Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-06-09
MAN IS KILLED,
YOUTH HURT, IN
TWOACC|DENTS
Albert Thurber, of Brooklyn,
Dies in Railway Hospital
Following Collision
SECOND IS DYING HERE
Has Fracture of Spine and
Conclusion of Brain
In Stern Auto
SECOND IS DYING HERE

WOODBRIDGE, June s:-One
person Is dead and another badly
injured as the result of automobile
accidents in Woodbridge township
yesterday. Albert Thurber, of %
Raymond street, Brooklyn, died in
the Railway hospital following an
accident last night, and John Taft
Dougherty, of Jenkinstown. Pa.
nineteen years old, Is dying in the
Perth Amboy City Hospital as re-
suit of an accident at 1890 o'clock
yesterday morning. Arthur H. Stern,
nineteen-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur. Stern of Green street.
who was in the car with Dougherty.
ESCAPED with an injury to his left
arm.
Dougherty, who was class mate
lof Stern's at the Bordentown Military
Academy, after leaving school OBJ
tanned a position in a New York Of
fee. AS his home was in Jenkins
town, Penn, it has been the custom
for Dougherty to often spend his
weed ends with Stern. This week
end he came to Woodbridge and he
and Stern had been to Perth Am
boy and were returning home at
1890 o'clock when the coupe in
which they were riding was struck
headon by another car driven by
Arthur Hall, superintendent OF the
American Smelling and Renning
Company of Perth Amboy. who Is
resident for the president time at the
New Packer House in Perth Amooy-
The force of the collision. which
occurred on Amboy avenue, near
Pralps Hill in the vicinity OF Perth
Anboy city line, who so great tnat
Stern's car was turned over twice
Dougherty's head was thrown
against the top of the car and steer
rods against which his head nit
caused a fracture of the Skull, ms
right ear was torn and ne sulIereo
abrasions on the right sioe OF tne
head. He was pinned under the car
and this probably resulted in the
broken spine which he also received.
Stern's left elbow was injured ana
he was also taken to the Pertn AM
bow City Hospital with Doug'nerty.
stern was discharged from the lnsti-
tuition after an X-ray had peen taken
and is now at his home here. Ut.
George w. Tyrrell who Is Attending
Dougherty said today that Dougnerty
has no chance of recovery. ms
mother and sister nave "a
their homes in Jenkinstown and are
now at the hospital.
Stern's car was completely demoi-
ished and between the time of the
accident and the towing of 1t to a
garage, it had been completeiy
stripped of whatever was of value on
It. This included the tires. Traffic
on Amboy avenue at the time was
heavy.
Hall has been released by the po-
lice under $1,000 bail to await the
outcome of Dougherty's injuries.
stern declares that the lights on
Halls car completely blinded him.
The accident which resulted In
the death of Alfred Thurber occur
red in St. George avenue, near
Woodbridge. and was caused by
collision between the car Thurber
was driving and that of George VIII
liams of Union Beach. 1t is re-
ported that the brakes on Williams
car locked and this caused the car
to swing across the road where 1t
was hit by Thurber's car. Thurber
was thrown from the car and re-
ceived a fracture of the skull which
resulted in his death at the Railway
hospital last night.