New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-05
2DEAD, DYING,
In AUTO CRASHES:
TRUCK FEELS BOY
Steering Gear Fails, Caus-
ing Bronx Upset-Jersey
Smash Laid to Drink.
DRIVER FLEES AFTER
HITTING LAD AT PLAY
Witnesses Pursue Escaping Man
In Valn-Two Injured In Re-
cent Accidents Die.

Thomas Dryer, Of 1861 Topping Ave
nue., The Bronx. was killed, his wife,
Emily, probably fatally injured, and
Mrs. Margaret Stocker, of l249 linton
Avenue, The Bronx, hurt when an auto
mobile which Dryer was driving upset
at Grand Concourse and Burnside Ave-
nue., The Bronx, last evening.
As the party was going south on the
Concourse at a good rate Of speed, &C
cording 20 the police, something went
wrong with the steering gear. The car
swerved sharply, tore up three small
trees on the roadside, jumped the curb
into the trucking driveway and turned
over on top OF its occupants.
Patrolman Bruins was behind the
Dryer car when the accident happened.
With the help Of pstrolmen from the
Bathgate Avenue station he lifted the
three victims into his automobile and
took them to the Fordham Hospital.
Dryer died as he was being lifted from
the car.
Mrs. Dryer has a fractured skull:
Mrs. Stocker sustained decorations OF
the face and head.
A fve-passenger touring car, con
tanning six men, skidded on slight
turn of the road, east of the Passaic
River Bridge, in Wellington, N. j.. last
night, struck a tree. and threw the
men out. Stanley Horant, Of Walling-
ton Avenue, Wellington, hit tree and
was killed John Fisher, of 20l Eighth
Street, .Passaic, and Benjamin Black
we'll, Of 81 Locust Avenue, Wellington,
will probably die. =.
Joseph Maggins, William Mayer and
Oscar Wickhoss, all Of Wellington, es.
capped unhurt. The machine belonged
to Mayors mother. The uninjured men,
who the police say were intoxicated,
were taken before Recorder Nicholas o..
Berry, in the Wellington station, and
were held without bail to await the &C
ton of the grand jury:
While twelve-year-old Rubin Polon-
sky. of 1913 DeKalb Avenue, Williams
burg, was playing football with other
boys near his home yesterday, he was
run down by motor truck, whose op-
orator after the accident made all haste
to get away. Several men tried 70 fol-
low up the vehicle. but it disappeared.
The boy, who sustained scalp wounds
and a conclusion of the brain, was
taken to St. Johns Hospital, where his
condition was pronounced critical.
Mrs. Sarah Levy, forty-eight, Of 24s
Division Street, Williamsburg, was
knocked down by an automobile operi
ated by Eugene Phillips, of Garden
City, Long Island, at Marcy Avenue
and South Fourth Street. Williams
burg. She was taken to the Williams
burg hospital in serious condition.
A motor truck of the United Furni-
ture Company, in charge Of Louis
Brown, of Ill East 10th Street, struck
an automobile operated by Benjamin
Bakin, of SO Avenue C, at briggs Ave-
nue. and North Eleventh Street, Will
iamsburg, yesterday. Both men were
injured, but refused to go to hos
pital.
Charles Purcell, of 262 West Thirty
seventh Street, who was run down by
an Adams Express Company automobile
truck, driven by Edward Morrison, in
front of PA West Twenty-sixth Street
on Friday night, died yesterday morn
ing in Bellevue Hospital.
Mrs. Margaret Hebble, ffty-eight
years old, who lived AZ 100 West 1920
Street, The Bronx, died in the Red
Cross Hospital yesterday from injuries
received when struck by an automobile
truck on November II. The accident
occurred when Mrs. Hebble was cross-
ing Fifth Avenue at 102d Street.