Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-28
BIG DAMAGES FOR
BANKERS DEATH
Green Family Asks 100000
Suction of Train That Killed
Held Responsible.

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| A damage suit of unusual interest
will be on hearing in the Supreme
Court before Judge Frederick Adams.
starting Monday probably. The suit
is one for 100000 claimed as damages
from the Pennsylvania Railroad
| Company for the death of Louis G.
Green June l, 1911.
The suit was brought by Lucius
M. Monroe as executor of the estate
of Mr.. Greene, who at the time of his
death was cashier of the Fairfield Ma
tional Bank of South Norwalk, Conn,
and lived at New Canaan. that State.
| The suit is unusual in that it will be
claimed by the plaintiffs counsel that
his death was due to the suction
caused by train running at rapid
rate of speed through the Elizabeth
station of the Pennsylvania.
Mr. Monroe, the executor, will be
represented by George Glaze, of New
! York, and Howard McSherry, of this
city as counsel, while Horace Grice,
also of Newark is counsel of record.
The Pennsylvania company will be
represented by Vredenburg, Wall &
Carey
/. The facts in the case as shown by
the complaint are as follows: On
June /, 1911, Mr. Green, accompanied
by his wife and grown son, were in
Elizabeth in attendance at the we'd
ding of Miss Gentle and Chester
Waring. Following the ceremony in
! the evening, the Greens, with num-
ber of other guests, went to the Penn
! sylvania depot to take the train to
New York city.
They reached the depot about half
an hour ahead of the time their
train was scheduled to leave. Il
o'clock. The party, numbering eight
| or ten persons, was scattered on the
depot platform, when at about ll.40
the Federal Express, one of the Penn
sylvanias crack flyers, and which
does not stop at Elizabeth, came
came rushing through the depot.
According to the complaint the train
was an hour late and was running
at terrific rate of speed. Mr.,
Green. his son and DR.. George IL. Tier.
of Elizabeth, were standing near to
the edge of the platform, Mr.. Green
being about three feet from the edge.
AS the train came rushing through
the station some one yelled a warn
ing to Mr.. Green, and he was seen
to throw up both hands as though to
protect himself
1t was also noticed at this time that
the pilot of the engine had passed
him, but the next thing the specta-
tors knew Mr.. Green was sliding face
foremost along the platform. Dr..
Her threw himself on Mr.. Green's
body to prevent it being drawn under
the train by the air currents.
DIR. Her was successful in this, bu.
when the train passed 1t was dis
covered that Mr.. Green's skull was
fractured and that he had evidently
been hit by something projecting from
one of the cars as witnesses will tes-
tify that the engine passed him with
out striking him and that it was the
suction, caused by the high speed of
the train that made him lose his bal
ance and fall.
Mr.. Green never recovered con-
sciousness and died several hours
later in the Elizabeth General Hos
pital. When the engine and train
was examined after reaching Jersey
City there was nothing to show that
person had been struck, but the in-
ury to Mr.. Green's head, II 10 claimed,
could not have been inflicted solely
BY the fall to the platform caused by
the suction OF the train.