Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-03
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|AUTO ACCIDENTS
Men Are Pinned Beneath
Car on Bad Turn In Fair
mount Park
HURT NEAR WILLOW GROVE

Il One death and the injury Of four
kher persons. one perhaps fatally, oc-
,rred late last night as the result OF
wo motorcar accidents.
One accident. in which a man was
k,,led and another badly hurt. was at
ritv Line and Monument road. Fair
nount Park. The other happened at
Welsh road and Willow Grove pike,
ear Willow Grove.
The dead:
John r. Maloney. twenty nine years
nld 8O37 Carpenter street: received
Fractured skull and internal injuries.
George F. Sherm. Jr.. twenty nine
years old, 700 South Fifty ninth street ;
skull fractured and internal injuries.
HE was riding with Mdloney when their
car overturned. Memorial Hosnital
Mrs. Thelma Lutz, 5745 Woodland
avenue. Cuts and bruises of face and
body. Suffering from shock.
Herbert Lutz, eight years old, her son.
Cuts Of head and face.
Mrs. William Rutter, Harrisburg, Pa.
Cuts and bruises of head and face and
suffering from snock.
It Is not known how long Maloney
and Sherm were lying under the ma
chin. A passing motorist saw the car
and. finding himself unable to extri-
cate the men. went after Park Guard
John Alexander. who was standing near
the City Line bridge. Between them they
got the men out. Both were uncon-
scious when removed from beneath the
,.Ia s,, -
truck. the engine of which stalled.
Then two passing automobiles were
hailed and the men carried to the hos
pItal. Maloney died shortly before mid
night. Sherm Is in n serious condition.
The men. it Is said, left Sherm's home
late yesterday afternoon to inspect some
real estate In Germantown. 1t is not
KNOWN how the accident happened, but
Efhe curve at the point where the car
*overturned is considered very danger
n ous one.
4 The three persons hurt near Willow
Grove with three others. who escaped
unharmcd. were flung from the machine
when II was struck by heavy car owned
and driven by Herbert Gretz, who is re :
lated to members Of the firm of Rieger
4 and Gretz Brewing Co.
II The machine occupied by Mrs. Lutz.
j her son and Mrs. Rutter. was driven by
4F. c. Adams, 2117 South Cecil street
Il With them were Mrs. Walker Edmond
son and Mrs. Clara Edmondson, Of Har =
risburs. They had visited Willow
Grove and were returning at II O'Clock
when the accident occurred.
The other car. with Gretz at the
wheel, wa occupied by Albert Rieger,
Miss Marie rath. 2O2 North Fiftl,
ktreet. and Miss B. NJ. Sturm, sol West
columbia venue.
The Grrz car was driving toward
willow Grove on the Willow Grove pike
and the other machine was going east
on the Welsh road when the collision
occurred
The three injured persons were taken
| TO the Abingdon Hospital. They will
be kept there for several days, it Is said
Grets was arrested by an Abingdon
township patrolman and later released
on his own recogl1izance by Magistrate
Virgins. Both Rieger and Gretz gave
lj36 Germantown avenue as their ad =
dress, That is the address of the Rieget
end Gretz Brewin Co., where Rieger
= Employed as brewer.
While playing in the street yesterday
9nhn Conrad. seven years old. of 1925
FEistol street. was knocked down and
hadly cut about the head and on the
leg. He was taken to st. Lukes Hos :
I pital.
! Charles Martin. of 1926 North Alder
| street, driver of the car, surrendered ia
the police. He will receive a hearing
this morning.
Mrs. John B. Evans, wife Of United
States Substreasurer Evans, of this
city was injured in driving acci
dent yesterday near her summer home
at Shenket. near Pottstown. She was
on her way to attend meeting Of the
1 managers of the Pottstown Hospital
OF which she is president, when the
runaway occurred.
She was thrown from her carriage
and severely bruised. Mrs. Evans last
Wednesday was driving her automobile
when It collided with another car and
was badly damaged.