New-York tribune., 1922-05-16
Thief i'm Auto
Runs Down Is
Children;8Hurt
? Occupants Abandon Car
and Flee Before Rush
Of Screaming Women;
Three Critically Injured
Girl, 4, Killed by Truck
Frenzied Mother Rushes to
Hospital With Body; 5
Others Injured by Motors

Fifteen boys and girls, ranging in
age from three to eight years, were
/ playing last night in Thirty y-eighth
! Street, near Second Avenue, when two
men in stolen automobile drove from
the street on to the sidewalk and
ploughed in among them.
Eight Of the children were injured
and were taken to Bellevue Hospital.
Five of them had their cuts and bruises
attended TO and were able to 60 home
Three had to stay in the hospital
They are:
Mary Lindenbaum. three years old
Of 7ol Second Avenue, who suffered q
fractured skull; Margaret Lanza
five years old, of 243 East Thirty
! eighth Street, and James Lucia, sia
/ wears old, of POS East Thirty-eighth
| SrNet. who were suffering from posi-
! BILE internal injuries.
Five Sustain Bruises
The Lindenbaum girls sisters, Rose
eight years old, and Alice, six wears
DID,, were attended for bruises and con
| tusions. Tessie LAMA, seven years old
a sister of Margaret, was bruised about
the body.
OF the two men, according to wit
nesses, one was evidently a novice and
the other seemed to be instructing him.
The screams and cries Of the children
brought their mothers, gesticulating
and noisily incoherent, to the group of
wrlthing little bodies on the pavement.
4 crowd gathered from all directions
The men in the automobile. who had
their victims, became frightened and
abandoned the car, one going west on
Thirty eighth Street and the other
north on Second Avenue.
Early this morning Francis p. San
some, a real estate dealer of $50 East
Thirty-fourth Street. appeared before
the police and said in Identifying the
automobile as his, that it had been
stolen from in front of his Office earlier
in the evening.
Josephine Zepinesky, four years old,
Of East Ninety-ninth Street, was
killed by truck yesterday afternoon
while playing in the street.
The truck belongs to the Cardo Drug
Bronx, and was driven by Joseph Nc
Keon. of s13 Elton Avenue, the Bronx
He said the little girl was playing on
the sidewalk and that she suddenly ran
out in front Of the truck.
Mckeon picked up the child, intend
ing to hurry with her to the hospital
but before he could move, Mrs. Sadie
Zepinesk the child's mother. rushed
screaming through the crowd. snatched
the child from his arms and ran to
Mount Sinai Hospital. When she got
there the child was dead.
Runs Down Three on Sidewalk
Three men and woman were pain
fully injured yesterday afternoon when
the driver of an automobile owned by
Samuel Neadle, of 1S49 Myrtle Ave
nue., Brooklyn, swerved in vain effort
to avoid hitting Sarah Itzokwitz. thir-
ty-one years old, Of 1853 East Hous-
ton Street, and ran up on the crowded
sidewalk.
The injured were: Sarah Itzokwitz,
Joseph Schon, forty-sX years old, Of
l73 Henry Street; Vincent Fera, twen-
ty-two years old, of 129 East 1osth
Street, and George OBrien, twenty
three years old, Of 873 Elton Avenue,
the Bronx. All were able to go home
after being treated by physician.
Samuel Untermyer's automobile,
driven by John French, of Graystone,
Yonkers, skidded yesterday afternoon
at Park Avenue and Thirty fourth
Street and struck Harry Lewis, sixty
eight years old. Of 130 West Forty
sixth Street. Lewis has a wooden leg
He declined medical aid, and went on
his way. Mr.. Untermyer was not in
the automobile.