The sun., 1919-08-18
YOUTH DEAD, GIRLS
HURT IN CAR CRASH
Early Morning Trip to Coney
Ends When Motor Hits
Telegraph Pole.
SEA GATE CHILD KILLED
Four Persons Injured in Brook
lyn-0ther Accidents
Of Sunday.

motor car containing four young
men and two girls, driven by keevy
Hrschfleld, 90, son of Morris Hirsch-
field, n wealthy shoe manufacturer. of
1858 Fiftieth street, Brooklyn. crashed
into a telegraph pole at sharp turn
at st. Adams. L. l., early yesterday
morning. Morris Hirschfeld. cousin OF
the driver, who was riding on the run
ming board, was instantly killed. One
OF the girls received severe spinal injur-
les. and the left eye of Samuel Levin
ton, 20, OF ais Fifteenth avenue, Brook
Ign. was gouged out by splinter of
wood.
The car was returning from a ride, ac-
cording to the police, which began late
Saturday night at Coney Island and
moved to Long Island. The police of
Jamaica. three miles away. reached the
scene OF the accident shortly after 3
A. NJ They found the car almost BIZ
sected by the collision with the telegraph
pole. One Of the victims, Arthur A.
Damn, 21, of 5223 Twelfth avenue,
Brooklyn, had summoned aid.
Keevy Hirschheld escaped with COM
paratively slight injuries. His finger
was cut by glass and he had received
some bodily bruises. The police sum-
moned an ambulance and after Hirsch-
field had been attended placed him un-
for a hearing to-day.
Two Injured Girls.
The girls injured we're Anna Keens,
IS, Of 1873 West Fifth street, Coney
Island, who was badly cut about the
body and received injuries to the spine,
and Elizabeth Bedford, 20, Of 81 TIT
fanny place. Irvington, n. j., who had
severe cuts about the face and body.
IoAh riw1a 60 ta1 q
as it collided. Dann's left leg was cut
deeply, and Levinton, aside from the loss
OF his eye, was cut about the body.
Levinton and the Keens girl were taken
to st. Mary's Hospital.
The police learned that Keevy Hirsch-
field had taken the car out with his
fathers permission for a short ride. "
After meeting the girls they had ride
in Long Island, and were returning to
Brooklyn when the accident occurred.
The police say the car was going at
a high rate of speed as 1t hit the curve
at Farmers avenue. The machine
skidded and struck with full force
against the pole. cracking II through.
Morris Hirschficld, Keevy's father.
said in Jamaica police court that he was
a relative of Magistrate Alexander
Geismar Of Brooklyn, and was given an
opportunity to talk with the Magistrate
by telephone.
-Four Hurt I'm Brooklyn.
Four persons were injured in col
lision last night between Tompkins
avenue and Bergen street surface car
at Bergen street and Kingston avenue.
Brooklyn. The front vestibules of both
cars were demolished Theodore Schieffer.
motorman OF the Tompkins avenue car.
received a fractured wrist and bodily
injuries and was taken to st. Johns
Hospital. OF the injured passengers,
Harold Aaronstock. 9. 81 Tompkins ave-
nue. was taken to the hospital. The
others were able to go home after being
attended. The accident was due, it was
said, to a mistaken signal No arrests
were made.
While crossing Mermaid avenue at
Coney Island. Samuel Margolies, 5, was
run down and killed by an automobile
driven by Nathan Rose. an accountant.
living at Sea Gate. Rose reported to the
police and was held on a technical
charge OF homicide. The parents of the
dead boy are living in West Thirty
eighth street, Coney Island, for the sum
mer.
Mrs. Edward ]. McShane. 81. of Bos-
ton. motoring with her husband and a
party of friends. was killed when the
machine struck traffic post at Ledge
wood. five miles from Dover! y. J. The