Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-07
GIRL KILLED, AUTO
LICENSE REVOKED
State Commissioner RevOkes
H0ffman's Right to Drive
for Princeton Death.
POLICE SEEK WOMAN
IN CAR ON FATAL RIDE
Sne~ Vanished After Accident.
Driver Is Held at Mercer
County JaiI.
frron q stan Correspondent

TRENTON. N. j.. April THE
commissioner of motor vehicles today
summarily revoked the drivers
license of Irving A. Hoffman, chauf-
seur for Joseph f. Moran, President
OF the Atlantic Basin Iron Works,
Brooklyn. who yesterday afternoon
ran down and. killed Miss May Dur
yea. at Princeton. Hoffman lives at
1905 New York avenue. Brooklyn. He
is now confined in the Mercer county
gail, held without bail to await an OK
animation into the death Miss
Duryea.
The machine in which Hoffman
and Moran were riding hit Miss Dur
yea on the Washington road, near
Princeton. NJ ]. In the car was n
woman. who disappeared after the
accident After all nearby cities had
been given the number of the ma
chine both men were arrestd at New
Brunswick an hour later. They had
sped away from the scene of the
killing without waiting to inquire the
extent of Miss Duryea's injuries.
Miss Duryea and her chum, Ethel
Lloyd, were walking along Washing
ton road. to Carnegie lake, about 4
o'clock The approach of Moran's car
was made known to the girls by the
screech Of it's horn. Both looked back
nervously. Witnesses say the auto
was going at high speed. Screaming,
the young women parted and started
to the side OF the highway.
Hoffman made q frantic effort to
avoid them but zigzagging of the
machine evidently bewildered Miss
Duryea and ii is said, she stepped in
front of the car. A lamp struck her,
fiinging her twenty feet. She was
dead when picked up by crowd of
men and women who had seen the
accident.
Hoffman not only made no at
tempt to halt the auto. but witnesses
say, he increased its speed. Miss
Lloyd caught the license number OF
the machine, 2497 N. j.
soon after the cars number had
been sent out with q description of
The machine. Patrolman William
Robinson went to the Albany street
bridge, New Brunswick, thinking 1t
would be a favorable lookout from
which to spy the fleeing car, as the
point commands view of the river
road, a much used auto thorough
fare. Three-quarters of an hour
later he saw q gray touring car an
Awering the description of the Moran
machine approaching rapidly in a
veil OF dust. In II We're two men and
a woman.
Robinson waved his arms and
shouted. The machine didn't stop.
andrew Weingart, of New Bruins
wick, was passing in his car Rob-
inson ran across the road, hailed
sveingart. and jumped in the ma
chine. The chauffeur of the gray car
made a desperate attempt to gain
The bridge first. But the policeman
told Weingart to go at full speed,
which he did. The gray car was
headed Off.
The woman with Moran jumped
It of the car as it stopped and
Anished in the railroad station, The
plice want her as witness.
PLAINFIELD, N. j.. April Am
automobile, in which Mr.. and Mrs.
n M. Henderson, Mr.. and Mrs w.
h. Hill and a young medical student
named Willis, all of Roselle, was
struck by a trolley car on Terrill
road Yesterday. Mrs. Lamberson, the
only one in the auto party hurt, suf-
tered from shock and received bruises
about the body.
The auto was badly wrecked and
the party had to return home in an
other machine. 1t is contended that
The auto stopped on the tracks and
the trolley was so close that the mo-
foripan was unable to prevent the
collision.
PATERSON, N. j.. April benny
Van Sickle, 10. of Ridgewood. known
IN that town as q speed maniac, met