New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-30
Half Dozen Others in CITY
and Vicinity Injured
Some May Die.
3 OF DEAD LITTLE
ONES ON STREETS
James Young Runs Away After
Striking Boy-Motorcyclist
Dies to Save Child.

were killed in New York City and cub
urbs yesterday in motor vehicle acct
dents, and half a dozen persons we're
injured, some Of them perhaps fatally.
Two men were arrested for manslaIyh-
ter.
One Of those arrested is James
Young, stage director of the Vitagraph
Company of America. He ran down and
killed eight-year-old Morris Appel
baum in front of the chi!d's home, ct
324 Alabama sv., Brooklyn. While the
dying boy was being examined by am
bulance surgeons Young and a friend
got into the car and drove away.
Some one in the crowd noticed
Young's action and took the number Of
the disappearing machine. This vas
given to the police, who arrested the
moving picture man yesterday after
noon at his home, 1853 East 18th ST.,
FIatbush.
81 ran because ] was afraid OF the
crowd which gathered" Young told the
police. ~ thought the people would at
tack me. / meant to surrender myself
but drove home first. The accident un-
nerved me-"
Young was taken at once TO the New
Jersey av. court, arraigned and held
for the Coroner.
A two-ton coal truck crushed the life
out Of Jeanette Davidson, two years
old, who toddled into the streets after
a kitten. Mrs. Davidson saw the scci-
dent from her home, 322 New Lots ~.
East New York. and ran out in time to
take up her little daughter and hold
her as she died. The driver of the coal
truck wept as he knelt beside the body
in the street.
John Il. Kansky, ten years old, of %
Bowery, Newark, died late in the al
ternoon in the Jersey City Hospital
from a compound fracture Of the skull.
He was run down by Howard Webster,
of II Erie ST., Jersey City. a few hours
before at the east end OF the Hacken-
sack River bridge of the Plank Road.
Webster was arrested.
Ray Burris, Of Sloatsburg, y. Y, sac
rifced his life to save a little girl.
Burris was riding down the main street
in Sloatsburg when Ada Blaney, three
years old, appeared from behind wag-
on, running to save her doll, which lay
in Burris's path.
Burris swung sharply to avoid the
child. The motorcycles rear wheel
skidded, and the rider was pitched
headlong. His skull was fractured, and
he died without regaining conscious
ness.
The early morning rains are blamed
for one of yesterdays accidents. The
automobile of DR.. Lorenzo B. Phillips,
of "A Sheridan Boulevard, lnwood,
skidded in Broadway, Hastings, and
turned upside down. The physician and
Mrs. Phillips were pinned under the
car. A citizen in his house nearby
heard the crash, ran out and tried to
raise the automobile and release me
couple Then he returned TO the house
and telepnoned to ST. Johns Hospital
for an ambulance and TO a Hastings
garage for a wrecking car.
A crew raised the automobile and
dragged out DR.. and Mrs. Phillips after
they had lam unconscious IN the road
wav for half an hour. A physician
failed TO revive them, and they we're
taken 10 the hospital. Both probably
will recover.
The two men who flashed along
Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, Sunday
night on motorcycle, lost con-
troll Of il while it was going seventy
miles an hour, and had their lives
dashed out against a telegraph pole,
we're identified yesterday. They were
Ernest Denekin, Of 3s7 Third av., and
William Luttgers, of p Third av., Man
haitian.
Charles Hart, who lived in Balm
bridge St. Brooklyn, died in the Swed-
ish Hospital early yesterday morning
Hart was driving mail wagon last FRI,
dav week when an auto truck smashed
INTO him at 3lst st. and Seventh ave. He
WAS taken to Bellevue Hospital. -al-
ysis developed and he died witho oe-
ING able TO give any account Of the
accident. -,
He was transferred to the Swedish
Hospital last Saturday. He had driven
a Tribune mail wagon for twenty-five
years.