The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-08-30
Two Youths Are
Dead In Crash,
| Policeman Held
MOtOrcyclists Die After Coli
sion With Auto-Compan-
lions Condition Is Serious
PLEASANTVlLLE.F0LK
HURT in COLLISION
Sunday Accidents Take Toll of
Injured - Johann Family
Figure in Mishap With Phil
adelphia Automobile

Wilbert Penze, 10, and William
Montgomery, 81 both of Mays
Landing, died in the Atlantic City
hospital Sunday, and John Viii
liams, 81, also of Mays Landing is
in a serious condition at the
hospital as the result of motor
cycle-automobile crash on the Mays
ing-Tuckahoe road, near Lake
Maryland, early Sunday morning.
William j. Aiken, a Philadelphia
policeman, driver of the automobile
is in the Atlantic County Jail or
default of $4,000 bail to await fur
Their hearing.
The three boys were proceeding
in the motorcycle, equipped with
side car, toward Mays Landing
while Aiken was driving south on
the way to join his family in Wild
wood. No one seems to be clear on
the exact cause of the crash. Both
MACHINES were badly wrecked. but
Aiken escaped with a cut on his
4. wrist from flying glass. Thomas J
Keenan,, of Cynwyd, Pa, and John
Wigglesworth, of Belcoville, took
the victims to the hospital. The
three young men were thrown
clear of the wreckage by the force
of the impact, and another auto
mobile. the identity of which is un
known. passed over the body of one
of them as it lay in the roadway
and sped ON toward Tuckahoe.
Four Pleasantville residents
figured In another of the numerous
automobile accidents which
occurred Sunday. A total of eleven
were hurt in the crash, which hap
pened On the Tuckahoe road near
Belcoville when the car driven by
James Johann, of Pleasantville,
collided with another driven by
Franklin Johnson, %, of Philadel-
phia.
Johann, together with Gertrude
Johann. z; Mary Johann, AZ; and
Almerin Johann, II, all residents
of 226 N. First street, Pleasant.
vile, suffered bruises and cuts,
while seven of the occupants of
Johnson's car were hurt. Franklin
Pell, 3, sustained a possible frac-
ture of the skull. The others, who
were bruised and cut, were: Anna
Johnson, As; Ashur Pell, 6; Anna
Pell, %; T. Johnson, 53, all of
Philadelphia, and Katheryn Mifflin.
Ia, of Camden.
Seven of the injured were
rushed to the Atlantic City
hospital by Rev Fred J. Halloran,
of Mays Landing, who has made
fifteen ambulance" trips from his
city to Atlantic City in the past
three years. William Marsh, of
Belcoville brought the others.
other Accidents.
Paul Joffre, of Pleasantville was
the driver of an automobile which
struck and slightly injured Harry
Smith. 81, of Philadelphia, at
Pacific and New York avenues,
Atlantic City, Sunday.
Vincent Presta, 90, and Theresa
De Grossa, so, both of Atlantic
City, were hurt when the automobile
in which they were riding over
turned between Mays Landing and
Mispah.
Roy Wilson, of Philadelphia,
lost control of his car at Egg Har-
Dor after a near collision with an
other automobile. and his machine
swerved into the home of Louis
Bell, breaking hole in the front
of the house. The car was only
slightly damaged.
Three Philadelphians, Samuel
Grossman. Becky Grossman and
Bessie Finkelstein, received minor
injuries after their car collided
with another machine on the
White Horse Turnpike.
Charles Dilks, Jr.. 2, of Atlantic
City. received severe decorations
of the scalp in a collision at Ham
monitor. He was riding in the
machine driven by his father.