New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-16
May Yohe Tilt
By Autorr1obile:
Spine Injured
Actress Crossing Street With
Husband When Struck;
Hurt Causes Postpone
ment of Concert Tour
Policemen i'm Crash
Two Women, Each Carrying
Child, Rum Down by Car;
Policeman Hurt i'm Crash

May Yohe, actress and former wife
OF Lord Francis Hope, was knocked
down and seriously injured last night
at Fifty-eighth Street and Eighth Ave
nue. while en- route to tho Circle Hotel
with Captain Jan SHUTS, her present
husband.
Miss Yohe received medical attention
ar the hotel, where it was said she had
suffered an injury to her spine. 1t was
announced later that Miss Yohe's con-
cert tour of the West, which was to
have begun on Wednesday, will be
postponed.
Two women, each with baby in her
arms, were struck by an automobile at
138th Street and Alexander Avenue,
the Bronx, while on their way to
church.
Mrs. Edna McKenna, of 375 East
18TH Street, was carrying her daugh-
ter, Margaret, seventeen months old,
and Mrs. Rose Leffert, of 442 East 142d
Street, her three-year- son, John L.
Leffert jr. All four were taken to Lin
coin Hospital. Except for the Leffert
child. who may have internal injuries,
they escaped with severe bruises
Steven C. Zorek, of 212 Huron
Street, Brooklyn, driver of the car,
was arrested. His automobile knocked
down Mrs. McKenna first and then, ap-
parently out of control, struck Mrs.
Leffert.
Two patrolmen with high service
records were hurt yesterday, one Of
them fatally, by collision of a sidecar
motorcycle they were operating with
an automobile in front of st. Patrick's
Roman Catholic Church, Taatfe Place
and Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn.
Hurled Into Excavation
Patrolman August A. Anderson, Of
| the Classon Avenue station, who lives
at 1886 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, and
John S. Herman, of Ill Bedford Ave-
nue., the men injured, were thrown into
an excavation by the crash Anderson
skull and is not expected to recover
Herman was injured internally Both
are at tho Cumberland Street Hospital.
The automobile with which the motor
cycle collided was driven by Edward
Allen, of IS Grace Court. Allen was
arrested on charge of felonious as
sault and held without bail by Magis-
trate McCloskey in the Gates Avenue
court Tor hearing tomorrow.
John j. McQuaid, forty-five years
DID, OF TIA Seeley Street, Brooklyn, was
trance to Prospect Park, Brooklyn. and
killed. The machine was driven by
William Butcher, of 982 Second Street,
brooklyn, who told the police the acct
| dent was unavoidable. He was held on
! a technical charge OF homicide.
John Stephens, twenty-eight years
old, chauffeur, living at 1858 Hoe Ave
nue., The Bronx, was held last night at
the West 152d Street station, charged
Wlth stealing an automobile after he
had run down and injured German
oung' eight years old, of 371 Edge
! comb Avenue. Patrolman Gamble
/ took the injured boy to the police sta
/ ron, where he received medical atten-
/ tlon. When Stephens was asked for
has owners Identification card he ad-
mltted' the police say, having stolen
the machine earlier in the AFTERNOON
from outside the Polo Grounds. The
car was found to be the property of
Charles Kaffrael, GO West 118th Street
Bus Hits Light Pole
A northbound Fifth Avenue bus
crashed into an electric light mast at
Seventy ninth Street and Fifth Ave
nue. last night, swapping the pole,
which fell on the bus, several roof
passengers narrowly escaping injury
! The bus driver, Thomas McCue, of Az
vest I Ity-SlXth street, told the po-
lice he swerved the bus in order to
avoid striking Mrs. Barbara hobart, of
519 East Seventy-sixth Street, who was
crossing the street with baby car.
rage conveying her two year old
daughter. The baby carriage was up
set and the infant rolled to the street
whence it was rescued uninjured by
Patrolman Byrne, of the East Sixty
seventh Street station. The patrolmau
was badly scalded by hot water from,
the bus radiator, which burst from the
impact of the light pole
Reserves were summoned from the
East Sixtyseventh Street station to
disperse the crowd that gathered.