Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-04
Accident in Fairmount Park

A Sunday afternoon crowd in Fair
mount Park saw an unusual nccidrnr
In which three men escaped with slight
injuries from what seemed 10 be certa n
death
The men were riding in sedan A.
the Girard avenue bridge on the East
River drive. One of the FROM wheel :
collapsed as the car Swprved to avoid
striking an approaching machine"
The crash Of the wheel caused the
front of the machine to take a nose
dive into tho highway, and the car
upended and turned over.
One of IN" men ran as soon "a hs
got TO his feet. \ second stayed %
help the third from under the lgurh!ro.
While he was. doing th!S park guard
approached and III" second man also
ran. leaving the th.ri who gave h.,
name as Joseph !. Currau lie "a i
he lived in Trenton
Curran was taken from tho wranlD,,
car by park guards and S"nN - the
Lankenau Hospital for treatment Of .
cut on the back Of his neck He was
then taken 10 SCdgley gna"d Rouse and
will be arraigncd on a charge Of irtoxt.
cation and suspicion Of larceny.
Park guards believe The machine va.
stolen. According to IT, numbers +,
belongs 10 James J. Ferry, Of f.
sixth street and llayerford avcnue.
Held fer Hitting Woman
The polio" Iast !ght arrested DAVID
n. KoonS. OF 400 Locust street. Sey.
eral hours after his automobile rr.
struck Mrs tHrOliu" AmcS at RiIro
and Parker avenues. konnS' car ,Ia
police say. did not stop after striking
the woman. who was taken 10 thc Me-
mortal Hospital. suffering from brrliSa,
She Is fifty eight years old and lives
at 66O7 Ridge avenue.
Late last night Jennie Tobin, Of 3O2
Mexican avenue. Germantown, received
severe injuries on the head when -ha
was struck by an automobile at FIJI
teenth and Cayuga streets. Paul r
Arrot, Of zoos Lindley avenue. driver
Of the car. surrendere-
Joseph Odendorf, Of Forty first street
and Baltimore avenue, wa, killed bv an
automobile driven, the police said, by
Arthur Sandurs, a Negro. twenty five
years old, Of Fitzwarrr and Thirteenth
streets. The accident occurred late
Saturday night and Odcnborf died carey
yesterday in the University Hospital.
He leaves wife and four children.
News of bdcndOrf's death was re-
ceived with real grief for he was n
"handyman" who had done much In
q small way in the npighborhOod He
was killed at Forty second street and
Woodland avenue, only short distance
from the place where ne had passed the
greater part of his life.
Sandurs was held without bail to
await the action of the Coroner on the
charge of homicide.
Auto Fiees After Man Is Hit
After his automobile struck Timma =
teo Tauri. Of 2Ol4 Fernon street, at
Brood and iffiin streets yesterday, a
motorist continued on his way ur
Broad street Mr. TGuri was taken to
et. Agnes Hospital, where he is suf-
fering from cuts Of the scalp and pos
sible internal injuries.
81 Omedo Marci. thirty-nine wears old
Of 1887 South Alder street, wa,
Knocked down by an automobile a
Tiftieth street and Lancaster avenue
< and was cut and bruised. The automO.
bile was driven by Edward Rise, nine
teen years old, OF S45 North Forty first
street.. who took the injured man tc
the West Philadelphia Homeopathic
4 Hospital and then surrendered to tn,
& police of the Peach and Media streets
station.