New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-28
Five Dead in Auto
Accidents; Jurist's
Motor Kills Child
Dancing Girl Stepped Into
Judge Nack's Car;
Driver Freed

Judge Julian ". Mack. of the United
States Circuit Court, Chicago, jumped
from his automobile yesterday at Nine
tieth Street and Amsterdam Avenue,
and was the first to clasp in his arms a
little girl who had been run over by
the car. She was Margaret Manolos,
six wears old, of al West Ninetieth
Street.
With the child in his arms, Judge
Mack reentered the automobile and
directed the chauffeur to speed to
Roosevelt Hospital. He engaged spe-
cial medical attention and two nurses
for the girl. but she died. Judge Mack
went TO the West Tooth Street police
station to report the accident As II
appeared that the girl had danced from
the sidewalk directly under rear
wheel of the car, the chauffeur was not
held.
Express Kills Three
The Black Diamond Express of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad hit taXicab
at the Wheeler Point crossing in the
Newark Meadows, killing Miss Anna
Corbett, of 155 Adams Street, Newark;
Richard Scheenan and Richard Cras-
sow, Of Ga Hudson Street, Hoboken.
An unidentified woman who was
fatally injured is in st. James's Hos
rital. Newark. Frederick Blaney, Ru-
dolph Fischer and George Carr, who
also were hurled from the taxicab,
were taken to the hospital, suffering
from abrasions and bruises.
The taxicab, which was owned by
the Essex Automobile Renting Com
pany, of Newark, was sent TO a house
on Wheeler Point in response to a
call. Blaney was the driver. He
picked up the other occupants of the
car at the house, and was on his
way back when hit by the train.
The automobile, with the bodies of
the Corbett woman and Scheenan. was
carried for a thousand yards on the
cow-catcher of the engine before the
train could be brought to a stop.
1t is believed that the dying woman
may be Miss Rose Brennan. Fischer
and Grassow were employed on the
steamer Mandalay.
Auto Kills Pedestrian
Dusham Kurla, of 2472 Eighth Ave
nue.. was instantly killed and his COM
-DAlllOIl, MdlOIOu AIuIdJGNlCI, WAS tcIl-
ously injured when they stepped before
an automobile driven by Joseph Won
Grimm at 126th Street and Eighth Ave
nue. last night. Won Grimm, who lives
at 227 East Sixty-eighth Street, said
that he did not know there had been
an accident until his machine came TO
a stop over the bodies of the two men.
After running over Hilda Stinlieb,
,IJ &c Tb,rl
at Third Avenue and Forty-third
Street, James Farley, taxicab driver,
tried to escape, it was alleged. A pa
trolman gave chase in another car and
arrested him. He said that he had
license to drive. The girls collarbone
was fractured and her right shoulder
dislocated.
An automobile containing five per
sons upset at Southern Boulevard and
1s3d Street, The Bronx, pinning Or.
Zachary Sagsl and his wife, of 92i
Prospect Avenue, beneath ". They re
ceived severe cuts and bruises. The
others jumped and escaped injury.
Woman Run Down
Trying 10 avoid children playing at
Keap and South First Streets, Brook
lyn. Arthur Smith, of 264 Cherry
Street. ran over Mrs. Sarah Schwartz,
of 1l3 Hvemeyer Street. She was
taken to Williamsburg Hospital, suffer
ing from shock and bruises.
John Tenney. Of Plainfield, n. j.,
drove his automobile into the iron
fence around Gramercy Park on Sat
urday night, precipitating himself into
a fiowerbed and breaking his nose. He
was ..rrested on charge of reckless
driving.