This Day in History: 1930-08-14
Mrs. Hahn reported that there was a dead man lying along the side of Franklin Turnpike. When Chief Smith investigated he found that the victim was not dead and had been taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital where his condition was listed as critical. He had been struck at about 8:00 P.M. while walking along the road by a Southfields, NY driver. When Smith interviewed George Gottschalk he said that he had not been blinded by lights from cars approaching him and that the weather was clear. He was arrested and held on $500 bail in the County Jail in Hackensack. The victim, George Portela of Orange Avenue, Suffern, had no memory of the incident. By the 26th Dr. Royal Sengstacken informed Chief Smith that Portela’s injuries would not be fatal. (Bristow)