The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-17
Miss EsteIla Traphagen Worst
Injured-Miss Marcella Con-
nell Other Victim.
MARRIED MAN AND BROKERS'
FORMER WHIP ON A LARK
Smash on Trolley Tracks Re-
veals Night OF Revelry and
Brings Irate Wife Here.

In the collision of a big automobile
with a Roseville trolley car at Orange
and Plane streets just before dawn to-
day two young girls were seriously in
jured, one perhaps fatally; one man was
I hurt, the clandestine outing of a promi-
nent resident of Summit was revealed
and the automobile was wrecked
! James s. Gray. married and with a
family, of $50 Springfield avenue. Sum
init, is held by the police of the Second
i Precinct station pending the result oil
the injuries of Miss Estella Traphagen.
/ Is years old. of 404 South Eleventh
street this city, who is in the City Hos
pital with fractured skull. with pos
sible internal injuries and who may die.
Miss Marcella Connell. Ii years old.
Of Ill Sussex avenue. this city, is also
in the hospital, with broken left arm
and numerous cuts and bruises about
the body.
Andrew Harris, who has been living
az the Beechwood Hotel. in Summit,
but not as a. guest. and who was. until
today, coachman for W. H. Truesdale.
u millionaire Wall street broker. whose
family lives at the Beechwood. was
with Gray and sustained such severe
cuts and bruises that he. too, was sent
to the City Hospital
Mrs Gray. the angry little wife Of
the host of last nights all-night auto
outing, came to Newark today with
her lawyer to see what she could do
Tor her husband. Gray is considered
well-to-do and is known to have ac-
tad III
summit He owns large laundry
there
! Ask Girls 10 Jofn Them.
Gray and Harris rode to this cjtv
and went to Olympic Park last night.
In leaving the park at 10 80 D. m. they
approached the two girls and invited
them to take q drive Marcela Con-
nell lives with her widowed motherin
siX-story tenement and works hard
! every day in Campbell's = tobacco fac
| tory with her sister. Miss Traphagens
family is in better circumstances. Her
/ father Arthur Traphhagen, is a stair
] builder, and the family has a nice
home Miss Traphagen did not work.
but she and Miss Connel had been
friends for years.
According to Gray's story to the POI
lice they intended to drive the girls 10
their homes, but found a restaurant
in Plane street, where Harris insisted
that they eat. Leaving there, they
started for a place ont at the edge OF
town, which Harris said he knew
about The police say the party had
evidently been drinking.
The accident occurred at about 4:30
o. m. The impact with tho trolley car
threw the men and women out of the
machine. and Policeman Whitman, who
was near by had all he could do for
half an hour in getting ambulances
+ and a patrol wagon and mnistering
to the injured before they started for
the hospital
Gray told the police that he was not
going at more than twenty miles an
hour when the machine hit the car.
that the trolley car was racing, and
that he could not avoid ii. The front
j of the automobile was badly dam
aged. It hit the side OF the car, and
the police say that this shows Gray.
who was driving. was TO blame. AS he
came out of Plane street going north.
he hit the side OF the trolley, which
was going west He did not have time
to stop
VIII ~.Settlc" with Husband.
Mrs. Gray was greatly astonished
when informed of the facts surrounding
the accident She and her husband,
who is one of the leading business men
of Summit, have moved in good social
circles there, and Gray has been con-
sidered of acceptable character, She
did not know Harris, had never heard
of him and could not understand how
her husband could go on pleasure
jaunt with a coachman. When she
started for Newark with her lawyer