Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-20
1KILLED, 8 HURT
N MOTOR M|SHAPS
Salesman May Die as Result Of
Auto crash-Wife and
t.. Child Injured
DRIVERS ARE ARRESTED

! IN, person was killed. second in +.
/ hred perhaps fatally and eight more
we're hurt in. motor accidents yester
day and last night. --....
william Helm, thirty five years old
x.s fatally injured when his motor
/ crcle overturned last night rounding O
curve near iBallietsyille. Pa. He was
.n,loyed by. Philadelphia contracting
Ann which is working on the state
h;shway above Schwenksville.
| william n. Shrader, n salesman for
The National Chemical Co.. of Marcus
Hook. is expected to die ana lis wife,
JIelen, Ia in q serious conuition as the
result OF an automobile accident on the
Ppnsalein pike Shrsder. his wife and
| their FIVE year -old son, John, were mo
toring from their home in, Wappingers
! Falls, N. Y, when tire Blew out and
the machine went over a Twelve foot
! embankment at the point who-e the
| Bensalem pike turns into Hol.nesburg
! SbraAer suffered fracture of the skull
| and internal injuries. He ana hisAwife
| and oaby were taken to t,re Frankford
4 motorcycle with side car attach .
! ntnt and an automobile were in col =
! lision last night at Fifth and the North
! east boulevard and one man was hurt.
The motorcycle was driven by Luigi
yitali. twenty six years old, of 1000
THOMPSON street He had as his pns :
sengcr Dominica Pichinelli, thirty three
Years old. of 1404 North Fiftieth street.
pichinelli is in st. Luke's Hospital
with broken shoulder blade.
The automobile was driven by John
Thompson. of 247 Wellen avenue,
Olney. Thompson and Vitali were given
a hearing before Magistrate Price today
at the Twenty second street and Hunt
ing Park avenue station and both held
In $500 bail for q further hearing
next Sunday.
Three persons we're slightly injured
when the automobile in which they
we're riding collided with motortruck
ct Sixty third street and City line late
last night.
Treated In Hospital
Mary Denero. seven years old. 6203
Germantown avenue, and Mary di Orio,
twenty four years old, 301 North Sixth
street, were treated at the West Phila-
6elphia Homeopathic Hospital for slight
laccrations and contusions OF the head
and face. Nora Conner, thirty two
years old. 231 Green street, was treat
ed by her family physician for lacera
tons Of the head and face and frac-
tured nose.
The automobile in which Miss Con =
nor was riding. and which was driven
By James j. Cummings, 227 West Cum.
berland street. was proceeding north on
Sixty third street and upon reaching
City Line. collided with a truck driven
BY Michael DiOrio, 6023 Germantown
avenue. In the autotruck with DiOrio
were the other girls who were injured.
Both drivers were arrested by the
police Of the Sixty first and Thompson
streets station, charged with reckless
driving. &,
while driving cast on Pine street ON
his way to the ferries, Bernard Judo
vitch. sixteen years, $500 Barring street,
struck tree in front of the home OF
Magistrate Joseph O'Brien. at Tenth
and Pine streets, and was arrested for
reckless driving and driving without a
license. He will be given hearing be-
fore Magistrate Harrigan today at the
Twelfth and Pine streets station.
Cars in Collision
Two cars rollided at Broad and Cum
berland streets yesterday The crash
damaged both cars and plate glass
window of store. Neither Of the driv-
ers of the cars was injured.
Andrew 8. Stevens, 52T South Broad
street, was driving his car north on
Broad when he met machine driven
BY Raymond Balgear. 1881 North Ori-
anna street. and the two cars crashed.
One Of the rear wheels of Balgcar's cor
vas taken off and Stevens smashed into
the window of the International Tire
CO. on the northeast corner of Broad
and Cumberland streets q" - 90
While riding a motorcycle on Broad
street, yesterday, Dominic Pichumeli
forty, 1408 North Fiftieth street, was
struck by an automobile, the driver of
which refused to stop and left the in
jured man lying unconscious on the
street.
A car picked up Pichumeli and took
] him to st. Luke's Hospital. He has q
broken collarbone and, possibly, a frac-
tured skull. Police are trying to trace
the driver of the car that struck him.
Henry Michaelson, fourteen years old,
2426 West Norris street, broke his leg
when he fell from his bicycle at, Twenty
fifth and Norris streets, yesterday. He
vas taken to the Women's Homeopathic