investigation.

Trolley and Truck Collide
   A misunderstanding of signals yesterday afternoon caused a collision
between a three ton truck owned by the National Varnish Company of Long
Island City, and a Union street trolley car at Columbia and Union
streets.  About fifteen passengers in the trolley were cut by broken
glass.  The car was thrown from the tracks.
   Lewis STABILE of 104 North Portland avenue, motorman of the trolley,
and Abraham GOLDBERG, of 6 Third avenue, a passenger, were treated by
Dr. DENNISON of the Long Island College Hospital for bruises and
contusions.  Other passengers refused medical aid.

   William O’RORKE, 11, of 313 Eleventh street, suffered lacerations of
the scalp when he was struck by an automobile owned by Leslie BELLEW,
of  5?7 Columbus avenue, Manhatten, while crossing Fifth avenue near
Ninth street.

   Otto HOFFMAN, of 1304 Gates avenue, was driving his automobile in
Eastern parkway near Kingston avenue when the machine struck Wolf COHEN,
69, of 1252 Clay avenue, the Bronx.  Dr. LEVINE, of the Swedish
Hospital, took COHEN to that institution suffering from a fracture of
the thigh.

Little Girl Injured
   Cora FOSTER, 6, of 224 Hudson avenue, suffered contusions of the
knees when she was struck by an automobile owned and driven by William
COYLE, of 250 Twelfth street, at Concord street and Hudson avenue.  Dr.
SULLIVAN of the Cumberland Street Hospital attended the girl.

   Joseph HUGHES, 35, of 1055 East Third street, was sitting in his
automobile on Livingston street, waiting for a traffic patrolman to give
the signal to go ahead, when the machine was truck in the rear by a St.
John’s Place trolley car, in charge of Motorman Floyd TATE.  Hughes was
thrown against the steering wheel and suffered a fracture of the arm.
Dr. STINGER, of the Cumberland Street Hospital, attended him.

   Augustine CUPPO, 77, of 65 Tillary street, while crossing at Flatbush
avenue extension and Tillary street, was struck by an automobile owned
and driven by Lester CAKESAAR, of 275 St. James Place. Augustine
suffered abrasions of the scalp and lacerations of the right leg.

   Yakola Kerto, 4, of 1310 Forty-third street while crossing in front
of her home, was struck by an automobile driven by David BERMAN, of 155
Division avenue.  She sustained lacerations of the lips.

   Frank LEVINE, 53, of 270 Stockton street, was crossing at Division
avenue and Roebling street when he was run down by an automobile
operated by James MILLMAN, of 814 Marcy avenue.  LEVINE was attended for
scalp lacerations and body bruises by Ambulance Surgeon VIVIANI, of St.
Catherine’s Hospital.

October 12, 1923

   Pinned under their automobile yesterday when it turned turtle at
Sixth avenue and Tenth street, after crashing into another machine, Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas O’BRIEN, of 97 Ocean parkway, were by Dr. JOHNSON, of
the M.E. Hospital, for severe injuries.
   James FERGUSON, of 348 Eighty-sixth street, driver of the second car
with the aid of passersby, lifted the automobile from the couple.  Both
machines were wrecked.

   Anna WEISENFIELD, 32, of 225 Penn street, riding in an automobile
owned and driven by her husband Abraham, was injured when the machine
was struck by another owned and driven by Frank WEBER, of 119 Olmstead
place, at Evergreen avenue and Harman street.  Mrs. WEISENFIELD was
thrown against the windshield.

      Hit Crossing Street
   Ivan MORIN, 27, of 637 Eleventh street, Manhattan, was taken to the
Samaritan Hospital by Dr. STATTMAN, when he was injured by an automobile
owned and driven by William RAY, of 766 Ocean avenue.  MORIN was
crossing Fourth avenue near Nineteenth street.

   Joseph EPSTEIN, 6, of 943 Third avenue, was injured when, crossing
Thirty-second street near Third avenue, he was struck by an automobile
owned and driven by J. MYHER, of 235 Fifty-eighth street.  Dr. PAINTON
of the Norwegian Hospital attended the boy.

      Woman Hurt in Crash
   Mary CAREY, 39, of 1335 East Thirty-fifth street, riding in an
automobile driven by her husband James, was injured when struck by a
Fifth avenue car at First street.  Dr. JOHNSON, of the Methodist
Episcopal Hospital, attended the woman.

   James CROMMELL, 44, of 285 Van Brunt street, was taken to the Holy
Family Hospital with injuries suffered when he was struck by an
automobile driven by Tony MONTEMARNO, of  795 Sackett  street. CROMMELL
was crossing Bond street near Third street.

   An automobile operated by Barney MARGOLLES, of  1166 Simpson street,
Bronx, collided with a Reid street trolley car early to-day on Broadway
near Whipple street.  Nathan ROBBINS, of 158 McDougal street, motorman
of the trolley car, was slightly injured.


13 October 1923

     One man was killed, a woman and two other men, injured yesterday
afternoon when an automobile in which they were riding on the Long
Island motor highway, about three miles east of Central Islip, was
wrecked.
     The dead man, John STRANG, of Belfast, Ireland, was a member of a
linen firm with offices in Manhattan.  So far as can be learned, he was
visiting this country on business.
      Those who were injured are:  R.W. CHARLESSON, also of Belfast,
Ireland, said to be in the same line of business as STRANG; John
HODGSON, employed in the offices of Logan and Bryan, Wall Street
brokers, and his mother.

      John SADLER, 14, of 331 Seventeenth street, fell under the wheels
of a motor truck when roller skating at Sixth avenue and Seventeenth
street.  He died within a few minutes.  The police found Philip RELCHIN,
of 235 Suydam street, the driver, was not to blame.

     Walter REID, 8, of 429 Lincoln road, darted from behind a pile of
lumber into the path of an automobile in front of 121 Clarkson avenue
and was killed.  Robert PAYEZ, 314 Bainbridge street, was not arrested.

     An unidentified man was taken to the Samaritan Hospital suffering
from a possible fracture of the skull which he suffered when he was
struck by an automobile at Fourth avenue and Twenty-second street.  The
driver of the machine failed to stop. The police have obtained the
number of the machine and expect to make an arrest to-day.  The injured
man is about 40 years old, five feet ten inches in height and weights
165 pounds.  He wore a dark gray suit and black shoes, but had no hat.

     Abraham KAPLAN, 10, of 305 South Second street, was attended at his
home for contusions of the body and face which he suffered when he was
struck by an automobile driven by Charles TILKE, of 290 South Fifth
street and Driggs avenue

     Theodore FELIX, 57, of 240 South Twenty-seventh street, Flushing,
suffered contusions of the head when an automobile in which he was
riding was struck by a Hoyt street trolley car at Bergen street and Troy
avenue.

     Nathan PERLINUTER, 11, of Graham avenue and Meserole street, was
stealing a ride on the rear of a Graham avenue trolley car, according to
the police, when he jumped off and ran into an automobile owned and
driven by Murray SEIGEL, of 676 Howard avenue. Dr. VIANNI, of St.
Catherine’s Hospital, treated the boy for contusions of the scalp.

Hurt In Collision
    Charles McCANN, 18, of 151 Guernsey street, suffered abrasions when
a wagon on which he was riding collided with an automobile driven by
William MICHAELS, of 147 Guernsey street, at North Eleventh street and
Wythe avenue.  McCANN was attended and taken home.

     John NEALL, 7, of 46 Prince street, was taken to the Cumberland
Street Hospital suffering from a fracture of the left leg and foot,
which he sustained when he was struck by an automobile owned by Wicker
and Wicker of Norwalk, Conn.

     Bernard FITZGERALD, of 119 Fifteenth street, was driving his
automobile in Third avenue near Fifty-fourth street when the machine
struck Harold SENTER, 9, of 5306 Third avenue.  The boy was slightly
injured.

     Morris KURTZ, 10, of 237 Jackson street, was crossing Graham avenue
near Withers street, when he was struck by an automobile.  The boy was
taken to the Greenpoint Hospital suffering from internal injuries.

     Lacerations of the face were suffered by John GRIGERICK, 7, of 786
Manhattan avenue, when he was struck by an automobile driven by Clarence
FANWARTH, of 98 Quincy street, at Dupont street and Manhattan avenue.

     Albert HUZCSKY, 8, of 193 Driggs avenue, suffered contusions when
he was struck by an automobile driven by David CHURCH, of 576 Eleventh
street, at Driggs avenue and Diamond street. Dr. Alvick, of the
Greenpoint Hospital, attended the boy.

     Owen McCOY, 50, and his wife, Mary, 38, both of 427 Third avenue,
suffered lacerations when they were struck by an automobile at
Fifty-third street and Fourth avenue.  The couple were attended and left
for home.

 Escapes After Accident
     The police of the Fifth avenue station are searching for the driver
of a taxicab, which struck Sophie AMBRAZOTOS, 4, of 285 Nineteenth
street, in front of her home.  Dr. NUSSBAUM, of the Holy Family
Hospital, attended the child for contusions of the head.

     Frank SEYERLE, 60, of 271 Bleecker street, was struck by an
automobile owned and driven by Nella COLLI, of 573 Bushwick avenue, at
Knickerbocker and Greene avenues.  SEYERLE sustained a fracture of the
foot.

     Thomas McSHANE, 13, of 543 Evergreen avenue, was riding his bicycle
in Cedar street near Bushwick avenue, when he was struck by an
automobile owned and driven by John CAPUTO, of 264 Sherman street.  The
boy was attended for bruises of the face and body.

     Anthony LUCE, 32, of 4320 Thirteenth avenue, was riding a
motorcycle in Eastern Parkway, near Troy avenue, when it collided with
an automobile driven by Harry A. WOODS, of 101 Troy avenue. LUCE was
hurled from the motorcycle and suffered a possible fracture of the
foot.  He was taken to the King’s County Hospital.

     Gattolo DASTANNO, 45, and Nicholas BELIGLIO, 59, both of 54
Elizabeth street, Manhattan, were walking in Sheepshead Bay road, when
they were struck by an automobile owned and driven by Samuel JOKELKA, of
2526 East Twelfth street. DASTANNO escaped injury. BOLIGLIO suffered
concussion of the brain.  He was taken to Coney Island Hospital.

     Lemule BAXTER, 59, of 430 Sixty first street, was crossing Fourth
avenue, near Sixty-first street, when he was struck by an automobile
owned and driven by Conrad HAUGE of 1279 Schenectady avenue.  BAXTER was
attended for lacerations of the scalp.

     Josephine MONACO, 22, of 522 Coney Island avenue, was struck by an
automobile owned by Edward SMITH, of 705 St. Marks avenue, at Ocean
Parkway and Church avenues. The girl was attended for contusions.

     Cut By Flying Glass
     Anna KELP, 8, of 555 Warren street, was riding in an automobile
with her brother John, when the machine was struck by a Third avenue
trolley car at Warren street.  The girl was cut about the face when the
windshield of the automobile was smashed.  Dr. NUSSBAUM of the Holy 
Family Hospital attended her.

     Adolph LUCKERMAN, 63, of 336 East Twenty-sixth street, was crossing
at Clarendon road and Bedford avenue when he was struck by an automobile
owned and driven by Frank FRASER.  LUCKERMAN was taken to Kings County
Hospital suffering from a fracture of the left arm.

     Tony DONDROSIA, 10, of 184 Concord street was crossing at Court and
Livingston streets when he was struck by an automobile owned by Frank
THIELER, of 99 Flatbush avenue. The boy suffered contusions of the left eye.

     John REHAN, 9, of 4 Bainbridge street, was crossing at Bainbridge
street and Summer avenue when he was struck by an automobile owned by
John FINKELSTEIN of 531 Madison street.  REHAN sustained lacerations of the nose.

     Rhoda FLEMING, 80, of 1560 East Thirteenth street, Flatbush, is in
the Flushing Hospital in critical condition as the result of injuries
received when an automobile in which she was riding skidded and
overturned at Elmwood Hall avenue.

14  October 1923

     Twelve children and four adults were injured in vehicular mishaps
yesterday.  One of the children injured was taken to the Kings County
Hospital in a critical condition and in four other cases it was also
found necessary to take the injured to a hospital.
     Alfred LEWIS, while playing in front of his home at 385 Essex
street, was struck by an auto owned and driven by Ernest PETICE, of 41?
Essex street, suffering a fractured skull.  He was rushed to Kings
County Hospital in a serious condition.

     Carol AUSTIN, 34, of 7 Cleveland street, while crossing Third
avenue at Baltic street, was struck by an automobile driven by Frank
CORCORAN, of 198 Nevins street. AUSTIN was taken to Holy Family Hospital
suffering from a fracture of the right leg.

     While alighting from a Bergen street trolley car at Livingston
street and Boerum place, Morris WARSHASKY, 55, of 1406 St. Marks avenue,
was struck by a wagon which brushed against the car. WARSHASKY was taken
to Holy Family Hospital with contusions of the right shoulder and
abdomen.

     Mary PARRETTE, 70, of 5019 New Utrecht avenue while crossing New
Utrecht avenue and Fiftieth street, was struck by an automobile owned
and driven by Thomas ZINZE, of 1515 Fifty-fifth street, suffering
lacerations of the left eye. She went home after treatment.

     Eleven year old Jack ABOFF, of 197 Boerum street, was struck by an
automobile as he was crossing Bushwick avenue at Boerum street.  The car
was driven by Jack FOREMAN of 427 Sutter avenue. The boy was taken to
St. Catherine’s Hospital suffering from a fracture of the left arm and
lacerations of the scalp.

     Mary SCANLON, 6, of 100 Boerum place, while playing in front of her
home, was struck by a wagon driven by Christ GUNERSON, of 380 Clinton
street.  She was taken to the Holy Family Hospital suffering from a
fracture of the right leg.

     Chester JAMKOWITZ, 8, of 182 Twenty-sixth street, crossing Fifth
avenue and Sixteenth street, was struck by an automobile owned and
driven by Frank FULTEREN, of 222 Seventeenth street.  JAMKOWITZ was
treated for contusions of the back and went home.

     Edward DELANO, 9, of 543 McDonough street, while crossing in front
of his home, was struck by an auto driven by Harrison STEWART, of 182
Decatur street.  The boy suffered a fracture of the right arm, but went
home after treatment.

     Joseph MARESSE, 15, of 635 Fifth avenue, while he was crossing
Fifth avenue at Eighteenth street, was struck by an automobile driven by
Robert GAIER, of 2010 Mermaid avenue.  MARESSE went home after treatment
for lacerations of the face.

     Four year old Arthur MAHGARO, of 255 Columbia street, was struck by
an auto owned and driven by Rudolph LANG, of 2161 Morris avenue, the
Bronx.  He suffered contusions of both legs and went home after
treatment.

     Albert BECHENE, 6, of 20 Oakland street, while playing in front of
his home, was struck by an automobile owned and driven by Harry MEYER,
of 545 Powell street.  The child suffered abrasions of the face and both
arms, but went home after treatment.

     William MAUER, 6, of 757 Manhattan avenue, suffered lacerations of
the scalp when struck by an automobile owned by William STERRETT, of 13?
Vernon avenue, Long Island City.  He was able to go home after
treatment.

     Mary KOSZEKK, 25, of 1595 Ninety-fifth avenue, Woodhaven, a
passenger in an automobile driven by Michael PETOKOSKI, of the same
address, at Bridge street and Flatbush avenue extension, which collided
with an another machine the driver of which has not been identified,
suffered a fracture of the left index finger.

     Florence KAHCZNSKI, 7, of 204 Greenpoint avenue, crossing in front
of 167 Greenpoint avenue, was struck by an automobile driven by Patrick
MURPHY of 67 Java street.  She suffered abrasions of the scalp and went home.

     Louis FORIAROLO, 4, of 337 Nevins street, while crossing in front
of his home, was struck by an automobile owned and driven by August
RINO, of  440 Fifty-eighth street. The boy suffered lacerations of the
lip and nose.

     Carl LUNDSTRUM, 10, of 272 Forty-fifth street, suffered lacerations
of the left leg yesterday afternoon when an automobile owned and driven
by Alfred H. McKEGG, of 760 Seventy-ninth street, struck him as he was
roller-skating in front of his home.  He was treated by Dr. PAINTON of
Norwegian Hospital.

October 16, 1923

     Peter A. JONES, 35 years old, of 739 Fifty-eighth street, father of
eleven children, is dead, and (Buddy) SAUNDERS, 19, of 5512 Fifth
avenue, is in the Methodist Episcopal Hospital with a skull fracture and
both legs broken of an automobile accident early yesterday in Third
avenue, near Twenty-fifth street.
     JONES and SAUNDERS were riding in a care owned and driven,
according to the police, by Leon G. MARTIN, 42, of 213 East Eighty-first
street, Manhattan.  The car was going south in Third avenue, near
Twenty-fifth street, when another machine appeared going east in
Twenty-fifth street.
     In order to avoid this car, MARTIN told the police, he made a sharp
turn, and his car skidded, smashing into the curb. JONES and SAUNDERS
were thrown ten feet out of the car, and JONES was pronounced dead on
arrival by an ambulance surgeon from the Norwegian Hospital.  SAUNDERS,
who for the last two years played fullback on the St. Johns preparatory
school eleven and was chosen as interscholastic fullback, is in critical
condition.
     The police of the Fourth avenue station began an investigation.
MARTIN was held by Magistrate RAYFIEL, in the Fifth avenue court in
$3,500 bail, for hearing on Oct. 19 on a technical charge of
manslaughter.

One Hurt in Collision
     Francis MURPHY, 33, of 2292 West Twenty-second street, Coney
Island, suffered contusions of the chest when an automobile in which he
was riding on the upper roadway on the Manhattan Bridge was struck by
another machine.  He was treated by Dr. RICHMAN, of Gouverneur Hospital
and left for home.

     Motorcycle Policeman Daniel EDINTON, attached to Motorcycle Squad
2, suffered a fracture of the right foot when his motorcycle skidded at
Coney Island avenue and Avenue D, as he tried to avoid a collision with
a machine owned and driven by Harry STERNBERG, of 1187 East Tenth
street. EDINTON, who lives at 2901 Avenue D, was taken to the Coney
Island Hospital.

     Patrolman George A. BASIL, 33, attached to the Jamaica station, was
directing traffic at Rocky Hill road and Jerico turnpike, when he was
struck by an automobile owned by Stephen KOWALSKY, of Creedmor.  BASIL
suffered a possible fracture of the skull and was taken to St. Mary’s
Hospital.  He lives at 298 St. Nicholas avenue.

	Harry J. KESTON, 25, of 422 Jefferson street and Matthew LOSSON,
49, of 24 St. Nicholas avenue, were standing at Troutman street and St.
Nicholas avenue when they were struck by an automobile owned and driven
by J. BERRWILL, of 317 Java street.  KESTON and LOSSON suffered
contusions and lacerations and left for home after treatment.

     Henry MURPHY of 511 Eighty-third street, was driving his automobile
in Fifth avenue near Eighty-second street when the machine struck George
SCHWARTZ, 8, of 3222 Fifth avenue.  The boy was attended for a fractured
left leg at his home.

          Sustains Ankle Fracture
     Meyer GREEN, 28, of 1724 Sterling place, was crossing at Rockaway
and Lott avenues, when he was struck by an automobile driven by J.
McCARY, address unknown. GREEN sustained a fracture of the ankle and was
taken to the Brownsville and East New York Hospital.

     Morris SAVELOWITZ, 15, of 38 Boerum street, was riding his bicycle
in Seigel street near Graham avenue, when he was struck by an automobile
owned and driven by Herman SPATZ, of 917 Bla??  avenue. The boy suffered
a possible fracture of the collarbone.

     Mary BACKRECK, 40, of the Hotel Pennsylvania, suffered a fracture
of the ankle when she was struck by an automobile owned and driven by a
man who gave the name of BETZ and his address as 9518 Seventy-seventh
street, at Bushwick avenue and Conway street.  The woman was attended
and left for home in a taxicab.

     Lacerations were suffered by Elizabeth ANDERSON, 24, of 1150 East
Thirty-fourth street, when she was struck by an automobile driven by
Henry MEISTAL of 6215 Bay Parkway at Atlantic avenue and Nevins street.
The woman was attended and left for home.

     Leo GORDON, 30, of 3631 Third avenue, was taken to the Bushwick
Hospital suffering from a fracture of the skull, which he suffered when
he was struck by an automobile owned and driven by Stephen ROGERS, of 76
McDonough street, at Reid avenue and Halsey street.

     Motorcycle Policeman William GROSS, 27, of the Parkville station,
was riding his machine in Lawrence avenue, when he was struck by an
automobile, owned and driven by Phillip BOHNER, of 1621 Eighty-fifth
street.  CROSS suffered abrasions of the face, but refused medical aid
and remained on duty. [Name appears as GROSS and CROSS in article]

          Police Investigate Death
     New Hyde Park, Oct. 15. Local police are investigating the death
of Tony CATALDO, 58 years old, who died in the Nassau Hospital yesterday

of injuries received on Jericho turnpike, near here.  CATALDO, a
cripple, was found lying in the road by John OLSEN, who took him to the
hospital.The man was unconscious, but finally was revived.  He gave his name
and said his home was 11735 133rd street, South Ozone Park, Queens.  He
did not tell how he received his injuries.  It is believed he was struck
by an automobile while walking along the turnpike.  He had $100 in his
pockets.  He appeared to be a laborer.  Police are waiting for relatives
to identify the body, which is still at the hospital.

          Amputate Woman’s Arm
     Merrick, Oct. 15. Mrs. H.H. SMITH, 54 years old, of 334 President
street, Brooklyn, suffered injuries necessitating the amputation of her
right arm yesterday, when the automobile in which she was being driven
by her husband overturned after striking a rut on the Merrick road at
Merrick avenue.  The man was not hurt.
     Mrs. SMITH was resting her arm on the door when the car
overturned.  A private ambulance from Freeport took her to the Mineola
Hospital where the arm was amputated immediately.

     Max FIRE, 35, of 456 Bedford avenue, was walking along Bedford
avenue at South Tenth street, when an automobile operated by Harry
MARKOWITZ, of 1126 Kings highway, jumped on to the curb.  FIRE was
knocked down, sustaining a fracture of the right leg and cuts on the
face and head.  He was taken to the Beth Moses Hospital by Ambulance
Surgeon PALEU.

     Doris SUPER, 2, of 12809 Liberty Avenue, Richmond Hill, was
seriously injured yesterday when an automobile driven by her father
Benjamin, collided with another car driven by William ROCE,  19753 116th

street Richmond Hill, at Lefferts avenue and 109th street.  The child
was treated by an ambulance surgeon from Mary Immaculate Hospital.

20 October 1923

Police seek autoist who escapes after bowling over Pedestrian
Emma MARTIN, 23 years old. of 325 37th St, is in the Norwegian 
Hospital today suffering from a possible fracture of the skull.   
She was riding last night in an automobile, owned and driven by 
James MARTIN, of 325 37th St, when, to avboid a collision, it 
ran into  an "L" pillar ar 4th Ave and ;38th Street.

Donald HOPKINS, 4, of 87 Cumberland St, while crossing at 
Cumberland St and Park Av, was struck by an automobile driven by 
John CRISBIE, of 231 W 148th St Manhattan.The boy was taken to the 
Cumberland Street Hospital suffering from internal injuries.

While crossing in front of 418 Fulton St. Margaret COGNEY, 63, of 
211 St James Pl. was struck by an automobile driven by William POWER, 
of 231 Pacific St.  The woman was attended for contusions of the back.

Anna GELLER, 3, of  88 Clinton and Park Avs, was struck by an automobile, 
owned by Jerry SALZO of 1601 Neptune Av.  The girl sustained 
lacerations of the head.

Christian BRAUN, 52, of 305 Miller Av, was taken to St. John's Hospital 
in critical condition suffereing from a fracture of the skull which he 
suffered when he was struck by an automobile owned and driven by 
George F. SCHWARTZ, of 385 St. Johns Pl. at Atlantic and Troy Avs.

Anthony BARRASI, 21, of 1735 Coney Island Av, was slightly injured when an 
automobile which he was driving was in collision with another machine 
owned by Thomas MANFREDE, of 60 Sumpter St at Kings Highway and Avenue J.  
BARRASI refused medical aid.

Auto Flees Accident Scene
Leonard GOETZER, 72, of 28 Schaeffer St., was crossing Decatur St. 
near Hopkinson Av. when he was struck by an automobile.  
Dr. HERBERT, of the Bushwick Hospital attended him for lacerations 
of the face.  The police of the Ralph Av. station are conducting a 
search for the driver of the machine.

Oscar GOULD, 26, of 1004 Eastern Pkwy, was standing in front of 
281 Albany Av. when an automobile owned and driven by Emanuel JUCEAN, 
of 202 E. 3 St. struck a lamp post.  The falling glass hit GOULD on 
the head and knocked him to the ground.  JUCEAN'S machine was then 
struck by another machine owned by Henry WEISSMAN, of 710 Cleveland St.  
GOULD was taken to St. Johns Hospital suffering from a fracture of the 
ankle and laceration of the head.  The police of the Atlantic Av. 
station reported that the accident was caused by the wet pavement.

John WHALEN, 6, of 277 7th St. was taken to the Methodist Episcopal Hospital 
suffering from a fracture of the foot and lacerations which he sustained 
when he was struck by an automobile, owned and driven by Edward ROZETT, 
of 3423 36th St. Elmhurst, at 69th St. near 5th Av.

Benjamin BLOOM, of 1961 65th St., was driving his automobile in 
Ocean Pkway near Newkirk Av., when the machine struck 
Eugene J. FLYNN, 44, of 248 Newkirk Av.  Dr. GRABER, of the 
Kings County Hospital, took FLYNN to that institution 
suffering from lacerations and contusions.

Injured by Mail Truck
Nathan MEINGARTEN, 16, of 37 Osborn St., was riding on the running 
board of a Bergen St. trolley car, when his body brushed against a 
mail truck which was standing at the curb of Adams and Johnson Sts.  
Dr. STINGLER, of Cumberland Street Hospital, attended WEINGARTEN for 
contusions of the body and took him to the hospital.

Louis SHAPIRO, 58, and his brother Michael, 23, both of 725 Sutter Av., 
suffered lacerations when an automobile in which they were riding, was 
in a collision with another machine driven by Michael FRANTE, of 
1088 Nostrand Av., at Albany and St. Mark's Avs.  Dr. STRESMAN, of 
St. John's Hospital, attended the brothers.

Herman RESNICk, 5, of 328 Bushwick Av., while crossing at Bushwick Av. 
and Seigel St., was struck by an automobile owned by Jacob GLUCKMAN, of 
668 Flushing Av.  The boy suffered contusions of the left leg.

Richard STRAUSS, 2, escaped miraculously when he wandered half a 
block from his home, at 14 Fisk Av., Maspeth Queens, and in front 
of a commercial automobile owned by the Trio Furniture Company, of
Laurel Hill, and operated by Louis DAVIDSON, of Laurel Hill.  
The mudguards struck the baby and when the car was stopped he was 
found between the front and rear wheels.  Dr HAZER, of St. John's Hospital, 
pronounced him uninjured, except for a slight abrasion of the knee.

21 October 1923

A boy was killed and ten persons were injured in 
automobile accidents yesterday.  Six of the injured were taken to hospitals 
where they remained up to a late hour last night.

Michael Patafora 9, of 2362 Pacific street, was the boy for which a death 
tally was marked as an addition to the list of traffic fatalities.

He was instantly killed when an automobile owned by the Thomas Roulaton Stores, 
ran him down in front of Our Lady of Loretta's R.C. Church, Pacific and Sackman streets.

James Curry of 2670 Madison street, who was driving the automobile, 
took the boy to St. John's Hospital where he was pronounced dead by Dr. Kiel.  
Curry was arrested on a technical charge of homicide.

Samuel Oppeletta, 37, of 2358 West Twelfth street, while working in 
front of 2722 West Seventeenth street, was struck by an automobile owned 
by John Walton of 230 North street.  Oppoletta was taken to the Coney 
Island Hospital suffering from internal injuries.

Joseph Miller, 7, of 571 Warren street, while crossing Third avenue at 
Atlantic avenue, was struck by an automobile owned by Frederich Loeser 
& Company, of 484 Fulton street.  The driver Harry Quinn, of 297 Kosciusko street, 
took the boy to the Holy Family Hospital where he stayed suffering from 
internal injuries.

Policeman hurt in Pursuit
Police Sergt. Gilbert Meehan, attached to Motor Squad 2, 46 years old, of 
773 Lexington avenue, while pursuing an unidentified automobile at 
Third avenue and thirty-third street, crashed into another machine driven 
by Joseph Kowal, of 421 Sixieth street. Meehan was taken to the M.E. 
Hospital suffering from internal injuries.

James Walsh, 13 of 33 Cumberland street, while waiting for a peddler's 
wagon at 28 Clinton avenue was crushed between two automobiles owned by 
Joseph Martin of 256 Gold street.  The boy was later taken to the Cumberland 
Street Hospital suffering from internal injuries.

Stella Rogers, 8, of 348 Eastern Parkway, while crossing Union street and 
Franklin avenue was struck by an automobile owned by Marie Halleran, of 1597 
Bedford avenue.  Stella was taken to the Swedish Hospital suffering from a 
possible fracture of the left knee.

Has Skull Fractured
Harry Redman, 32, of 496 Lincoln avenue driving a wagon owned by the 
Ward Baking Company, at Evergren and Greene avenues, was in collision with 
the automobile driven by Charles Meyer, of 177 Covert street.  Redman was 
taken to the Wyckoff Heights Hospital suffering from a possible 
fracture of the skull.

William Moses, 13 of 2106 Ocean parkway, while crossing at Atlantic and 
Schenectady avenues, was struck by an automobile owned by Helen Lindsley, of 
8510 102d street, Richmond Hill.  Moses received laceration of scalp and went home.

Martin Cafamassano, 62, of 423 Bay Ridge avenue, was struck by an automobile, 
owned and driven by Danel Lugo, of 6501 Sixth avenue, at Fifth avenue and 
Sixty-eighth street.  After treatment Cafamassano went home.

Francis Pessalablo, of 227 Twenty-sixth street, was struck by an automobile driven 
by John Carlson, of ?110 Sixth avenue, while he was crossing Fourth avenue and 
Twenty-eight street.  After being attended for contusions of the head, Pessalablo 
went home.

Stanley Sasobent, 7, of 1536 Sixty-third street, crossing the street in front 
of his home, was struck by an automobile owned by Israel Tabritant of 
2?09 Thirteenth avenue.  The boy went home after he had been treated for abrasions 
of the body.

22 October 1923

Harold Ricklin, 18 years old, of 42 Union place, Hempstead was 
killed yesterday, and his companion, Robert Smith, 21 of Centre avenue, 
Bellmore, was bruised and cut when an automobile in which they were 
riding on Nassau road, near Roosevelt, overturned.  Ricklin was pinned 
under the car and was dead when extricated.

Ricklin, according to Smith, was trying to pass another automobile 
and started across the trolley tracks Smith told Coroner Walter R. Jones 
that he estimated they were traveling about forty miles an hour.  The car 
shot across the road and overturned.  Smith was thrown clear of the 
wreckage, but Ricklin was caught beneath it.

Six persons, four of them members of one family, narrowly escaped 
serious injury when a commercial automobile, owned by the Brooklyn 
Edison Company, was in collision with a sedan, driven by Alfred Russell, 
of Lake Mahopac, at Saratoga avenue and Decatur street.  The commercial 
car was driven by Nathan Dworick, 23 years old, of 335 Hopkinson avenue.  
Both machines were badly damaged.  Dworkick was taken to Bushwick Hospital 
and after being treated by Dr. Luxeld, for possible internal injuries, 
left for home.   The following occupants of the sedan were treated at 
the scene for bruises and contusions by Dr. Herbert, of Bushwick Hospital: 
William Weber, 50: Louis M. Weber, 40: Florence Weber 20, and 
William S. Weber, Jr.22 all of 490A Jefferson avenue.

Stephen Savarino, 13, of 117 Hudson avenue, was walking in York street 
when he was struck by an automobile driven by William O'Brien of 
30 Poplar street.  Savarino suffered contusions of the hips.

Edward Zinn, of 1286 Halsey street, was driving his automobile in 
McDonough street, near Saratoga avenue, when the machine struck Milton Bellin, 
5, of 924 Madison street.  The boy was attended at the Bushwick Hospital 
for contusions and taken home.

Contusions of the legs were sustained by Henry Gray, 25, of 426 Eleventh street, 
when he was stuck by an automobile owned and driven by Henry Hewes, of 
346 Tenth street, at Sixth avenue and Eleventh street.  Dr. Johnson, of 
the Methodist Episcopal Hospital, attended Hewes.

Physician Arrested.
Herman Rosenstein, of 426 Grand street, was injured, and Dr. Henry Wood, 
of 378 Nostrand avenue, was arrested on a charge of driving an automobile 
while intoxicated as a result of a peculiar accident involving the 
collision of four automobiles.

Rosenstein was cranking the automobile of Moses Grosman in front of the 
latter's home at 654 Bedford avenue, when Dr. Wood drove his automobile 
south on Bedford avenue, striking the automobile of Harry J. Pane of 
658 Bedford avenue, which was pushed forcefully against that of
Morris Gottlieb, of 372 Grand street.  The latter car struck Grosman's 
automobile which knocked Rosenstein down.

Patrolman Castalanno, of the Clymer street station, arrested Dr. Wood and 
also made a charge of  assault against Grosman, as it was his car that 
struck Rosenstein.  Rosenstein received first aid treatment for lacerations 
on the body and went home.

Hugh Griffith, 40, of 287 Reid avenue, was struck by an automobile owned 
and driven by Oscar Madison of College Point, at Third avenue and 
Forty-third street.  Griffith sustained injuries of the leg.

Joseph Scoifo, 25, of 821 Forth-fifth street, was crossing New Utrecht 
avenue near Sixty-third street, when he was struck by an automobile and 
suffered lacerations of the legs.  He was attended and left for home.  
The driver of the automobile disappeared without identifying himself, 
and the police of the Bath Beach station are conducting a search for him.

William Olsen, 39, of 910 Caton avenue, was crossing at Fifth avenue 
Thirty-ninth street when he was struck by an automobile owned by 
Hyman Freeman, of 168 East 101st street, Manhattan, Olsen was attended 
and left for home.

Dorothy McCamblely, 12, of 9 East Tenth street, suffered bruises of the 
head when she was struck by an automobile driven by Paul Kaufman, of 
1165 East Twelfth street, at East Eighteenth street and Church avenue.  
The girl was attended and left for home.

Hurt When Car Overturns.
Samuel Mittelman, 21 of 348 New Lots avenue, suffered contusions of the 
body when his automobile over turned at Atlantic and New Jersey avenues.  
Mittleman was attended and left for home.

John MacConnach, 6, was playing in front of his home at 
590 Ninety-second street, when he was struck by an automobile owned and 
driven by John J.  Fogarty, of 523 Seventy-seventh street.

23 October 1923

Gladys Gibson, 15 years old, a schoolgirl, of 570 Leonard street, was run 
down and killed yesterday while skating, by an automobile truck driven by 
Max Hockberg, of 632 Knickerbocker avenue, at Nassau avenue and Eckford street.

Hockberg placed the girl in the truck and took her to the Greenpoint Hospital, 
but she was dead before the truck arrived there.  Several hours passed before 
the girl was identified.  Hockberg was arrested and will appear today in the 
Bridge Plaza court.

Francis Kelly, 10, of 845 Greene avenue, was skating in Greene avenue 
near Lewis avenue, when he was stuck by an automobile driven by 
George Hoffman, of 315 Fosdick avenue.  The boy refused medical aid 
and left for home.

Simon Carissi, 5, of 77 Meserole street, suffered contusions of the arms 
when he was stuck by an automobile owned by Israel Reich, of 1676 
Forth-ninth street, at Montrose avenue and Leonard street.  Dr. Viviani, 
of St. Catharine's Hospital attended the boy

Ethel Ehler, 20, of 1467 Bedford avenue, suffered lacerations when 
she was riding in an automobile owned and driven by William Buchanan, 
of 9? Dowaling street, which collided with an electric pole at Carlton 
and Atlantic avenues. Dr. Steinger, of the Cumberland Street Hospital, 
attended the girl and she left for home.

Navy Yard Worker Hurt.
Felton Durham, 19, employed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was crossing 
Hudson avenue, near Sands street, when he was stuck by an automobile 
driven by Kastontiu Querluskis, of 173 Ten Eyck street.  Durham 
suffered contusions and was taken to the Navy Yard Barracks.

Theresa Fitzpatrick, 30, of 868 Lexington Avenue, was taken to the 
Kings County Hospital suffering from a fractured left leg, which she 
suffered when she was stuck by an automobile driven by Frank Sudy, of 
798 Washington avenue, at Classon Near putnam avenues.

Theodore Flashingberg, 14, of West Twelfth street and Surf avenue, 
was riding a bicycle in Surf avenue when he was stuck by an automobile.  
The boy suffered a fracture of the right leg and was taken home.

Contusions were suffered by Edward Phillips, 9, of 69 Beadel street.  
When he was stuck by an automobile owned and driven by Benjamin Santag, 
of 62 South Tenth street, at Morgan avenue and Beadel street.  Dr. Alvick, 
of the Greenpoint Hospital, attended the boy.

Robert Millia, 25,, of 49 Duffield street, suffered contusions of the 
legs when an automobile in which he was riding collided with another 
owned and driven by Fred Breesl, of 745 Flushing avenue, at North Oxford 
street near Park avenue.

On her way home from school, Ruth Nugent, 7, of 188 Havemeyer street, 
Elmhurst, was struck by an automobile at Polk and Forty-eighth streets Elmhurst.  
She was taken to the Flushing Hospital where she was treated by Dr. Schoomacker.  
The automobile, operated by Albert Sillo of 536 West Thirty-fifth street, 
Manhattan, is owned by the Metropolitan Distributing Corporation, 
520 West Twentieth street, Manhattan, when Sillo
took the girl to the hospital, where it was found she had sustained 
lacerations of the head and abrasions of the legs.

Lad Taken to Hospital
Florino Severino, 3, of 51 Christopher avenue, is in St. Mary's Hospital 
suffering from internal injuries.  He was crossing in front of 331 Stone 
avenue when an automobile owned and driven by Simon Reich of 256 Dumont
ran upon the sidewalk and hit him.

While crossing at Fourth avenue and Sixteenth street, Clifford Hurring, 
11, of 577 Fifth avenue, was struck by an automobile owned and driven by 
Louis Apfel, of 246 Ninety-second street.The boy suffered contusions of the hip.

Frank Brezonel, 132, of 305 Troutman street was riding in an automobile, 
owned by Daniel Winter, of 359 Madison street, when at Albany avenue and 
Crown street it collided with another machine owned by George Vaughn, of 
441 Washington avenue.  The boy went home after being attended.

Daniel Flannigan, 29, of 9603 Farragut road, is in the Cumberland Street 
Hospital suffering from injuries received when he was struck by an automobile 
operated by Joseph Bursis, of 588 Atlantic avenue, at Flushing and 
Vanderbilt avenues.  Flannigan was riding in a automobile operated by 
James Nolan, of 59 Middleton street, when he jumped in front of the one 
driven by Bursis.  Ambulance Surgeon Herz took Flannigan to the hospital.

24 October 1923

Solomon S. Zabusky,21, of 280 Hewes street, was killed instantly last 
night when crossing Flushing, near Marcy avenue.  He was stuck by an 
automobile owned and driven by Harry Malkin, of 912 Avenue W.

Joseph Howard, 31, of 1521 Atlantic avenue, was injured by an automobile 
driven by Caesar Ovini, of 376 Lewis avenue at Fulton street and Troy avenue

Joseph Pabat, 21, of 373 Palmetto street, crossing Fulton street near 
Hudson avenue, was struck and injured by an automobile driven by 
Edward Murray, of 2419 Cropsey avenue.

Bertha Ralmack, 28, of 188 So. Second st, was attended at her home for 
injuries suffered when struck by an automobile owned by May Rothstein, 
of 303 Glenmore avenue.  The victim was crossing South Third near Roebling street.

Three Hurt in Crash
Three persons were injured when an automobile driven by Abraham Secunda, 
256½ Penn street, turned turtle at Church and Ocean avenues, after 
colliding with another machine owned by John Roth, 1817 Cropsey avenue, 
and driven by John Napisco, ?932 West Twenty-third street.  
The injured are Secunda, Florence Hart, 18, of 217 Manhattan avenue 
and John Geardono, 17, of 236 Manhattan avenue.

George Mandell, 26, of 598 Schenck avenue, and Benjamin Sencon, 17,
of 613 Rockaway avenue, were injured when their automobile, driven by 
Mandell, collided with another machine owned by the American 
Express Company, and driven by Janice Norton, of 501 Fifth avenue, 
at Sutter and Georgia avenues.  Mandell lost control of his machine 
and it jumped the curb and ran into window of candy stores at 591 Sutter avenue.

Thrown from Auto
Rocco Brugno, 45, of 688 Allan street, Manhattan, was thrown from an 
automobile owned and driven by Augustino Partora, of 1508 Broadway, 
Manhattan, when it collided with another machine owned by the 
Mohegaw Furniture Company of 171 Clymer street, and driven by Thornton Newton, 
of 248 Marcy avenue, Brugno suffered bruises of the body.

Frank Troieno, 15, of 10 Stryker street, was taken to the Coney Island 
Hospital with injuries suffered when struck by an automobile owned by 
Joseph Whiters, of 2236 Gravesend Avenue, at West Ninth street and Avenue U.

Frank Trayni, 78, of 169 Fourth avenue, crossing Fourth avenue, near Sackett street, 
was injured by an automobile driven by Morris Rosenbert, of 552 Gates avenue.

Women Seriously Hurt
Herman A. Bent, of 188 Fulton street, driving on Fulton, near Clark street, 
when the machine struck May Hankins, 37, of 77 Tilliary street.  The women 
was taken to St. Peter's Hospital in critical condition suffering possible 
fracture of the skull.

Richard Boehm, 11, of 318 Stagg street, was injured by an automobile at 
Waterbury and Stagg streets.  The boy was attended at his home by Dr. Hangartner, 
of 168 Stagg street.  The driver of the machine disappeared without identifying 
himself.

Arthur Frankel, 22 of Maple avenue, Sea Gate, was injured by a Court street car 
at Fulton street.  Dr. Baker of the Long Island College Hospital attended.

24 October 1923

John Russo, 45 years old, of 152 Central avenue, was killed last night 
by a fall from an automobile truck owned by Jack Acasa, of 283 Hart Street.

According to the police, Russo was riding on the seat of the truck with 
Acasa when the automobile came to a sudden stop at Central avenue and 
Hart street, precipitating Russo to the pavement, head first.  His 
skull was fractured.  He was dead before the arrival of an ambulance surgeon.

Joseph Feidman, of 2913 West Twenty-third street, was driving his automobile  
on Mermaid avenue when the machine struck Justin Wagner, ?,of 2719 Mermaid ave.
A physician attended the boy for lacerations of the cheek and contusions 
of the forehead.

Giuseppi Canfarano, 70, of 80 Johnson avenue, sustained fractures of the 
jaw and right arm when run down by the automobile owned by Edward Carlson, 
of 723 Forty-second street, at Bedford and Flushing avenues.  Dr. Stenger,
of the Cumberland street Hospital, took Canfarano to that institution.

Autos Skid and Collide
Joseph Nello, 48, of 1865 Sixtieth street, and Harry Simons, 55, of 
1593 Ocean avenue, suffered lacerations and contusions when an 
automobile in which they were riding was in collision with another 
driven by Charles Mitchell of 1908 Avenue F at Ocean and Ditmas avenues.  
Dr. Breck, of the Kings County Hospital attended Nello and Simons and 
they left for home.  The police of the Snyder avenue station reported 
that the accident was caused by the wet pavement.

Contusions were suffered by John Filitz, 12, of 172 Fourteenth street, 
when he was struck by an automobile owned and driven by Jacob Sobel, 
of 294 New Lots avenue at Third avenue near Thirteenth street.  
The boy went home after being treated.

Henry Granlich, 52, of 1829 Decatur street, was riding in an automobile 
driven by Charles Granlich, of 1036 Cypress avenue, which was in collision 
with another driven by Leon Epstein, of 986 Leggett avenue at Montrose and 
Graham avenues.  Dr. Marx, of St. Catherine's Hospital attended Henry Granlich 
for contusions and he left for home.

Irving Pearlman, 18, of 39 Brooklyn avenue, suffered contusions of the 
legs when he was struck by an automobile owned and driven by Max Kamenosky 
of 418 Georgia avenue at Brooklyn and Atlantic avenues.  Dr. McNeilly, 
of St. John's Hospital attended Pearlman.

D.I.R.R. Car Hits Auto
Isabel Pope, 15 years old, is in the Nassau County Hospital suffering 
from shock as a result of being thrown from an automobile driven by her 
brother, Duffield, 17 years old when the machine was struck by a storage 
battery electric car of the Long Island Railroad at the Hempstead crossing. 
near Steward avenue, Garden City.  Her brother was not injured.

The car struck the automobile pushing it into a ditch at the side of the tracks 
where it overturned, and the girl was thrown out.Her brother remained in his seat.  
The motorman of the car, E. Reardon, said he saw the automobile in time to 
apply the brakes so that there was little force in the collision.

Young Pope was arrested on a charge of driving an automobile without a license.  
He and his sister are the children of the Rev. Richard D. Pope, pastor of the 
Episcopal Church of the Advent in Westbury.

Robert Wilson, 25 of 714 Greenwood avenue, suffered lacerations of the scalp 
when he was stuck down by an automobile driven by Louis Tieman of 
1608 Mermaid avenue, as he was crossing at Ocean Parkway and Sherman street.

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