Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-02
| KILLED, 5 HURT
IN AUTO M|SHAPS
Eleven-Year-OId Boy Dies in
Hospital After Being Hit
Crossing Street
POLICE SURGEON IS VICTIM

A boy was killed and eight other
persons were injured in automobile ac-
cidents over New Years.
Two hours aftcr he was struck by an
automobile last night John Brennan,
eleven years old, 645 West Schiller
street, died in the Samaritan Hospital.
Brennan was struck by the machine
about o o'clock last night, rs he at
tempted to cross Nineteenth, street be-
berger, 20lT West Hngert street, driver
Of the car. was arrested. The machine
is owned by John G. Kimmerle. an un-
dertaker. 2127 North Broad street.
The automobile of DR.. Walter
Walker, 20G Church road. Ardmorc,
struck and seriously injured Joseph
Carlo, 800 Conway avenue, Narberth.
chauffeur for George II. Earle, Jr.. of
Grays lane. Haverford. yesterday on
Montgomery avenue, Nar5erth Carlo
* in the Bryn Mawr Hospital with a
fractured skull. broken right leg and
broken right wrist
Carlo alighted from the automobile
after driving Mrs. Earle 10 her home.
and in walking around the rear of tn"
car to cross the :tre"t stepped in front
Of the automobile driven ~ DR.. Walker
Assisted by Mrs. Earle, Dr.. Walker
placed Carlo in his machine and took
him to the hospital.
DR.. Charles T.. ErickCr. Il physician
and police surgeon at the Twentieth and
BerkS streets poiico station, was S"ri-
ously injured early yesterday in n
motor accident ut Twenty third and
Berks streets.
lie is In the Women's Homeopathic
Hospital. with fractured skull and
other injuries. from which physicians
at the institution fear he may not re-
cover.
DR.. Bricker was injured while riding
in the side car of police motorcycle,
being driven by Motorcycle Policeman
Harmon Hall. Hall also was injured
In the crash.
DR.. Bricker was being driven from
his home Mt 2739 Girard avenue to the
police station, where he had been called
to examine q motorist, arrested on a
charge Of operating his machine while
under the influence of liquor.
The machine was proceeding east on
Bprks street, when at Twenty ird
street n taxicab crossed in front of It,
Hall made every effort TO avoid Strik =
ing the machine. but was only partly
successful. The taxicab sidewiped the
side car of the motorcycle and hurried
Or. BriCkcr to the street. He fell upon
his head and was picked up unconscious
Hall also was thrown from his scat
but escaped with minor cuts.
After running into the flower bed at
Broad street and the Roosevelt Boule =
ward. an automobile, which police say
was going NJ the rate OF seventy miles
an hour, smashed an island lnmppost
/ and then turned over three times.
The driver. John Cosgrove. Jr.. 13+
/ North Thirteenth street, Newark. es-
capped injury, He was arrested By
Motorcycle Policemen Lee and Ken
nelly on the charge of reckless driving
and operating an automobile while
under the influence OF liquor.
At an early hour Yesterday mOrnini
: Elijah EmmonS. wniic driving ma
chine owned by G.. Il. MitChin, west oil
Gowen avenue. Mount Airy, collide,
with another machine owned by j. w
Turnbull. The car EmIaons was driv
ing was overturned and Mr.. and Mrs
Brown. 2005 North Bodinc street
who were passengers. sustained IN
jurieS. They were taken to Chestnu
IiiIl Hospital for treatment. Emmon
was examined by the district surgeon
who declared th0t he was intoxicated
Elnmons was placed under $1,000 ba.
for court.
W. W. Montgomery, broker, 0
Hare lane, Itadnor. with Offices in thi
city. ran down and injured II ma
with his motorcar on Montgomery ave
nue., Nillnnova, Yesterday.
The injured man. SankiC Hille2as
of NillanOvN, was crossing Montgom
cry avenue when he was Rtrucs, MI
Montgomery took Iillegas 10 Bry
Mawr Hospital, whore II was tOun
he wlE cur and bruised about the body
Phoebe Sheridan, $3.50 Market 0tree
and Bernice Batter, 1928 damon
street, along with Albert Batter, Of y
Diamond street address, in Philnde
phia. had Il miraculous escape carly tn
morning when a limousine in which thc
were riding with Scvcra! others skidd'
in Pacific avenue at Ocean NYrLu", Al
lantic City, and jumped curb tt
car struck Il riding block and overturned
The car landed wheels up on q
sidewalk with the passengers caught
the wrcckngc. Crowds leaving the Ne
Years celebrations In the cafes in tht
section cam" to the rescue and lift'
them out. Except for the three name
who We're treated for decorations al
the shock at the City Hospital, Il
others left the scene when the CROW
gathered.
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