Evening journal., 1905-09-06
MET DEATH
IN AUTO CRASH
Lieutenant Wolf and Miss
Hammie Were Killed at
Atco, N. J.
CHAUFFEUR WAS UHINJURtD

Camden, n. j., Sept ga tragedy
similar TO the death OF Lieutenant
Harris Lindsey and his hancee at
Bennington. VT. occurred here yester-
day. when Lieutenant Neil Wolf, secre-
tary Of a Philadelphia automobile COM
pany and Miss Mamie Hamill, daugh
ter OF Hugh Hamin a well-known
manufacturer of Germantown, phila-
delphia. TO whom Wolf was engaged,
were killed IN an automobile accident
al Atco, n. j., few miles below
Camden. this afternoon. Plunglng in
to the railing of Hayes Mil Bridge
mile below Atco on the famous White
Horse Pike, the machine was wrecked
and two OF the occupants We're Jared II
from the car and hurled thirty feet be-
low on the tracks of the West Jersey
and Seashore Railroad. Miss Hamil Il
met instant death, while Mr.. Wolf 4
died shortly after
Il. G.. Pmmmer was the chauffeur I'm |
charge. He is employed by an auto l
mobile company in North Broad street. |
Strange to say, he was not injured |
According 20 Plummer. he was hurry
ing Wolf and Miss Hamil up from At
lantic city Both had been enjoying a /
visit at the shore for several weeks, [
and We're anxious TO reach their homes
in Philadelphia
soon after leaving the resort Plum |
mer bowled along at twenty miles an
hour. When about two miles below
Atco the chauffeur noticed that the
steering apparatus did not work easily
Nothing was thought OF that until
n nIaaa ...a
spied Hayes Mill Bridge. This Is a
small wooden structure that spans two
high banks over the railroad tracks.
Plummer. at the time he first saw
the bridge, says he was going az the
rate Of twenty miles an hour When
he saw there was a sharp bend IN the
road approaching the incline he shut
, down the speed TO ten miles an hour.
4 GEAR REFUSED TO WORK.
4 AS he cried to turn the car TO meet
the curve he was Mortified to discover
G the steering gear absolutely refused 10
y respand to his frantic clutches. So
Z rapidly was the car moving he had not
r sufficient time to think TO put on the
- brakes, although ne says he shut down
y the speed % iiVe miles an hour by the
time the car reached the bridge Not
machine slddded across the plankings
AT thls ipneture Nell aud Mis-.
AZ FIaniu realised the danger they were
W In. Both arose in their seats and called
b Ito Piummer TO stop the machine. That
n move was fatal for had they remained
2 IN their seats they might not have been
p thrown. While they were standing up
4 excitedly directing Plummcr what 20
do. the car slid across with terrific
force and struck the bridge railing.
The impact was 80 great that both
were hurled bodily from where they
were standing. Both bodies shot up IN
the air as Though thrown from a cata-
pult. They cleared the railing and
i. plunged TO the tracks.
| Plummer succeeded in stopping the re-
fractory car and hurriedly went to the
assistance Of the two unfortunates. He
/ found the woman dead. The man was
still breathing. Plummer al once sent
word TO Atco and a physician hurried
to the scene. but ne could do nothing
for Wolf. who was taken to Berlin
weber he died. His body was left there
while that Of Miss Hamll was brought
D. to the terminal in this city.
g Plummer. while not placed In con
N finement, was under the surveillance o
n Detective Harry Curtis. While the az
ft fair IS thought to have been purely
he accidental he viii be held until IL q
~ thoroughly investigated.
Wolf had been down az the shore at
"A tending the beach automobile race
n. since last Tuesday. While at Atlantis
City he had been guest of tn
Hamills IN their cottage at No. 4 Sten
ton Place lie was formerly a mem
H. Der OF battery G.. Fifth United States
re Artillery, and "The Social Register
OF gave his address formerly as Ponce
If Porto Rico. His summer home was a
~ No. 63l2 Morton street. Germantown
while i'm the winter he lived az No
l2lO7 Delaney street. Philadelphia. Tit
Hamin family had closed their hous
for the month OF September, and has
rented a cottage at No. A North STEM
ton Place. Mr.. Wolf and Miss Hamil
r were to be married this fan.
The bodies OF the victims were takei
| to Philadelphia this morning. That o
Miss Hamill was taken to her lat
home, No. IS East johnson street
r Germantown. and that il Neil Wolf I
ID his aunts residence. No. 2107 De Lance
stret. The young girl viii be burie
on Saturday or Monday from S
a Vincent de Paurs Church, German
IS. town. but the date of Mr.. Wolf
In funeral has not yet been decided upoi
owing the absence from the city OF HI
aunt, Mrs. Edward Maher.