Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-11
ESCORT AbANDONS
GIRL HURT IN AUTO
Police Seek Man Who Drove
Machine Into Taxicab, Kill
ing Passenger
MANY OTHER ACCIDENTS

When Miss Tillie O'Neill. seventeen
years old. of 4814 Parrish street. was
seriously injured in an automobile COL
lision at Thirty third street and Girard
avenue early this morning, her escort,
who was driving the car in which she
was riding. jumped from the machine
and ran away without giving the girl
assistance.
In the collision. man said TO be
August Shafer, 1871 Wynncwcod road,
occupant Of q taIicab, was instantly
killed.
Miss O'Neill was placed in a passing
automobile and taken TO the Lankenau
Hospital, where physicians say she is in
a serious condition with internal in
juries and severe bruises on the face
and body. Police are searching for her
companion, who fed after the crash.
The taSicab. in which Shaffer was the
only passenger, was overturned In the
collision.
In two other accidents yesterday mo-
florists who had run down and injured
fering aid to their victims.
Child's Skull Fractured
Seven -year.old Eleanor Hughes. Of
$3.50 North Mole street. was seriously
injured when struck ut Sixteenth and
Wingohocking streets. She was taken
10 st. Luke's Hospital, where 1t Is be-
lieved her skull Is fractured. The
driver of the automobile. after he had
knocked down the child, put on more
speed and escaped
Harry Yeagcr. 1886 Reed street, and
Charles Hessler. 424l Pnrkside avenue.
were seriously hurt when their auto
mobile was hurled against the curb by
a speeding roadster at Broad and Stiles
streets. The driver of the roadster
failed to stop and after increasing his
speed disappeared around corner. The
injured men were taken TO the Chill
dren's Homeopathic Hospital.
A woman was fatally hurt in an
accident neaer Hammonton yesterday
afternoon.
The woman. Mrs. Emichetti Gam.
bino. fifty years old, 5724 Chestnut
street, died in the University Hospital
after an ambulance driver Of the hos
pital, Sampson Goodkin, had raced
thirty miles over the White Horse Pike
from Hammonton, y. j.. with the in
Jured woman as q passenger.
Mrs. Gambino's skull had been frac-
tured in an accident and an operation
was declared her only chance for re-
Covery. Goodkin, by driving at fifty
mile hour rate, reached the HOSPITAL
with his charge alive, but death came
just before midnight.
Yesterday morning Or. B. Meredith
McIn ire. Of 4S33 Baltimore avenue.
tNnls Mrs. Gomhipn ,yhn bnu hpap
der his professional care several months.
for an automobile ride believing 1t
would benefit her health AS the ply
sician was driving down the White
Horse Pike near Waterford he saw two
trucks blocking the center Of the road
way. He turned out to pass the
trucks and as he did 80 an automobile
belonging to Mrs. W. Harding. Of New
York, ran into his machine Mrs
Gambino's skull was fractured neal
the right temple when DR.. McIntirc's
automobile was flung against one Q!
the standing trucks.
Hurried to Hospital
The injured woman, who was uncon :
scious, was taken to the office Of DR..
A. l.. Esposito, in Hammonton, and
there the physician decided that death
was only matter of n few hours unless
an operation could be performed
. quickly. 1T. Mclntlre tclennOne0 "a
the University Hospital and asked that
Dr. Charles II. Frazier operate upon
the patient upon her arrival.
Before DIR. Mclntire had finished his
conversation Goodkin and Or. Kim
brough, an inferno of the hospital were
in the ambulance racing to Hnmmon
ton. Mrs. Galnbino was placed in th
ambulance and the race to the hospita
Y started.
James Davey, Hillside avenue, Jer.
kintown, is in the Abingdon Menoria
Hospital victim OF conclusion Of ia.
brain, having been struck by an auto
mobile shortly after midnight yesterday
The car. the licenses Of which hi,
been issued to Meyer Bayuk, Il Phila
delphia business man, was driven b,
Mr.. Bayuk's son and was nearing th.
Bayuk home on York road when i
skidded and strnch Davey. Bayuk sur
rendered to the police.
Jacob BouwolluIn, of lbs Tac0n,
ro9d this city, was pini0n"d beneati
his motorcar, which skiddcd and over
turned on n snowy roadway nrnr Abing
4 ton yesterday, but escaped with cuts
\ Tff car was wrecked.
Il Nillard Hess!er, 2l07 South Seven
4 tesmth street. was held under $1,000 b,i
II ior further hearing yesterday morn
"A ing by Magistrate Scullin ou the charg
\. ofldriving his auto while iutoxicated
IN Inl his car at the time was his wife
y Anpa. At Marshall street and Grar,
4, ayfnue Hessler struck the car of Loui
Singer, OF 1915 South Sixth street
which also contained Joscbh Sirota, 80
North Fourth street. Both Sirota an
I, Hesslers wife were thrown 10 tn
Il. street, receiving minor injuries. fu
which they were treated in the Chill