Lackawanna County PA News - Accidents
Rudolph Franz :DROWNED IN NET OF LILLIES
by Associated Press to The Patriot (08/28/1905)
Scranton
PA., August 27-- Rudolph Franz, owner of Mountain Lake, was drowned in
the lake this afternoon by becoming entangled in the stems of water
lillies, while trying to save two women who had overturned the boat in
which he was rowing them.
The women reached out to gather
lillies and the round-bottomed boat turned completely over.
Franz, who was considered the strongest swimmer in this section,
started to swim to the women, and took a short cut through the mass of
water lillies.
He became completely enmeshed and before
the two men who swam out to the rescue could land the women and return
for them, he was drowned. When his body was recovered, it was
found that his fands were firmly bound together by the lily stems.
Indiana Evening Gazette (Indiana, Pennsylvania) November 2, 1911
Six Months and Fine For Society Favorite
Behrens' Automobile Killed Student at Scranton, Pa.
Scranton, Pa., Nov. 2 - Judge Harold McClure of Snyder county sitting here sentenced Herman Behrens, manager of the Scranton Iron works, to jail for six months and fined him $100 for running down with an automobile and killing Hayden L. Evans, a young collegian, in this city last September.
Behrens holds a high reputation had never been arrested for speeding or otherwise and is prominent in society here. In passing sentence Judge McClure said:
"It gives me no end of anxiety to know what is the proper thing to be done in the pronouncing of sentence upon this man. If it had been what is known as a joy rider, if it had been a careless, reckless man the sentence of the extreme penalty of the law would have been inflicted by me and without any compunction whatever.
"It seems to me that we must teach people who are on the highway with autos that other people have the same right there and that while they may take the risk of their own lives and go over banks and be killed or maimed they have no right in taking chances of killing or maiming other people."