Fleeing Auto Hits Broadway Car Conductor Injured
A touring car fleeing at about sixty miles per hour struck a Broadway street car at Fiftieth Street. Conductor Abraham Isaacs is hospitalized with a fractured hip, scalp wounds, and contusions after being knocked down while resetting switches. Edward Masterson, driver of the red touring car, was jailed after police recovered the vehicle and connected it to the incident.
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Broadway
Fiftieth Street
Abraham Isaacs
St. Ann's Avenue
Finnegan
Times Square
Edward McDonough
John L. Fisher
Riverside Drive
McDonough
Seventh Avenue
Peter Traynor
Traynor
Thirty-third Street
Pennsylvania
Thirtieth
Thirty-first
Forty-seventh Street
Roosevelt Hospital
West Forty-seventh Street
Isaacs
Harburger Seeks Auto Speed Ordinance Revisions
Coroner Harburger announced plans to present an ordinance to Aldermen reducing city speed to six miles per hour from eight and twelve miles in outlying districts. He also proposes lowering turning corner speed from four to two. Rex Beach faced overspeeding charges, held on $300 bail. Nat Wills received a reprimand after reckless driving charge.
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Harburger
West Side
Rex Beach
Krotel
Riverside Drive
Nat Wills
Broadway
Forty-fifth Street
West Side Court
Kestler Dies in Borrowed Auto Crash
In Baltimore early today Harry Kestler was killed and Frank Radford Samuel ree and William Reynolds injured when a car owned by Oscar G. Murray and driven by his chauffeur James Hild crashed into a lamp post on Charles Street Avenue. Hild was arrested fined $25 and costs and held for coroner action.
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Baltimore
Harry Kestler
Frank Radford
Samuel Ree
William Reynolds
St. Luke’s Hospital
Radford
Oscar G. Murray
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
James H. Hild
Hild
Green Spring Alley
Charles Street Avenue
Kestler
Baltimore Athletic Club
To Day
Doctor and chauffeur unhurt after auto overturns in Brooklyn
Dr John O Polak living at 287 Clinton Avenue Brooklyn and his chauffeur were pinned when their car slid on a Prospect Park West Ninth Street track and overturned. The doctor, with a sprained back, refused admission to hospital and continued rounds at Seney Hospital. A broker named Lindsley Tappin of 165 East Seventy First Street knocked down Mrs Tilly Greer of 450 East Fifty Second Street, fracturing several ribs. her injuries were serious but she is expected to recover. The crowd threatened the broker before police support arrived. The wife later bailed him out.
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John O. Polak
Clinton Avenue
Brooklyn
Seney Hospital
Prospect Park West
Ninth Street
Tilly Greer
East Fifty-second Street
Lindsley Tappin
East Seventy-first Street
Flower Theta
Beard
Chauffeur Harold Dannett Charged After High Speed Brooklyn Run
Harold Dannett of 111 Bergen Street claimed to be chauffeur for former Supreme Court Justice Van Wyck. He was arrested in Brooklyn between Hoyt and Nevins Streets for driving at a speed of sixty five miles per hour. At Bergen Street Station he offered two tires valued at about $100 as bond for his court appearance. In Astoria a 11 year old, Henry Schanfete? 11, of 114 Nassau Street, was struck by a car at Flushing Avenue and Thirteenth Street and mortally hurt. The car owned by James Churchill and driven by Moyse Leclare of West 109th Street fled the scene.
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Harold Dannett
Bergen Street
Supreme Court
Pneuatus van Wyck
Grace
Henry Schanerte
Nassau Street
Astoria
Queens
Flushing Avenue
Thirteenth Street
James Churchill
Moyse J. Leclare
West 109Th Street
Druggist Held as Slayer in Gas Asphyxiation Death
Gordon is arrested on homicide charges after Samuel Shapiro died of gas asphyxiation in his Brooklyn drug store. Autopsy by Charles Wuest found death from gas, not nitric acid as initially believed. Gordon admits turning on gas to vent air while Shapiro rested, then forgot to shut it off.
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Shapiro
Goroner
Charles Wuest
Brooklyn
Samuel Shapiro
St. Catherine’s Hospital
Williamsburg
Harry Gordon
Bushwick Avenue
Stagg Street
Gordon
Permianon
Seeoroner Kennedy
Motorcycle Cop Survives Mount Vernon Crash
Mount Vernon motorcycle officer James Reilly, famed for arresting speeders, was struck by a car while pursuing a violator on North Fourth Avenue. He was tossed twenty feet into a grocery doorway, the bike wrecked, but he escaped with bruises. The driver A V Lucas took Reilly home. This marks his fourth fall from a bike with no serious injuries.
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James Reilly
Mount Vernon
Westchester County
Reilly
Fourth Avenue
A. V. Lucas
Prospect Avenue
Mr. Lucas
Death at Hackensack as Crivino is killed by pitchg brother
Nicholas Crivino of Green Street Hackensack told his wife he planned to reconcile with Tony Crivino. Antonio Pitcherella then killed Nicholas with a revolver after entering the Pitcherella home. Pitcherella escaped.
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Tony
Nicholas
Crivino
Green Street
Hackensack
Antonio Pitcherella
Nick
Pitcherella
Pitche
Jenkins Hains Murder Trial Opens in Flushing
Jenkins Hains, noted writer and brother of Capt. Peter Hains, stands trial for first degree murder before Justice Crane in Flushing. Defense seeks to prove that one cannot be held as an accessory to a madman’s act. The case recalls a 1891 Hampton Roads killing where Hains was acquitted on self defense.
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T. Jenkins Hains
Peter ¢. Hains, Jr
Justice Crane
Flushing
L. I
Jenkins Hains
Capt. Hains
Bayside
William E. Annis
Edward Hannigan
Hampton Roads
Robley D. Evans
Hains
Capt
Peter C. Hains
Mrs Hains Plans Testimony For Husband In Murder Trial
Mrs Claudia Hains wife of Capt Peter C Hains Jr says she may testify at her husband’s arraignment for the murder of William E Annis if counsel allows and to aid him not condemn him. She travels to learn who is masquerading as her named double seen in Boston hotels and cafés.
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Annis
Capt. Hains
Jenkins Hains
Darrin
Elmer W
John F. McIntyre
New York County
Joseph Shay
Philippines
Claudia Libby
Winthrop
Mass
Fort Hamilton
Hains
William EB. Annis
Massachusetts
Boston
Jenkins
Bayside Yacht Club
Capt
New York Times
Claudia Hains
Peter C. Hains, Jr
William E. Annis
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OHRE
MOHR
FE Mohr&co
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Sixth Avenue
Victor
Victor and
Landay Brothers
New Yorker
Landay
Victor Talking Machines Distributors
America
Fifth Ave
Tiffany’s
West 34Th ST
McCreery’s
California Fig Syrup CO
Chauffeur
Churchill Auto
BY McIntyre
Saka & Company Broadway
34Th Street
James McCreery & Co
23Rd Street
McCreery Silks
Liberty Latin
the Gorham‘Co
Gorham
5Th Avenue
36Th Street
Maiden Lane
James McCreary & Co
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Daghestan
Shirvan
Brussels
Wilton
London
3Rd Street
B. Akman & CO
Fox
Wolf
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