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- Buffalo NY Courier Express - 12/25/1943
Struck by auto-one a police
car driven by Inspector Jeremiah
R. Cronln-two men and a woman
were killed in Buffalo and the
Town of Tonawanda last night
They were:
Louis M. Boehner, 75, of 147
Sprenget Ave^ killed in Bailey Ave.
between Dingens and William.
George Brown, 73, of the-Mon-
roe Hotel, 490 Pearl St., killed
instantly in Grant near Lafayette.
Mrs. Lena May Sharlau, 43, of
1347 Michigan Ave., Niagara Falls,
fatally injured In the River Rd,
near Edgar Ave^ Town of Tonawanda.
Crash Victim Dies
In addition to these traffic fatalities.
Louis G. Brown, 35, of Coup-
Ion Court, Snyder, died In Emergency
Hospital of Injuries received
early yesterday morning when his
auto crashed against a railroad
abutment at Bailey and Kerns.
The deaths of Boehner and
Brown raised Buffalo's 1943 traffic
toll to 81, compared with S3
for all 1942.
Boehner was killed shortly after
6 o'clock last night as Inspector
Cronin, who was on duty at the
time, was driving north in Bailey*
in a police car assigned to him. He
waa bound home for dinner, he said,
and was passing the Cohen scrap
metal yard at 909 Bailey, when
Boehner started to cross the avenue
from east to west.
In a report to the Broadway
station, Cronin, who is a former
police commissioner, reported he
was driving 20 to 25 miles an hour
and did not see Boehner. a watch*
man at the Cohen yards. The inspector
summoned an Emergency
Hospital ambulance hut the victim
was dead by the time it arrived.
Two Autos Involved
Brown's death involved two
autoe. police of the West Delavan
Ave. station reported. Crossing
Grant St.. Brown walked against
the right rear fender of a machine
operated by Lawrence C. Near, 18,
of 84 May St., and was knocked
down. Then he was run over by
another car driven by Andrea
Spezio, 52, of 98 Rees St., investigators
reported.
Mrs. Shariau was killed about
8.30 o'clock while walking in the
River Road by a car driven by
Arthur H. White of 9S 17th St.,
Buffalo, according to Town of
T oris wan da police. Brown placed
Mrs. Shariau on the rear seat of
his auto and sped to Millard Fillmore
Hospital. A doctor pronounced
the woman dead on arrival.
Christmas Eve brought an epidemic
of auto accidents with in-
Jury to several people. One of the
most seriously hurt was Thomas
Atwood» 78. of 97 Farmer St., who
suffered a severe skull injury and
fractures of both legs when he was
•truck by an auto near his home.
The Impact buried him onto
the hood of the machine, driven
by Robert McMaon, 27, of Z4M
East St. The injured man was
taken to Millard Fillmore Hospital.
Jacob Kanlewski, 60, of 490 Amherst
St.. also was seriously hurt
when he was hit by a cay operated
by Raymond Kauffman, 122 Carl
St., in front of the General Drop
Forge Co., 1738 Elmwood Ave.
Kaniewaki was taken to General
Hospital suffering meven head injuries
and complete shock.
Soldier on Furlough Hart
Pvt. Raymond D. Cady, 398
Emsiie St., home on furlough from
Camp Adair, Ore., was taken to
Meyer Memorial Hospital yesterday
suffering a severe head injury
after the auto in which he was
riding went over a curb and hit a
tree in East Delavan near Cambridge.
Philip Blessing, 25, same
address, a passenger in Cady's car,
received lacerations on the face
and shock.
Police said Cady's car was
forced off the street by another
auto being driven on the wrong
side of West Delavan .Ave. by
Leonard Schwedt, 39. of 390 Northumberland
Ave. Schwedt was
given a summons for driving on the
wrong side.
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