Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-22
AUTO KILLS CHILD
ON WAY TO HOSPITAL
TO VISIT MOTHER
Physicians Machine Strikes Lit
tie Girl Near Institution.
49th Victim of Motor
Fatalities
TEN PERSONS INJURED

| Laura Chedt years and months old
| started out from her home, 304 Fedora
street this afternoon, to visit her mother
| who is patient in Mt, Sinai Hospital
She was carried into the institution dead
| few minutes later, 49th victim Of auto
| mobile fatalities since January 1.
The machine which killed the little girl
| on her errand of mercy was the property
| of DIR. Louis Fisher, of 1922 South 5th
street. an inferno at the institution into
which he carried the crushed body of the
little victim, and the accident occurred al
the door of the hospital at 5th and Wilder
streets.
Dr. Fisher was arrested Immediately
after the affair and WAS sent TO City Hall
for hearing before Magistrate PennoclS.
He was operating the car at the time and
declares the chid's death was entirely un.
avoidable.
No one knows how the child made her
way from her home to 9Th and Wilder
streets. with remarkable intelligence, she
had made the journey from her home to
9th street and had reached Wilder street.
where the hospital stands, just as Dr.
Fisher was backing his car eastward from
5th street, He declares he did not see tho
little girl and was unaware of her presence
until the jolt of the car and the shrek from
beneath 1t caused him to investigate. He
found the child under the body of the ma.
chine, the rear wheels having passed over
her
DOCTOR tlSner picked up the tiny body
and ran into the receiving ward A glance
showed the physicians there that death
had resulted instantly.
Policeman Owens, of the Moyamensing
avenue station house, took Doctor Fisher
into custody.
Two other names were added today to
the list of eight persons injured, three
probably fatally, In automobile and motor
cycle crashes in the last "a hours. They
are.
NATHAN sCHANsKY; years old. 31o Hall
street. concussion of brain; Mt. Sinai Hospital.
JOSEPH HANRATTY, 10 years old of 3O70
Hospital.
Schansky was found at 4th and Dickin.
son streets at o'clock this morning. after
he had either fallen in stealing a ride or
been struck by the automobile of Charles
Sonkin, Of 729 Emily street. Sonkin was
held in $500 bail for further hearing by
Magistrate Baker, at the Sd and Dickinson
streets station. He was going 40 miles an
hour, it was testified.
Hanratty was struck by q coal truck
driven by John T. Cory, of 2076 E. Mon
mouth street. at Westmoreland street and
Frankford avenue, this morning. Curry
was released on his own recognizance by |
Wrigley.
Those injured yesterday and last night |
were: |
FRANK ADAMS. 16 years old. 1884 South 18th
T STREET fraGtured @ red skull and internal injuries;
"'i P'Op"oiS uic' IloWdru hospital,
NOTE, 81 years old 6931 Paschall |
avenue; fractured skull and six broken 1bs;
may die; University Hospital
SHLIsCHNLAN, 21 years old. o5l
North 9th street: fractured skull. Internal In
juries: will probably die Millvllle. N. j. Hos
pital.
MRS. ABRAHAM SHLISCHMAN his mother;
Internally injured Millville Hospital,
ABRAHAM SHLIsCHMAN badly cut and
bruised; Millville Hospital.
Joseph FRIEND. 90 years old. 1913 East Firth
street; broken leg and possible fracture OF the
skull; Episcopal Hospital
THOMAS TAFT. "a years old e40o Woodland
avenue; broken ankle; University Hospital.
STEPHEN TYSON. % years old Haverford
fractured nose dislocated shoulder: Hahne.
mann Hospital.