New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-04
Man and Wife
Killed as Auto
Dodges Crash
Glendale Resident Swerves
to Side of Road to Avoid
Another Car, When His
Machine Turns Over I vice
Falls Dead at Wheel
Visitor Here Stricken in
Fifth Avenue, His Auto
Striking Sightseeing Bus

passenger touring car, oc-
cupied by five persons, was rounding
the East Lake curve on the Montauk
highway about mile east of Patchogue,
L.. L., at 7:45 o'clock last night, when
John Grayss, of Glendale, driving the
machine, swerved to the side of the
road to avoid collision with a smaller
car racing toward them from an op-
posite direction. The big automobile
shot from the sixteen-foot concrete
highway to the slushy, rain soaked
soil at the side of the road, leaped
into the air and turned over twice,
pinning four of its five occupants be-
meath it.
Two of those pinned beneath the car
were killed outright. They were
Joseph Muller, thirty-six years old, Of
103 Railroad Avenue, Patchogue, and
his wife, Rose. thirty-two. Mrs. Mary
Vanderlinn, wife of Edward Wander
linn, of 1914 Center Street, Brooklyn,
and Joseph Rollings jr., twenty-four,
of 1903 Railroad Avenue, also were
caught under the car and were serious
1y injured. They were removed to
DR.. Unger's Hospital, Patchogue.
Victims Killed Outright
Grayss was hurled ten feet when the
car struck the slippery ground and
rendered unconscious. He suffered nu-
merous decorations, but was not taken
to the hospital. Mr.. and Mrs. Muller,
it was said, were killed instantly.
The car that Grayss lodged sped
around the curve without stopping.
The police are of the opinion that the
driver was not aware that the machine
he had passed had turned over.
The Grayss car was completely de-
molished. The party had left the
Muller home for drive to Bellport,
l.. I. Mr.. Muller was connected with
the Bakers Association of Brooklyn.
Drops Dead at Steering Wheel
Frank C. Newcomb, New England
manager for Prentice Hall, Inc, 70
Fifth Avenue, in New York, attending
convention Of firm employees fell
dead over the steering wheel of his
automobile at 7 o'clock last night at
Fifth Avenue and Twenty-third Street
His machine crashed into the rear of
a sightseeing bus and came to halt.
Neither machine was damaged, and
none of the bus passengers was in
jured. Several pedestrians told the po-
lice that Newcomb's car was moving
directly behind the bus, when he was
seen suddenly to fall over the steering
wheel, his arms dro--ing to his side
The crash between his car and the bus
followed an instant later. A surgeon
from New York Hospital said that New
comb died before the crash, and that
his death was due to cerebral
hemorrhage. Newcomb lived at 80 Oak
Street, Reading, Mass, and was forty.
five years old. He and his wife had
been staying at the Hotel McAlpin
and he had planned to remain in New
York over Monday as the guest of G. S
Folger, of the Prentice-Hall Company
An unidentified boy about nine years
old was fatally injured last night by
being knocked down and run over by
an automobile on Surf Avenue, Coney
Island. He died shortly after being
taken to the Coney Island Hospital
The boy ran directly in front of the
machine, driven by John Biebel, of 69
Third Avenue, Manhattan.
Four persons were injured last night
when an automobile driven by William
Pufaul, thirty-three years old, of SIS
East 18TH Street, overturned at Crane
Concourse and Kingsbridge Avenue, the
Bronx. They were Pufaul, who was
removed in an unconscious condition to
a hospital; Detective James Finn. for