Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-12
|1VE KILLED, 5 HURT
IN AUTO ACCIDENTS
j, KembIe Yarrow, 2o22 Wal
mt Street, Held in Bail After
H Killing Atoo, N. j., Man
slRL Is TN J U R E D

nrs man was killed and five persons
.rred in automobile accidents in ter
.torv surrounding Philadelphia ycstcr-
| doy.
George Jones. n Negro. of Atco. was
= bsdly injured when his garbage was
Lmolsbed BY an automobile driven on
". White Horse pike by W. Kemblc
yy',-ow of 2O22 Walnut street. this
n, mat he died in Cooper Hospital.
~ skull vas fractured. His horse was
ilIled and the carriage wrecked:
Surrendering to Prosecutor Wolvcr-
Nan and County Detective Doran. of
Camden, Mr.. Yarrow said there was
u light on the carriage. He furnished
1000 bail and was released. He was
y his way to Atlantic City. Jones
Saves a widow and six small children.
0yerturning and nearly wrecking his
.utomobilc to prevent the killing Of
Eward Engle, of s26 Fast Mercer
,trset this city, Tony Zozone, of Tenth
Srtet and Susquehanna avenue, escaped
,,iury but Engle's right leg was broken
.ud Miss Jane Hutchinson, Of 613
North Sixteenth street. was cut and
Suised. The accident occurred near
Magnolia. n. j.
Engle with two young men was walk
,ns along the pike. Zozone md Miss
Hutchinson were returning in the auto
mobile from Hammonton. The COM
c,nions Of Engle jumped to "ne side,
hui Engle leaped to the other side.
yozone swerved the car. but it struck
Engle and then crashed into pole
mapping the pole in half and the car
overturned. An autoist took Engle and
Mlu Hutchinson to the Homeopathic
HOSPITAL. Camden. Zozone was re-
leased by Prosecutor Straw on his own
rcognlzance.
Injured Boy Abandoned
Throwing into the street the eleven
year.od victim of their careless driv-
ing, after carrying him little more than
SQUARE from the scene of the accident
saturday night, two men, whose
Identity is unknown, sped away. with
injunctions to the boy to walk to the
hospital on foot. Dripping with blood
ffon deep woun i'd his head, the boy
finally arrived at the hospital and col
hpsed at the door. He is Joseph 10th,
non Of Michael 10th, forty years old,
Q gardener at the Jewish Hospital.
Father and son were driving a team.
| When they came to Sixth street and
Tabor road an automobile coming down
Sixth street crashed into their team.
eraturning it and throwing father and
son to the ground. Promising to take
| the boy to the Jewish Hospital, the two
men placed him in their machine and
then sped up the street.
When taxicab driver lost control
Of bis machine at Forty first street and
Girard avenue yesterday. a sexton of a
nearby church was injured and two
| automobiles were damaged before the
taIicab crashed into a pole.
The injured man is Martin V. Fich-
ter, 6fty.six years old. of 5546 Wya-
| lusing avenue, and the taxicab driver
was Edward Devenney, thirty four
years old, of 1926 Pearl street. FIGHTER
Is in the West Philadelphia Homeo-
pithic Hospital. -
Dcvenney was arrested on charges
Of driving an automobile while intoxi.
eated, reckless driving and assault and
battery by automobile.
Arrested as Drunken Driver
| Within Morlls' Negro, fllleentn
street near Dickinson. was arrested last
night by police Of the Twentieth and
Buttonwood streets station, charged
with driving an automobile while in
| toSicated.
Norris ran into an automobile owned
BY Francis y. Hartman, Pupiar street
near Twenty fifth, in front of Hart
mans home
An explosion Of gasoline as the tank
OF motortruck was being filled at a
station at Germantown and Girard ave-
nue., last night, resulted in Harry Fred
ericks, the driver, being badly burned
On the face and hands.
r. He was taken to the Children's Home
opathic Hospital. The truck, which
was making its regular rim frem Phila.