William Urban

William Urban, 60, of 109 Allen’s Court in Camden, was fatally injured in an automobile accident at Raymond Avenue and State Street on Sunday, May 28, 1933. He was a passenger in a car driven by James Briody when it collided with a bus. Urban died at Cooper Hospital early Monday. He was survived by his wife, Emma Bock Urban.

Two men were held in $1000 bail each for the Grand Jury on technical charges of manslaughter yesterday by Police Judge Pancoast. The charges were a result of an automobile accident Sunday at Raymond Avenue and State Street when William Urban, 60, of 109 Allen’s Court, was fatally injured.

James Briody, 31, of 4314 North Forty-third Street, driver of the car in which Urban was riding, and Fred Schmalfus, 716 Highland Avenue, driver of a bus in collision with the car, were held in $1000 bail each.

Briody admitted in police court yesterday that he was operating the car without a driver’s license and was fined $25. Briody was cut over the eye in the accident. Urban died in Cooper Hospital early Monday.

The funeral of William Urban, 60, of 109 Allen’s Court, who died Monday from injuries received Sunday in an automobile accident at Raymond Avenue and State Street, will be held at 11 a. m. tomorrow at the Schroeder funeral chapel, Broadway and Royden Street. Burial will be in New Camden Cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Emma Bock Urban.

Defendant at Pennsauken Found Guilty by Jury in 3-Year-Old Robbery

James Brody, 22, of 4341 Forty-third Street, Pennsauken Township, yesterday was sentenced to serve an indefinite term in Rahway Reformatory today in Criminal Court.

A jury found him guilty of participation in a $20 robbery three years ago. The jury deliberated for one hour and a half. The state charged that Brody, in company with Harry Schultz, 2162 Berwick Street, and William Dempsey, 2271 Mickle Street, went to the candy store of Mrs. Celia Schulman, 2902 High Street, threatened her with a pistol and took the money on Oct. 23, 1930.

Schultz and Dempsey were subsequently arrested, tried and sentenced to two years each. Brody was indicted and declared a fugitive.

In court yesterday Brody denied that he had made an attempt to evade arrest and said he had been working as a hand on a dredge in the Delaware River. He said if there was a holdup he knew nothing about it for on the day in question he was intoxicated and merely took a ride with the two convicted bandits.

“I was so drunk I don’t remember anything,” he declared. “If there was a holdup, I had nothing to do with it.”

A fatal automobile accident resulted in Brody’s arrest on the holdup charge. On the 28th of last month William Urban, 60, 109 Allen’s Court, a passenger in Brody’s car, was killed when the machine collided with a bus. During the subsequent investigation of the crash, Detective William Lehman remembered that a fugitive warrant had never been served on Brody and placed him under arrest.