The evening world., 1888-07-16
- The bobtail car must 90"

Fight.
The bobtail car must CO."
This has been o cry of Che press of this
city almost since this jugpernant first estab-
lished itself as an institution of the pnotrop-
oils.
An unoffending woman is the latest victim
of this homicidal railway system. and after
her shocking death under tho wheels of n
Twenty third street bobtail car last Tuesday
and for q few days the daily newspapers
were filed with articles condemnatory of
this system.
The righteous anger of mort of them now
appears to have died out and they will forget
to shout Down with the bobtail car" again
until another human life has been sacrificed
under its wheels.
Not 30 The EVENING WORLD. Not content
with mere words, IL seeks 20 abate nuisances
and effect needed reforms by actions.
Columns upon columns of denunciatory
articles may be written against an abuse, but
If there is no one to take the initiative in a
prosecution of such abuse il il pretty certain
to be continued.
ont that the bobtail car must GO" fTHr
EVENING WORLD has been preparing the lever
which will make it 60.
The law has been invoked. A woman has
been killed. The killing was neither excus-
able nor justiiable homicide. Il was man
SOMEBODY Is RESPONSIBLE CR1MI-
NALLY for the killing OF Mrs. John j. Levy.
was II the car driver, James Duffyp
All of the evidence taken in the police
court on his examination absolyes him from
blame and makes the bobtail car system.
which requires Of a driver more than he can
perform without rendering a considerable
number of persons insecure in life, respon-
But neither the system nor the corporation
which uses It can be indicted for man
slaughter. The employers of James Duffy
can, however.
The men who are. in law, supposed to
stand beside the driver and to hold and
direct his hands, and who ordered him to
turn his back 70 his horse and make change
while the wheels Of his car crushed the life
out OF Mrs. Levy, CAN BE INDICTED, and
on Friday last THE EVENING WoRLp took
steps which should lead to their punishment
and the abolition of the bobtail car system.
A representative Of the paper went to the
against the officials of the Twenty.third
street Railway, charging them with man
slaughter in the. second degree, for having
caused, the death of Mrs. John j. Lew
through oulpable negligence.
A consultation with Assistant District
Attorney Lindsay, who draws all the indict-
ments found by the grand juries, secured
from him the opinion that o good case of
uhnsihugnger cOulu DC mPde out against
either the Board of Directors or some officer
of the Twenty-third Street Railway Com.
pany, but he advised that all of the facts be
brought out on the Coroner's INQUEST, so
that the work of the Grand Jury may be
facilitated.
Accordingly. Coroner MESSENGER, who will
hold the inquest on Thursday morning next,
was visited by an EVENING WORLD represent
tatlye and was requested to extend his in
quiry beyond the question as to the guilt or
innocence of the driver Duffy.
The Coroner readily saw that The EVENING
WORLDS plan OF campaign against the bop
tail car system Is the only one that is liable TO
be successful and he Immediately gave orders
that will result in the most searching inquiry
and will, without doubt. fix the criminal ia-
bility for Mrs. Leyy's death upon some one.
Death after death has resulted from the use
Of this system, and the companies which use
It have frequently been mnlcted In large
damages In civil actions for using II, but II rs
so profitable that they can much better afford
to pay large judgments obtained by admins
traitors of their victims than to hire con-
ductors, whose employment would make
their system safe, and they keep right on in
their invasion OF the constitutional rights of
the people.
Judgments in civil actions have not had
o salutary effect, The EVENING WORLD bro
poses to try what virtue there is in a crimi-
nal prosecution, and II 1t 10 successful and a
few rich directors of these juggernaut lines
md themselves arraigned at the bar as homi-
cldes there may be some hope that the rights
Of the people will no longer be invaded by
the bobtail car