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From: Margaret Ransom <>
Subject: Brooklyn Standard Union,June 24,1929-Auto accidents
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 22:44:55 -0500


Brooklyn Standard Union
June 24, 1929

News Article, Automobile Accidents

2 WOMEN DIE AS CARS CRASH; DRIVERS HELD

Brooklyn Girl is Killed When Passing Auto Upsets Machine

Two women, one of them from Brooklyn, were killed. Two are said to be
critically injured, and several others suffered lesser injuries in two
automobile accidents on Long Island yesterday, for which two men face homicide
charges today.
Miss Gertrude TILLMAN, 18, of 463 Hinsdale street, was killed instantly
when the car in which she was riding sidewiped another car and turned over on
Sunrise Highway near New Bridge road.
Miss Doris BELFER, 17 of 652 Georgia avenue, who was also caught beneath
the overturned car, is in a critical condition today at the Nassau Hospital at
Mineola. Harry GROSSMAN, 21, of 398 Junius street, is in the same hospital
with serious cuts and bruises and Abraham LEVIN, of 91 Williams street, is
also being treated here for three broken ribs.
GROSSMAN is under arrest on a technical charge of homicide.

FATALLY INJURED

Mrs. Martha ENGSTROM, 38 of 122-20 115th avenue, Richmond Hill, was fatally
injured and died before she could be given medical aid when the car driven by
Joseph CASEY, 21, of 57 Russell street, crashed into the car in which she was
riding with her husband.
Helen ENGSTROM, 11, daughter of the dead woman, sustained a broken leg and
a probably [sic] fractured skull. She is reported to be in a critical
condition at the Rockaway Beach Hospital. The accident occurred on Cross Bay
road near Raunt.
According to those who saw the crash in which Miss TILLMAN was killed,
GROSSMAN was driving his car at a high rate of speed when he sidewiped the car
driven by John G. BALLTON and overturned. BALLTON was uninjured and his car
was only slightly damaged.
The accident in which Mrs. ENGSTROM was killed was the sequel of a road
house meeting between CASEY, John CRAIG of 182 Driggs avenue; two girls, whose
names the police withheld, and Paul SANTANGELO, 24, of 164 Driggs avenue.

OFFERED THEM RIDE

SANTANGELO, according to detectives, offered to drive the four out to the
bungalow where they were staying at Broad Channel. They accepted the offer and
SANTANGELO drove them part of the way. Then CASEY objected to SANTANGELO’S
driving and took the wheel himself.
Left without the car to look after, the detectives said, SANTANGELO tried
to force his attentions upon one of the girls and she slapped him. During the
quarrel which resulted, CASEY let go the wheel, according to the report, to
strike SANTANGELO and the car crashed into the car driven by ENGSTROM.
ENGSTROM’S car then crashed into a taxicab.
The five in SANTANGELO’S car continued on to the bungalow where they were
arrested.
Later CASEY was held on a technical charge of homicide and SANTANGELO held
on the charge of being partly responsible for Mrs. ENGSTROM’S death. The girls
were allowed to go home.

Transcribed for the Brooklyn Info pages, http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/
by Margaret Ransom



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