Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-04
WOMAN IS DYING
AFTER AUTO CRASH
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mar Philip Sebold that he was in Nor
ristown to attend a patient. He sayi
he made the acquaintance of Miss
Blake recently and invited her to com,
to Newark to have dinner with him
The physician had his w machine, II
which he had come from Lansdowne
/ When first placed under arrest the ply.
sician gave his name as Entry and hi:
address as 6s12 Lancaster Pike, Phila'
delphia. He said his companions name
was Ellen Green.
Speeding Forty Miles an Hour.
DR.. Gentry is an author. He ha:
written short stories for magazines nm
der the nom-de-plume of Brooks.
PlaincIothesman Sebold, who has
conducted an investigation, has the
names of several witnesses who declare
! hat the doctor was going at a rate
of about forty miles an hour. Thu
plainclothesman declared that he
picked pieces of the spring out of the
tree. The physician told Sebold that
he was trying to avoid a wagon, and
in trying to put his foot on the brake
made a mistake and placed his foot on
the auXiilator.
Patrolmen who were in the vicinity
declare that the physician was trying
to avoid a Bergen street car which was
going east. They say the auto was
on the wrong side of the street.
A Star reporter went to the address
given in Philadelphia, but no physician
by that name could be found. In Nor
ristown no one by the name of Green
could be located. At the United States
Hotel it was said that the I'M has
been employed there for the past four
months. she had come from a New
YoHS employment agency under tho
name of Mary Hoffman.
SAt the. City Hospital this morning 1t
was stated that there is little nance
for the recovery of Gustav Stiers, of 10
Orange place, who was run down at
Washington and James streets shortly
after 4 O'Clock Yesterday afternoon. He
has a fractured skull at the base of the
brain and although he is resting easier
todayt the nature of the injury Is such
that he can hardly survive.
Mr.. STEERS, who is 50 years old, was
crossing James street when an automo-
bile turned the corner from Washing
ton street. the. side Of the machine
SITlhlllG HIS anu hhOSnAAl6 hAh W NAN
pavement. The driver of the a con-
tinued down James street withou even
a glance around and his identity is still
unknown to the police. One clue was
offered by a mar giving the name of
James Bryant, of $50 Broad street, who
stated that he secured the number of
the car and that it bore a manufacture
ers' tag No. S7S N J.
Injuries sustained by Joseph Boni-
face, 81 years old, of 20 South
Twelfth street, when he was struck
last night by an automobile driven by
Adolph C. Navatier, of 129 South
Eleventh street, consisted chiefly of
bruises about the body. and after re-
ceiving treatment at the City Hos
pital he was able to go unassisted to
his home. He was crossing South
Eleventh street, near Thirteenth ave.
nue., at the time of the accident.
Mrs. Emma Monroe, SIS years old, Of
27S Mulberry street, who was struck
by an automobile owned and driven by
Joseph Fenias, of 1856 Bloomfield ave-
nue.. while crossing the street last night
in front of 1S5 Market street, sus-
tanned slight injuries and was removed
to her home.