New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-18
WENzELL'S SON
DEAD IN JOY RIDE
Artists Boy Dies as Dor
rOwed Auto Hits Pole
Four Friends Injured.
THREE KILLED, % HURT
IN MOTOR CRASHES
Miss Violet Gould Thrown 10
Street from frances Machine
on Riverside Drive.


Three dend and twenty-five hurt was
tho automobile toll in and around New
York City yesterday.
In an automobile owned by Prose
cu,or Thomas j. Huckin seven boys OF
Englewood, y. j., went JOY riding Sat
urday night. They had visited Haver-
straw and were returning early yester-
day morning when the machine struck
q telegraph pole, killing Arthur Allen
Wenzell, sixteen, a son Of Albert Beck
Wenzell. tho illustrator, and seriously
iniuring four other.
The four seriously hurt are IN the
Nyack Hospital They are:
Cornelius Ryan, sixteen, right arm
broken, decorations Of face and head.
Edward Boleu. eighteen. nose broken,
lacera.ions Of head ard body.
James Miasky, seventeen. spine IN
iured. bruises Of face and body.
William Lachmund, seventeen, frac-
tured skull and decorations.
The two others-George Flotard, six
teen. and Francis Marsa, ffteen-es-
caped with minor cuts and bruises.
According TO the other boys, Lach-
mund took possession of the car which
Mr.. Huckin had left standing outside
Of the Englewood Theatre. The boy
drives a machine for a local delicats5-
sen store, and the switch plug which
ne carried in his pocket fitted the
prosecutors car. lie climbed in, the
boys said, and invited the others to go
for ride.
Dsshes Into Telegraph Pole.
The return trip from Haverstraw was
begun at 1880 in the morning. Near
Congers Lachmund il is said, lost con-
troll of the machine and it ran into a
telegraph pole. Leopold Kley. Of Con-
gers, saw the wreck in passing and
telephoned to DR.. Ralph De Baum.
Flotard and Marsa became frightened
when they heard the physician say that
Wenzell was dead and fed. The were
arrested by policeman in the Nyack
station later.
Lechmund's condition is critical, but
If he RECEIVERS, it is said, the police
will prefer charges.
Miss Violet Gould, nineteen years
old, of SIS West Ninety-ninth Street.
seated on the running board, was
rounding Riverside Drive and Ninety
third Street in the big racing car oper-
ated By her fance, Thomas Lenane, Jr,
Of IS West Eighty-second Street, when
q sudden swerve threw her into the
roadway. She landed on her elbow.
DR.. Steele, Of Knickerbocker Hospital,
said she had possible fracture or the
elbow. The young woman, who is the
daughter of Joseph Gould, a broker, in
sisted that she continue on her way to
the Hote! Ansonia, where she had
dinner engagement. In the car az the
time was Miss Flora Gould, twenty
one, sister OF Violet Young Lenane is
the son Of Thomas Lenane, wealthy
grain merchant, with offices at 3O'
West Street.
While playing in front of his home
at 314 Last Eighty-second Street,
Philip Janson, jr., five years old. was
knocked down by an automobile driven
by Joseph Lionetti, of $40 East Twen-
ty-second Street. He was taken to
Flower Hospital. but died soon after
reaching there. The chauffeur was ar
rested.
Thomas Cain. four years old, Of 442
West l25th Street. was struck by an
automobile owned by Edward 5. Hatch.
of the law firm Of Hatch G. Clute. 100
broadway. as he was playing tag in
the street near his home. Mr.. Hatch
was not in the machine. which was
driven by his chauffeur. G. T. Swan
son.
The boy ran from the sidewalk,
chased by n playmate. and lodged one
automobile. dashng in front of the
machine operated by Swanson. The
boy was taken to the Knickerbocker
Hospital. where he died at 10 o'clock
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