New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
TWO Die UNDER
WHEELS OF AUTOS
TWeIve-TOn Truck Runs
Over Lad, ID, When He
Falls from Load.
DR.. BORDEN HELD ON
CHARGE OF HOMICIDE
Long Island Railroad Appeals 10
Drivers for More Care at
Grade Crossings.

Two died under the wheels OF auto
mobiles Yesterday, several were injured
and the endemic Of accidents on grade
crossings caused the Long Island Kali
road 10 issue a public appeal for more
careful driving.
One Of the dead was Henry Gere-
delta. four wears old. Of 2l13 Arthur
nv. The Bronx. lie was playing IN the
street while his mother was at 1er
work. He fell under a truck and MS
skull was fractured. An ambulance
started With him for Fordham Hospital
but ne died on the way.
John Rcichert fourteen years Old,
md. with mis- brother, the sole support
Of his mother. was almost cut IN TWO
Lv a motor truck loaded with brick:
Tho boy was riding on the load ana
slipped of under one Of the rear wheels
rs the truck left some yards near
HackcGsack.
Two other boys jumped and tried 10
crab him as he stumbled and pitcned
forward They missed. and the wneel
ran over Young Rechert's body Inc
muck with its load weighed twelve tons:
Though injured beyond all nope o:
recovery. the boy had his senses ana
talked with his friends until pnysl-
clan arrived. three quarters OF an nour
later. He died while his injuries we're
being examined. He lived at wv Main
It.. Passaic. Nathan. .
harden for the killing OF Mounted "a
trolman John Nee in Broadway f!ush-
inc. early Wednesday morning. ne
rhysician was charged win hoHlclue
and put under $4,000 bail.
Though Rorden's car ran down the
,,oIiceman as he sat on his horse, killed
,be man and broke the horses leg, Pa
trolman Abraham Newman, who sa"
tho accident. preferred against DR.. Bor-
Ien a charge OF running his car win
the muffler open.
"It * almost like comic opera, sald
MAGISTRATE Fitch. ito bring man TO
lonr, on such charge after he had
beon connected with the death OF an
other. When the engineer OF tram
LiIls a man he is held on charge
~ homicide. and I do not see why
II should not be so IN TINS case
An engineer uses rails on private
highway. while this man used a publlc
Highway. | should therefore consider
him even more responsible than an en-
gineer." I'D
Mrs. James A Blair. wife Of the Broad
ST. banker. and her nurse. MISS ElIeh
Uahan. who were pitched through
window when the Blair automobile
bumped Corona trolley car Wednes-
dav afternoon, are doing well at ~.
John's Hospital. Long Island CITY.
Their injuries are confined to cuts on
he head and face and. in Mrs. Blair
ca.c severe shock. They will be out
within week.
The Long Island Railroads appeal lS'
in part, as follows:
IAN epidemic OF automobile accldeh',
AZ grade crossings on the Long lslahd
Railroad hes reached such alarming
rrono,,ions in the last six weeks that
the management is compelled to can
tho attention Of the public to the recK.
icss driving that characterizes much OF
tho automobiling on the island.
since June 10 there have been Nv"
;,stoncos where automobiles have been
driven through crossing gates that were
doyr or have been driven over cross
mos regardless Of the danger signals
given BY the watchmen.'
An automobile owned and operated
nv Or. Warren S Simmons knocked
down Peter MOnegetto, OF 30 ChriS'o-
nher St. Manhattan. on Surf av, Cohey
island. last night. Monegetto was
taken diving 20 Coney Island Hospital
Ho had severe internal and otner IN
juries. o.,
Or Simmons. who is house surgeon
q, the Swedish Hospital. Brooklyn ana
lives at 2l6 St James, Place; 'ha'
borough. was locked up. charged WIN
reckless driving. intoNcaIon ana Nlo-
lation Of highway rules. -