New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-20
TURNS AUTO TO SAVE
BOY AND KILLS WOMAN
Sister Walking with Her Also
Hit by st. VinCent'S Hos
pitaI Ambulance.
MACHINE RUNS ON SIDEWALK
Accident Befalls Women Return
ing from Saying Prayers in
Church for a Recently
Departed Relative.

One woman was killed and another
seriously injured by the automobile am
buIancc Of St. Vincent's Hospital last
wight which was speeding down Secohu
ovenue. at 18th street, when 1t had 70
+,,rr sharply toward the right TO avolo
small boy in IT'S path.
-rho machine was going at such nigh
.o.od that the chauffeur lost control OF
bis steering wheel for a moment ana .i'e
rar leaned the curb and crossed the siue-
walk.
In doing this It struck the two women
Willing Mrs May Lachman. wife OF Der Der
rard IaChman, a salesman, 81 No 80
West 14th street and injuring her '''
Ter Miss Frances Farrell VINO was
saxon n Bellevue Hospital, where II WAS
xsid she was not expected to recover
Mrs I,achmar and her sister hau at
.a.a 81 AIMS Roman CathoHV
c.,,,r.b at 10Th street. between Thiru
and Fourth avenues, and were on 'ne''
.rev 70 the Anawanda club or la'l''n""S
1J.r a. Goth street and Second avenue
-, str,,ck bv the ambulance WhlVn
nd lust transferred a patient fro'" -
S-,,.o,,t,s IIosrital to Bellevue and was
IN it's return trip.
Arthur J. Lyons was at the "hee' ',iO
rss driving II At fast pace down ''e
broad stretch on Second avenue l''"l
s+r,vesant Park. when q boy stepped
-. +ro,ro The west curb. Lyons gave lhe
.,aerine wheel q sudden wrench to aNo'o
cumming down the boy and the car spec
almost At right angles toward the sue
walk
This ouick move on the part Of Lyons
saved the BOYS life. but it meant oea'n
for Mrs I.achman. who was walking
.lorgsi6a the iron railing of the park at
that point
The action IF the automobile was 50
spdden that she and her sister had no
time 70 escape. The front part OF the
machine struck Mrs Lachman. who was
oearest tho curb. such a blow that her
sd. went with crushing force against
the heavy iron posts.
The force Of the impact was so great
that her right arm was almost torn from
she body Several of her ribs were tract
pred and her skull was crushed. Death
a. vas said. must have been instanta-
reous.
Miss Farrell was struck by one o. the
front wheels. She received internal IN
iruries and other serious wounds. one
was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in an
other ambulance. and the surgeons last
might held ont but slight hopes for her
recovery.
Af-o~ striking the women the ambu-
Ssnce came to stop within a rev
,,,ches Of the iron fence Lyons, who re-
saired his grip on the wheel was un'
'Surt but Dr. Nicholson, the ambulance
surgeon. received a painful cut over the
left eve.
Pstrolman Peckner, Of the East I'D
etreet police station, who arrived on the
Ecene a few minutes later, sent call Tor
IAN ambulance to Bellevue Hospital, and
sDrs. Dalton and Cahill, after pronounc-
ine Mrs. L.achman dead hurried her sis
Ter TO the hospital
LYONS was arrested on a charge OF
sf7omicide and locked up in the station
mouse. The automobile was so little
damaged after the accident that it was
taken back TO st. Vincents Hospital by
.another driver.
The body Of Mrs. Lachman was taken
30 the police station, where It was iden-
titled b. her husband. Two weeks age
Mrs. Lachmans sister Rose died, and
the dead woman and Miss Frances Far
rell had gone to the church to offer up
tprayers for Rose.