New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
Driver. and Two
Friends Die as
Auto Hits Tree
Sta inf ord Restatarateur's
Motor Car Leaves Road,
Hurting Out Occupants;
z Are Seriously Injured
Tragedy Ends Revelry
Friends demonstrate When
Owner Takes Wheel; The
Steering Gear Crippled
speeial Dispatch 70 Tha rr.huns

hPecfut DtSpdteh 10 The Tribune
STANFORD, Conn, Nov. 19.--Three
men were killed and two others were
injured here early to-day when an au-
tomobile owned and driven by Rudolf
| sylvester, proprietor of restaurant
at 267 Pacific Street, jumped the road
IN making turn in Bedford Street
between Hoyt and Oak streets. The
automobile buckled in the middle and
turned over rs it crashed into a tree,
throwing three of it's occupants twenty
| feet and crushing the two others under
1 the body.
The police withheld the results of
theE inquiry to present to the coroner
tomorrow, but independent inyestiea-
| tion showed that Sylvester was in such
condition when he started TO take his
| trends home about 1 o'clock, after a
ceieoratlon in his restaurant, that a
nall dozen persons demonstrated sis he
! took the wheel From another source
1t was learned that he was warned last
week that the steering gear of his car
was in bad condition and that it might
fail to work at any moment.
| Despite these warnings, Sylvester
drove his automobile through the CEN
ter oil the city at such speed that the
|
Avenues blew his whistle and tried to
halt the car, The restaurant man an
swered with laugh and stepped on
| the gas
The speed was something terrific"
the most seriously injured of the sur
! vivors said in the hospital. 81 knew
there would be an accident and begged
Sylvester to stop"
A moment later the car jumped the
| road
Sylvester died of fractured skull
fifteen minutes after the crash. Nicolo
Gulf, of 265 Pacific Street, who shared
the, front seat with him, was crushed
under the car and killed instantly.
Albert Robustelli, of SO Spruce Street,
landed on his head when he was
| thrown out and died of broken neck
| in the hospital at 3 o'clock this morn
ing. Victor Ferrante, former clergy
man, sustained two broken hips and
Ipossible internal injuries. Only
| Michael Della, of Greenwich Avenue,
escaped with few cuts and bruises.
The three men killed were married.
! Three persons are dead, two are dy-
ing and number of others were in
metropolitan district over the week
| end.
Mrs. Mary Liddle, of SO Palisade Ave
nue., Garfield, N. j., was killed instantly,
her husband, John Liddle, was perhaps
| fatally hurt and her three children in
/ jured seriously when their automobile
struck tree on East Broadway, in Pat
erson, n. J.. All five were tossed from
| the car. The injured were taken to the
Barnert Memorial Hospital where it
was said the husband was suffering
from fractures of both legs and arms
snd internal injuries. The children
will recover. The police blame the ac-
cident on the glare of headlights into
Liddle's eyes.
Samuel Geronda. of 2 Myrtle Avenue,
Larchmont, a taxicab driver died in
! the New Rochelle Hospital from in
juries received Saturday when his ma
chine struck trolley car on Palmer
Avenue. Geronda was driving in the
| car tracks and was unable to turn out
as the car approached. His passenger,
Frank Sagnetti, Of 141 Mott Street, is
not expected to recover. Both were
| thrown from the taxicab.
The Rev IsSdore Cortesi, who five
years ago was received by the Pope,
| was killed yesterday morning at Vine
Hand, N. j., when Je,.sey Central Rail
road train struck the motor car in
which he was hurrying from mass at
Landisville to Minotola.