New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-14
TONI ANDERSON,
GOLF PRO, KILLED
UNDER HIS AUTO
Learning to Drive Car,
Runs Down Bank and
Machine OVerturnS.

Thomas Anderson, open golf cham
p.on of Pennsylvania and profes-
siona OF the Montclair Golf Club, who
was crushed beneath his automobile at
Prospect and Eagle Rock Avenues,
West Orange, last night. Death was
instantaneous.
Anderson bought the car two weeks
ago, and was driving with William H.
Mitchell, a demonstrator, Of % Rut-
gers Street, Newark, and Thomas Ward,
steward Of the Montclsir club. Pros
pect Street is unlighted near Eagle
Rock Avenue. The car hit a rut and
plunged down the side OF the road into
ten-foot gully. pinning Anderson un-
der it. Mitchell's leg was broken and
Ward was cut and bruised.
Anderson won the Pennsylvania open
championship last Monday for the sec
ond time. He was thirty years old and
came from Scotland ten years ago. He
had been professional at the Oakmont
Club, in Pittsburgh, and the Glen
Ridge Golf Club, in New Jersey. He
succeeded his father as professional at
Montclair two years ago.
Anderson, who was unmarried, was
brother of William Anderson, four
times open golf champion of the United
States. He leaves sister, Mrs. John
Watson, of Verona. n. j., and his
mother and three sisters in Scotland.
One girl was killed outright and an
other so severely injured that she will
probably die when they were struck by
an automobile truck belonging to the
Westcott Express Company, at Park
Avenue and 115th Street, last night.
The driver, James Rooney, of 227 East
Forty-siXth Street. was taken to the
East 104th Street police station on a
homicide charge.
The dead girl is Sarah Dieckman,
nineteen, of 151 East 1881 Street. She
was crossing Park Avenue under the
railroad viaduct with ner step-sister,
Rebecca Schulzinger, twenty-one, who
lives at rs East Hath Street. They
did not see the truck until it was al
most upon them, and in the darkness
under the bridge the chauffeur could
not see the two girls. The girls were
thrown twenty feet, and Miss Dieck-
man struck on her head.
Miss Schulzinger was taken in an
unconscious condition 10 the Harlem
Hospital. Miss Dieckman's body was
taken to the East 10th Street station
where it was identified by Mr.. and
Mrs. Schulzinger.
In his haste to escape after running
down a man, John Mueller, of 56 Kings
land Avenue, Williamsburg, lost his cap
and part of the tail light on his car,
according TO the police. Detectives
traced him by these bits of evidence
and arrested him. He was held in the
Manhattan Avenue police station for
felonious assault.
Nicholas Castrone, of 147 Withers
Street, Williamsburg, was the man
struck by the machine. He was taken
to ST. Catharine's Hospital with a
fractured skull and internal injuries.
Doctors say he probably will die.
An automobile driven by Abraham
Colish, of S66 Kelly Street, The Bronx,
Knocked down and badly injured eight
vear-old Edward Evans in front of his
home. at Forty-eighth Street and
Tenth Avenue, last night. Colish
stopped Immediately. and, taking the
child into his car, drove to the Poly
clinic Hospital. 1t was found that the
BOYS skull was fractured. Colish was
not held.
Jacob Guderman, a messenger boy. of
2S West Forty-third Street, was hit
while riding a bicycle at Broadway and
Forty-second Street last night by car
driven by George DruKsel. An ambu-
lance doctor from the Polytechnic Hos
pjtal found that Guderman had only
bruisas and scratches