MEIROSE KILLED BY TROLLEY CAR
Milltown Man Meets Death When Struck by Car Near Parson’s Lane—Motorman Charged With Manslaughter—Was Lying on Track.
John Meirose, Jr., thirty years old, of Milltown, was instantly killed at 7:30 o’clock last evening by a Newark-bound car on the Trenton Fast Line when he was struck at Parson’s Lane, Milltown. A charge of manslaughter has been preferred against Henry Rudolph of 522 Main Street, Milltown, the motorman.
Meirose had told friends he was going to New Brunswick and had attempted to catch the car ahead of the one operated by Rudolph, going to the stop near the Red Lion Tavern for that purpose, but had just missed it. He then started back toward his home, which is at Gilliland’s Switch, Milltown.
According to the story told by Rudolph, when he reached a point about 1,000 feet from Parson’s Lane, Milltown, he saw the body of a man lying across the rails, his head pillowed on his right arm resting on one rail, and his feet hanging over the other.
Rudolph declared that he dropped his bumper at once, but the car was going so fast that he could not stop. The bumper hit the man’s body and threw it off the rails. As soon as the car could be stopped, Rudolph and his conductor, M. W. Kercado of 22 Albany Street, this city, ran back and picked the man up, but he was already dead, apparently having been killed instantly.
It is not known whether Meirose fainted and fell across the rails or whether he was attacked by thugs or others and knocked senseless, but the authorities believe that he fainted while walking home along the tracks. Coroner William F. Harding made a thorough investigation of the case.
A warrant was sworn out before Justice of the Peace Charles W. Bedam this morning for Rudolph’s arrest on a charge of manslaughter, and he was held in $3,000 bail by County Judge Peter F. Daly. Bail was furnished by the trolley company.
Meirose, who was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Meirose, Sr., of Gilliland’s Switch, Milltown, was unmarried. He was an ex-service man, having served with the American troops in France during the war with Germany.
He had been at the Red Lion Tavern earlier in the evening, and after leaving there and missing his car, he was seen walking up and down for a time, as though waiting for another one, and then he started walking down the track. No more was seen of him after that until his body was observed by Rudolph lying across the rails.
NEW SCHOOL HEAD AT MILLTOWN HAS FINE EXPERIENCE
PROF. HARRY MENSCH
MILLTOWN, Aug. 21—The accompanying picture is that of Prof. Harry R. Mensch, the newly-elected supervisor of the public school here. With the new addition of four rooms, just completed, there will be sufficient accommodations for a largely increased enrollment and this will eliminate part-day sessions such as were necessary last year.
Mr. Mensch was elected by the Board of Education from a large field of applicants and succeeds S. F. Weston, resigned.
He comes to this place with seventeen years of experience, having started his career as principal of the grammar school at Forty Fort, Pa., where he remained three years. For the following three years, he was supervisor of the grade and township high school at Mountain Top, Pa., and then accepted the position as supervisor of the Sussex school at Sussex, N. J., which included grades and high school, with an enrollment of 450. He served there for eleven years with an exceedingly fine record and comes to this place with the highest of references and recommendations.
He is a high school and normal school graduate, also a graduate of the school of administration of Harvard University.
During his administration at Sussex, he added two courses, English and commercial, also three departments, music, drawing, and manual training, having under him an excellent corps of teachers.
The teaching staff, together with the Board of Education and the community at large, was very reluctant to have him leave. For two years he was Sussex County club leader of the boys’ and girls’ extension work, connected with the State College, and played a very active part in church and civic affairs, being allied in an official capacity with the Methodist Church and community movements.
