The New York herald., 1922-08-20
Man Escapes in Motors
Plunge in Hastings;
Daughter Near Death.
AGED MAN BADLY HURT
Brooklyn Salesman Is Killed
and Man at Wheel Held on
Homicide Charge.

An outing In Central Park provided
by the Sisters Of Mercy for fifty chill.
dren living in the crowded tenement
districts OF the lower East Side was
marred yesterday afternoon by the
death Of one Of the little girls under
the wheels OF an automobile. Jennie
Lacono, aged 5. Of "a Hamilton street.
was playing with other girls near the
West Drive of the park. opposite
Sixty-sixth street. when she started
to run across the driveway. An auto
mobile driven by Miss Christine Nc.
Nab, aged 81. OF the Women's Univer-
sity Club. 10s East FYfty-second street.
happened along at the same time and
before Miss McNab could stop the car
ono Of its front wheels had struck the
little girl. hurting her body several
feet.
Herman Grossberger, mounted po-
liceman. commandeered an automobile
and took the little girl to Roosevelt
Hospital. where it was found that she
had died of a fractured skull.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Zanes OF
West Seventy-fifth street. friends OF
Miss McNab. We're in the automobile
with her. Miss McNab said she did not
see the little girl until the car was
within a few feet Of her. A charge Of
homicide was made against her.
4 Robert Singleton, aged 5, of 246 East
Twenty-seventh street. in running
across Second avenue at Twenty-sev-
enth street yesterday afternoon stepped
in the path Of motor truck and was
killed. The police were told that the
little boy had stepped from behind an
other motor.
Simon Lindenberger, aged SIS. OF
West Nlnety-fourth street, fell in front
OF a surface car as he was walking
across Broadway at Ninety-fourth
street yesterday afternoon and the for
ward truck passed over his body. He
was removed to the Reconstruction Hos
pital in a serious condition. Traffic on
the broadway surface line was delayed
for twenty minutes while the mans
body was being dislodged.
Walter Brock. aged 5. of West
ElRnty-nlnIH street, sustained a pOSSfDIe
fracture of the skull at Broadway and
Eighty ninth street when he fell from
the back end of q taxicab on which he
had been stealing ride. He was taken
to Knickerbocker Hospital.
An automobile driven by Adrian Gras-
selly Of Hastings-on- Hudson got out OF
control yesterday and went over a sew
enty-five foot embankment. off Broad
way, just north Of the Hastings line.
Mr.. Grasselly was thrown clear the first
time the car turned over. but his daugh-
ter, Ella, aged IT. was carried to the
bottom of the embankment and pinned
under the cars wreckage. Two Hast
ings policemen and workmen from the
Billie Burke estate near by were half at
hour in releasing her body from the
wrectage. She had been Internally in-
Jured Mr.. Grasselly sustained deep
scalp wound and many bruises. Both
were removed to the Dobbs Ferry Hos.
pital where 1t was said Miss Grasselly
probably will die.
An automobile driven by Otto Olsen. a
chauffeur at the Sleepy Hollow Country
Club, skidded on the pavement in frons
of the estate of William Rockefeller o.
Tarrytown, struck wall and turne1
over. Olsen was pinned under 1t and
sustained a fractured leg and internal
injuries. Jack Clo"k, also chauffeu..
who was riding with Olsen. received
minor hurts. Both were removed to tho
Tarrytown Hospita.
Rose Schlaer. age1 A. of 10 Clinton
street, Jamaica, l.. l., suffered serious
injuries when struck by an automobile
at Myrtle street ana Dill place. Queens.