Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-07-31
| DEAD, | HURT IN
2 AUTO ACCIDENTS
Monmouth Man Dies Following
Bruises in Crash - Perth
Amboyans in Mishap.

One man was fatally injured and
another severely injured in two au
| tomobile ACCIDENTS in Monmouth
county yesterday. William Layton,
| of Keyport, driving his taxi from
Red Bank to Keyport, struck mo-
| torcycle and side car owned by Will
| liam Holman, of Oceanic. Holman
was thrown into a ditch and died at
the Long Branch hospital from a
| fracture of the skull. A party of
local people In seven-passenger
Chandler, driven by Mrs. John Har-
per, of 223 State street, were shaken
| up when the touring car ran into an
auto moving van at Hazlet yesterday
afternoon. A colored helper stand
| ing by the truck was pinned between
| the touring car and van and his
right leg badly torn. He is now at
| the city hospital. Mrs. Harper s
mother-in-law sustained broken
right thumb.
| Mrs. Harper, who recently secured
a. drivers license, left Perth Amboy
early yesterday afternoon with the
| following party for Asbury Park:
| Mrs. Margaret T. Harper, Mrs. John
F. Reilley, of 236 Rector street, wife
of former City Clerk Reilley; Walter
H. Reilley, who recently was gradu-
| ated at law; Miss Carrie Amer, of
218 State street, and Richard and
t(1lE On 1l1nI ), ,.sis1i4fl.e and sixl
Iold sons OF Mrs. John T. Harper
| According to witnesses Mrs Har-
per was driving very carefully, and
was trailing a Ford car, which she
desired to pass and was "honking"
| to give notice to the Ford driver Mrs
| Harper saw big auto van standing
near the Hazlet garage, and kept
well to the right of the road. AS
she started to pass the Ford the
| driver of that car turned sharply in
| front of her, it is said, in his effort
| to avoid the standing truck The
| trailing Chandler was so close to the
| auto van and the Ford, when the lat
| ter suddenly swung across its path
| that Mrs. Harper at once saw that
| the Chandler would either strike the
Ford and probably cause a fatality
or she would have to turn the Chand-
| ler quickly to the left toward the
truck and risk collision. This she
| did, at the same time throwing on
| the brake. The big Chandler gave a
forward lurch before stopping, and
the right front wheel plunged into
the left forward wheel of the mas
sive van. Fergersen, who lives in
Newark and is twenty-nine years old
and had been oiling the truck, was
caught in the impact, and his right
leg badly torn. Mrs. Margaret Har-
per, who was sitting In the rear of
the machine, in trying to protect the
in Of h
her right thumb in some manner and
1t was broken The colored man.
who was suffering tense pain, was
taken to the office of DR.. H. S. Cooley
and Mrs. Harper attended by DR.. s.
H. Cassidy
The Chandler's left front axle
buckled up, and other damage was
done to the front of the machine,
which was put out of commission
The Perth Amboy Garage Company
sent car for the party and Ferger-
son was borugth to the office of DR..
NJ s. Meinzer, and thence to the city
hospital, where his injuries, though
very painful, are not considered Sc
rious.
The fatal accident at Middletown
occurred early yesterday. William
VI oCcdnIC, was TlUIHS MS
motorcycle, with side car, ON the left
of the road, it is said, on his way
from Keansburg.
William Layton's taxi, on its way
from Red Bank with party to Key
port, hit the side car. Holman was
hurled into a ditch at the side of the |
road and died at 1920 from a frae-
tured skull at the Long Branch hos |
pital, where he was removed in Fay's !
ambulance after the accident
Edgar Layton, driver of the taxi, |
was almost on top of the motorcycle |
In swerving out from the right to the |
left, his car hit the side car. The
front wheels of the taxi buckIed up
under the auto and the motorcycle |
was wrecked Mr. Holman was
t. 'rty years old and had a family. He
had worked for many years on the
Raymond Hoagland estate at Oce-