The sun., 1919-06-30
NINE PERSONS DIE
IN MOTOR CRASHES
Five of Victims Are Children
Playing in New York and
Newark Streets.
FOURTEEN ARE INJURED
Diamond Merchant, an ImpOr-
ter and q Brooklyn Girl
Among the Killed.

Nine persons I'VE OF them children.
werc killed in automobile accidents In
and near the city yesterday, and four
teen others were severely injured.
Henry Kryn, 40, a diamond merchant
of 10 East Thirty-ninth street. was
caught under n car he was driving from
the American Yacht Club near Rye and
killed. His companion. Joseph S. Leake,
an importer. whose home is In Rye. was
smothered under the weight OF the car
in marsh water into which the machine
plunged. He was dead when rescuers
arrived.
Mabel I.einstadt. rs. of 800 Nimrod
street. Brooklyn, who was riding with
girl companion and two young men
from dancing pavilion at Rockaway
Beach to her home in Brooklyn, was
killed when tho car struck bulkhead
while making turn on the boulevard
ct Eighty-sixth street, Brooklyn, and
| toppled over into the ocean. Rose At
well. 20, OF III Cooper street, her COM
panion. was taken to the Rockaway
Beach hospital with a fractured skull
| Neither of the young men was hurt.
Police Scent Accidents Cause.
The police are investigating the story
|
1929 Myrtle avenue. Brooklyn, had
struck Samuel Meltzer. 10, of Lenox
avenue. Manhattan. soon after the
homeward journey was begun. Melt
| zer's knee was hurt in an accident
and in his report to the police he de-
| scribed the car as Winkler's. He
charged that after running him down
Winkler put on speed and tried to get
away. which Is the police theory for the
accident that happened a few blocks
| further on.
The police learned that winkler and
friend, Joseph Walker, 81. of 3457
Blocker street. Brooklyn. had motored
to Rockaway Beach earlier in the day
and there met the girls. When the
young men were arrested. the police
said. they found n pair of brass
knuckles in Walkers pocket. Both
were held pending an investigation.
Three children were killed in lower
Manhattan late in the afternoon while
playing in the street. They were John
Fidnitto, ., of ia Canal street; Yetta
Vivian, 4, OF 1914 Horton street. Jersey
City. who was visiting relatives in East
Fourth street, and Fannie Lushstein. .
of 10 Seventh avenue. Two OF the
drivers were held on technical charges
Five Hurt in Newark Collision.
Five persons were injured In a col
lision between two motor cars in F'rellng
huysen avenue, Newark. They wcr,
taken to Elizabeth hospitals. Two girls
Louisa Lehman, II, OF Sayrevile. anC
Edith Grover. 15. of Perth Amboy. mem
bers OF tho party, were cut abou. tn,
head and body. No one in the large
car was hurt.
Melinda SOHO. 8. and Henry Bakula
I. both Of Newark. were killed In III
, street in front of their homes. Tn
. drivers arrested were Thomas J. Herman
IS. of Kearny, y. j., and William Nixon
&c. OF North Arlington.
Walter Hendrickson. 3. and Berth
Ploven. 7. OF Newark were run down b.
: automobiles and injured
Four persons were injured in an auto
mobile collision at Parkside avenue an
/ Parade place. Brooklyn. An automo
= bile owned by Meyer Brown of 10
e Mornngside Drive and operated by 10
= seph Sheean of Gas West Sixty-nintI
= street. crashed into an automobile drive
= by George Stein of 496 Stone avenue
= Brooklyn.
q The Brown car was overturned. an
rolling in front OF a Franklin avenu