Valentine Hasenauer

Newark, d. 16.August.1940, killed on the job by bus.

 

Bus Kills Messenger Boy
 

New York Times, August 16, 1940
 


Newark, NJ, Aug. 15 – Valentine Hasenauer, 17-year-old Western Union messenger boy, returning on a bicycle from delivering a telegram in Irvington, was killed today in front of Newark City Hall at Broad and Green Streets, by a bus.
 
The boy was within two blocks of the Western Union office at 832 Broad Street. The driver of the bus, Joseph Marczak, said he swerved  to avoid the collision but the boy lost control of his bicycle.
 
Hasenauer lived at 93 Niagara Street, Newark.