Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-25
JITNEY HITS HERD OF HORSES
cars Occupants Hurt, Two Animals
killed-Other Casnalties

snso "a ylney travelling at high rate Of
Car,S. 9 long the White Horse pike, near
n 5ro,.a Ssis morning ploughed through
p,,tia,Nv on horses being brought 10 tbe
animals. N'''nB Two OF the
me car was overturned. but the occu-
pants escaped with bruises. Tho Ininrod
80, MTs' Besshie Hopttmer, 4s1 Carteret
Daniel Levin, 1910 Haddon eve
nue. occupants OF the car. and Gsorgo
thohd, OF 5I2 Federal street driver ~
M sle lltney, all Of Camden. Phiiip Dor
SeSo , Market street; John Marsh. sstb
59 os5I DaiVe S streets, and Edward simpson
SeSt Filbert street, drovers who ySors
pIlhslng the horses TO PhIladelpbta. yvero
also bruised and cut
storm Of criticism was directad To-
DAY at the 'death-trap" AZ YORK rood o,,a
She.ten ~ avenue where Miss Mary Fay. of
q Union avenue, Oak Lane. received
p.vpaoly iatal Injuries last night and
"here more than n score of persons have
neen Killed or seriously injured by am
soinoblles. A year ago Judge Maver
sulsberger chrlstened the spot 'Death-
rap, and the phrase Is being freely
used In Oak Lane and portions of Ger
mantown today.
Magistrate Pennock today held Frank
DetwlIer OF 40i7 Glrard avenue, driver
OF the car which knocked Miss Fsv
qqown, In $1,000 bail for further hearing
July l. The woman Is in the Jewish
Hospital. Her companion, James ST.
monans. of S26 South 18th street. was
not hurt
Gangs stIll infest certain sections OF
the city and make walking on the streets
dangerous after dark. according to the
testimony of Ernest Wldmire, 20 years
old, Of 14l4 Kerbaugh street, before Mag
istrate Morris today. williams said he
was confronted by large crowd of row.
dies at 2Sth and oxford streets shortly
before midnight and was severely beaten.
He accused William McCloskey, of 47th
street and Girard avenue, who was cap
tured after a chase, OF being the ring
leader. McCloskey was severely repri-
manded and held in $500 bail for fur
ther hearing.
A body believed to be that OF Chief
Engineer Ganoway, of the British steam
ship Bradford, who was drowned last De-
cember, was brought UP today by a
dredge working in the Delaware River
near the Port Richmond grain elevators,
Four daylight robberies were reported
to the police today. They all occurred
yesterday afternoon when thieves gained
entrance through doors and windows left
unguarded. John Rogers, a lodger at
1706 Race street, lost s25 in cash and s375
in jewelry from his room Harry Rosen-
berg. of 1919 York street, missed S16l in
jewelry. A thief took $67 worth of jewelry
from the home of Henry Moehle, 544 East
Allegheny avenue. John C. Ingle, l7l2
North 18th street. missed $50 worth Of
jewelry from his apartments.
Mrs. Jennie Binder, widow, employed
as domestic at 5145 Locust street, was
held without bail today by Magistrate
Beaton to await the action of the Cor
oner. She is accused Of throwing her
baby out of a window the day it was
born.
The Sure Thing Association" an al
legged baseball pool club, came to grief
today when Hugh Farron, cigar store
keeper at 23d and Cambria streets, was
arrested and held under $500 bail for
hearing tomorrow. More than 500 cou-
pons, the police say, were found in Far
ron's store. Offering various prizes for
high and low scores.
Robert Davidson, years old, 1923 Pop
lar street, was run over and seriously
injured by shifting engine on the tracks
of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
way, at s1st and Poplar streets, today
The boy had been playing ball with his
sister. He was taken to the Mary j.
DreXel Home.
Instant death by electrocution was the
fate today of Karl Schiehe. p years old,
Of 517 Willow street, JenNntown, when
wire which he was pulling crossed high
tension wire at Valley Falls, three miles
from Abingdon. He was a lineman FOR
the Philadelphia Suburban Gas and Elec-
trio Company Coroner McGlathery of
Montgomery County. gave a certificate of
accidental death and the body was sent
to Pottstown, where Schiefie's parents
live.
Criers of fake news were warned today
by Judge johnson, in Quarter Sessions
Court. when he dismissed Samuel samp-
son, 20 years old, S2S North 9Th street
accused of obtaining money under false
pretenses. Sampson did a flourishing
newspaper business a month ago by cry
ing UNITED States Declares War on Ger
manyg' He threw himself on the mercy
of the Court, saying he had eight brothers
and sisters to support.