New-York tribune., 1921-09-19
HOOdOoed Auto
Goes Over Bank
Kills 3, Hurts 9
Owner, Who Closed Cafe to
Take Ill Early-Morning
Patrons on a Joy Ride,
Held for Manslaughter
Wife Also in Hospital
Hurt 2 Weeks Ago in Same
Car; Friend Drowned
During Trip in Machine

4 large touring car, owned and driven
by John Feldmau, the owner Of a. res
taurant at 9T1 Third Avenue, plunged
over the embankment on Central Ave
nue., Yonkers, yesterday, killing three
OF the twelve occupants and injuring
the rest. When held later in $4,000
bail on a charge Of manslaughter, Field
man told Coroner George Engle that
his car was hoodooed
The dead are Alfonso Tageron, twenty
six-years old, of 299 East Sixty-third
Street; Philip Tiscisi, twenty-five years
old, whose Address is given by the po-
lice only as Eighty-frst Street, near
Lexington Avenue. and Michael Sis
carlo, who Is said to have made his
home in Seventy-fourth Street.
The names of the injured as obtained
by the police are Dominic Firrata, Of
Seventy-fourth Street, who suffered
several fractured ribs; Emory Nc
Creary, of 236 East Sixtieth Street.
who sustained fractured skull and
is in serious condition in Lawrence
Hospital; Anthony Gerace, of Fifty
fifth Street and Fourteenth Avenue.
and is also In serious condition in
the same institution; Etisan Lopresti.
OF 346 East Seventy-sixth Street. who
received lacerations and contusions;
Philip Pisseno, of 241 East Sixtieth
Street, suffered several fractured ribs;
Philip Pizzi, of 346 East Seventy-sixth
Street, dislocated shoulder; Samuel
Sakal, of 238 East Sixty-third Street,
cuts and bruises; Charles H. Platte,
of 307 East Fifty-tighth Street, con-
tusions and shock, and Feldman, who
received cuts and bruises.
Invited Every One in Cafe
Feidman told the police that he was
III his restaurant early in the morning
when two of his friends walked in and
suggested that they go for q ride. He
said that there were nine other persons
in the place at the time whom he knew
only slightly. He invited them all to
go with him.
Detectives say that the restaurateur
was not sure just how the accident
happened. He said that while driving
on Central Avenue, in Yonkers, he
little to the right to permit another
car to pass. AS he did this he ex-
planned that the car lurched forward
with sudden increase of speed. Be-
fore he could turn rfe car into the
road again it had plunged over the
embankment, turning over several
times as it fell.
Occupants of passing machine saw
the accident and summoned aid. The
twelve were taken to Lawrence Hos
pital, where three Of them died Of
fractured skulls.
Wife Hurt Two Weeks Ago
In explaining his belief that the car
which he drove was hoodooed Feldman
said tina; two weeks ago his wife was
thrown out of it. and is still in the
hospital suffering from injuries re-
ceived on that occasion. A week ago, he
said, another occupant of the car met
death by drowning in the Waikiki
on which he, Feldman, was driving.
Police expressed the belief that the &C.
cident resulted when the gas accelera-
tor jammed.
Mrs. Lucy Morrison, of 322 West
117th Street, while crossing Eighth
Avenue at 117th Street yesterday with
her husband, was fatally injured when
they were struck by an automobile.
Morrison's injuries were slight, but
his wife was removed to Knickerbocker
Hospital, where she died later without
regainin. consciousness.
William Cannon, twenty-six years
old. of 159 Park Place, Brooklyn, died
in st. Mary's Hospital yesterday from
injuries received when the automobile
in which he was riding was in col
lision with milk wagon at Utica Ave-
nue. and Herkimer Street, Brooklyn.
Magdalina Endress, forty years old,
a housekceper in the employ of DR..
Adoplh Konther, of II Ridgewood Ave-
nue., Brooklyn, was knocked down and
killed last night by an automobile while
she was crossing Jamaica Avenue at
Crescent Street, Brooklyn. The woman
was returning from visit to the grave
Of relative in Eyergrcens Cemetery.