Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-24
TWO KILLED, TWO
INJURED IN AUTO
TRAGEDIES IN CITY
Richard T;Ilard, Vice-President
of Scales Brother Co., Is
Struck Near Home.

Two arraignments on charges of
manslaughrer took place today as the
result of a series of weekend and
Sunday auto fatalities and accidents.
Richard Tillard. $3.50 Clinton avenue,
the vice-president of Scales Brothers
Company, was struck by an automo-
bile while crossing Clinton avenue in
front of his home. He died in the
City Hospital
In connection with his death Arthur
Nungesser thirty-six years old, of sol
Clinton avenue, was arraigned before
Judge Hahn in the First Criminal
Court on a charge of manslaughter
made by Captain Samuel Brown, of
the Sixth precinct
Mr.. Nungesser broke down and
wept while waiting for bail to be
fixed in the prosecutors office. He
was released on a bond of 81. 900 given
by Edmund f. Becker of 49I Clinton
avenue.
The victim of the second fatal ac-
eident was Saul Gross, aged seven, of
107 Barclay street
Seventeen-year- Robert Abrams,
of 81 North Willow street, Montclair
who drove the machine that hit the
boy, was held without bail in the
Fourth Precinct Police Court on a
later released by the prosecutors Of
flee on a bond of $1,000 provided by
his father, Harry Abrams.
Crushed Under Auto.
Mr.. Tillard walked in front of Nun
gesser's car late Saturday While he
was crossing from the south to the
north side of Clinton avenue. He was
knocked down and both the front
and rear wheels passed over him. The
auto was running east in the car
tracks and Nungesser, according to
his own story did not have q chance
to turn out quickly enough to avoid
hitting him. Mr.. Tillard died in the
City Hospital early yesterday morn
ing from a fractured skull.
Funeral services will be held in st.
Barnabas's Episcopal Church Wed
nesday afternoon.
Mr.. Tillard, together with his busi-
ness associates, Arthur Scales and
James w. Scales, was connected with
Wilkinson, Gaddis & Co., Inc, for
more than twenty-five years. The
three men later formed the Scales
Brothers Company. wholesale gro
GERS, of go Jelliff avenue.
Mr.. Tillard was forty-nine years
old and unmarried. He is survived
by sister, Mrs. Henry s. Griffith,
of Ridgewood road, West Orange,
and brother, Henry Tillard, who is
connected with the office of Tyler
Parmly, city comptroller.
Little Saul Gross was killed while
playing with boy friends in front OF
his home yesterday afternoon.
"Knuckle- down. called one of hi.
comrades That was the signal for al
the boys in the game to stand still
Gross was running across the street
At the call he stopped short, directly
in the path of an automobile driver
by young Abrams and occupied by his
mother and three relatives. The ma.
chine struck Gross. and hurled him
to the pavement. A rear wheel passed
over his chest, crushing him instantly
to death.
car and taken to st. Barnabas's Hos
pital. Later 1t was taken to Holes
morgue.
Funeral services were held in the
home of the boys parents this after
noon. Burial was in the Orthodox
Cemetery.
Boy Run Down by Auto.
In another auto accident, Edward
Ferguson, aged fifteen, of lit Broome
street, was slightly hurt last night.
He had been lettering outside Pattie
Watkins Lindsay meeting at 289 Mar
ket street. William McKain, the care
taker, chased him away and he ran In
front of the machine of r. It. Kelly,
of 7 Grove terrace, Montclair. Mr..
Kelly took him to st. Barnabas's Hos
pital, where 1t was found that he had
escaped with bruises about the body
and left foot. The seventeen-year- old
son of Mr.. Kelly, who was driving the
automobile. was arrested and paroled.
In this case as in that of Gross, the
car was being driven by boy of less
than the legal age. A drivers license
cannot be obtained by a minor under
eighteen years old.