Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-18
2 Dead and 2 Dying
in Accidents to Autos


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Is IN the Bryn Mawr Hospital with q
fractured skull and internal injuries.
j. II. Emmons. Of Merton, driver OF
n speeding automobile that crashed into
machine Watson drove from the
gateway of the Lloyd home into Bryn
Mawr avenue at o'clock this morn =
ing, ts under arrest charged with reck :
less driving and driving without q IL
cense Captain Of Police Sweeney, OF
kadnor Township. declares the car
Emmons. was driving went ahead 49,
crashing into and demolishing the au :
tOmoblle Watson was operating.
]. ii. Cummings, Jr.. was in the ma :
chine with Emnons, who will be ar
raigned before Magistrate Buckland, in
Bryn Mawr. tomorrow.
Child Hit by Auto
Catharine McDermott, eight years
old, 4O2 Kent road Cynwyd, struck BY
an automobile driven by Francis Sher.
man Cooke. son Of James Francis
Cooke, president Of the Theodore Press =
er Foundation, was rushed from Gym
wyd to the Bryn Mawr Hospital this
morning in the Cooke automobile nj the
rate Of sixty miles IN hour. A motor
cycle pntrOlman went in front Of the
car and cleared traffic.
The child was crossing the Cynwy6
bridge. md ran in front Of the automo
bile. driven by Cooke, who is eighteen
years old.
Patrolman Bentz, Of the Lower
Merton police, on his motorcycle, saw
the E, accident and helped Cooke place the
Going in front Of tho automobile.
Eentz cleared traffic along tho road
while the little girl was rushed to the
hospital, She has Il fracture Of the
left lower limb.
At hearing before Magistrate Still
wagon, mt Ardmore. Cooke was relea sed
on ms own recOgnizance to await the
outcome Of the child's injuries.
Machine Plungcs Down Bank
Tho woman, injured with two men
when the automobile in which they were
riding plunged through the railing along
Thirty third street, near Thomson,
and down the embankment, dsap.
pcared.
A policeman passing a short time
later saw tho broke railing and. look
Ing down the embankment, heard cries
for help coming from beneath the over
turned automobile.
He hailed a passing taxicab, driven
by Herman Goldstein, and with the
taxi-driver. rescued the three persons
beneath the automobile.
Ihe woman, covered with blood. ran
along the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks
at the foot Of the embankmept TO
Thirty first and Master streets and dis
1t is thought she hailed n
passing taxicab.
Inc two men injured 0re Harry Dal.
t2h, thlrty ono years old. of 321N
" Woodland avenue, and William 7.
Rodgers, twenty nine, Thirty fourth
and Chancellor streets.
Ihey were carried on stretchers along
ne railroad tracks to n patrol wagon
waiting at Thirty first and Master
streets, and taken to Lankenau Hos
'ital. Rodgers was given tirst-aid
treatment, and allowed to leave the
Institution. lie was arrested. Dali
on injuries were more serious, and
10 Is still i'll the hospital.
Woman Flees From Scene '"''
'Whcn the policeman and | lifted
hem from beneath the machine"
ioldstein said, zone of the men, who
vas tho driver. told us they had gone
'Ver the embRnkmcnt whilc trying TO
'ass another automobile. The lights !
rom the other automobile blinded the |
river, he said, and hc lost control OF !
ne car, The other machine did not /,
top TO render assistance,
, Inc woman was covered with blood |
'Ihost from head 60 feet. but she re-