The New York herald., 1922-06-20
FOUR CHILDREN DIE
IN STREET MISHAPS
Mob Threatens to Lynch Man
Whose Big Motor Truck
Kills Little Girl.
TROLLEY SLAYS A CHILD
Navy Yard Worker Loses Life
When Hit-Drunken Driver
Sent to WorkhOuse.
TROLLEY SLAYS A CHILD

Five persons, four of them young
children, were killed yesterday in street
accidents in this city and suburbs.
More than 1000 persons gathered last
night in Henry street and threatened
to lynch Reuben Katz of "a Essex street
after the heavily laden grocery truck
he was driving killed Minnie Resen-
berg. 4. of 1sS Henry street. She was
walking across the street with her
mother and brother, Jacob. Z. Jacob
had hold of her hand. He stopped to
! pick up a penny.
AS soon as the boy released her hand
the girl toddled under the truck and
was run over. The mother and other
persons screamed. and soon a crowd
blocked the street, menacing the driver.
Patrolman Fred Ruppell took the
child to a drug store and then rescued
Katz from tho crowd. The crowd
stormed the drug store. and other police
men were called on.
The girl was dead before an ambu-
lance from Gouverneur Hospital ar
rived. Katz was held on a charge of
homicide. He and the two helpers said
the child ran into the side of the truck
Killed I'm Front of His Home.
Henry Werner, 8, of $40 East Thirty
thir street, was killed in front of his
home by an automobile driven by Peter
Proenzio of Inwood. l.. I. Proenzio Is
chauffeur for Ernest Vile, a clock
manufacturer OF Seventh avenue and
Thi-ty-seventh street. and was on his
way to meet his employers daughter at
the Waldorf. He was held in $1,000
bail by Magistrate Harris in Yorkville
Court charged with homicide.
Olive Rooney. 2, was run over and
killed when she walked in front of
trolley car at Jackson and Warner ave-
nues. Jersey City. She lived at Is jack
son avenue. The conductor was ar
tested. but witnesses said he was not to
blame
Isaac Weissman, s, was killed in front
Of his home at West Nyack by truck
driven by chauffeur for Adolph Gobel,
meat dealer, of Morgan avenue and
Rock street, Brooklyn.
Frank Rotala. laborer at the New
York Navy Yard, living at 1T Trout
man street, Brooklyn, was killed at
Carlton and Flushing avenues. When
getting off trolley he was struck by
an automobile truck driven by Frank
Ketcham of IS Vanderbilt avenue
ketcham was arrested
Woman Loses Cars Control.
Losing control of her automobile, Miss
Margaret Muldoon, 10, Of 6S Chest
nut street, Jersey City. drove on
the sidewalk in Union street,
Union HILL. N. j., crashed into
the window OF department store and
knocked down four women shoppers
All received decorations which were
dressed by an ambulance surgeon and
Miss Muldoon was arrested on a charge
of reckless driving. She had tried to
avoid heavy truck and lost control of
the steering gear.
Those receiving cuts from glass and
decorations were: Mrs. Anna Mae Fer
guson, III Eighteenth street, West New
York; Mrs. r. Raphael, same address;
Miss Bella King, 61S Park street Hobo
ken; Mrs. Rose Eiercoirkle, 513 Walnut
street. West Hoboken.
Magistrate House in Traffic Court
sentenced Raimon Buisen to sixty days
in the workhouse. He was charged with
operating an automobile while intoxi-
Gated. Magistrate House said:
I'VE have had more cases of reckless
driving since prohibition than ever be-
fore