The record-union., 1893-02-22
CARMEN EIONERAFED.
They Were Not to Blame for frankie
Azevedo's Death.
So Says the Coroner's Jury-The Child
Had Had Many Narrow Escapes
From Death.

At the inquest last night on the body Of
frankie Azevedo, the child who was run
/ over and killed on Sunday evening by an
electric car on Third street, Mrs. Hag-
gerty, the first witness called, stated that
she was going up Third street when she
saw the child running toward the track
IN front OF the approaching car. She did
not know the child. 1t was about !
o'clock when it happened and there We're
some other children there she thought
the little brother was with it. She was
excited, but knew it was struck at the
crossing and dragged some distance by
the car. She did not notice the car until
it was almostEn the child.
MANUEL AZEVEDo, THE CHILD's FATHER,
Testified: 81 live at 1925 Third street.
The child's name was Frank Azevedo.
was home at o'clock and my wife was
there until >. 1 have eight children, the
Oldest, about Is, is girl and usually at
tends to the children and the house.
first knew the child was run over by the
car when they backed up to get off Of the
child. 1t was about half-past q. | was
III the house next door and did not see
the child, but thought it was on the
porch.
''ln about two minutes 1 was told it
was killed. l don't know who brought
it in. 1t was dead then. The children
sometimes play in the street when they
run away, but | uon't let the little one in
the street. ! never saw him in the street
at nighttime-not after o'clock. He
was with the children next door. and
thought he was there. He might go over
| fn MpEwpD'S and I M
know it, My vile may go away from
home and leave the children once in a
while"
L. r. COOK
OF 730 P street stated that he was a pas
sengers on the car. He did not see the
child until the car had passed over it. 1t
did not move or speak. It was lying
with its head to the east of the rail and
partly on the track. There were a num-
Der of young children there. He had
often seen children on the street there.
The car was going toward * street and
was not going as fast as usual. The mo-
torman rang the bell before he reached
the crossing and slowed up.
Witness thought the current was off
when the child was struck; the lights
were lit. He was standing on the east
side of the platform. The car was stopped
very suddenly. He had ridden on the
cars good deal, and this one was going
slower than usual. The child was lying
forty or fifty feet from the crossing at
Third and n streets. The other children
were on the east side and playing around
| the street.
WILLIAM MERKINDoLLER,
A blacksmith, testified that about $50 he
was coming up Third street with Mrs.
! Haggerty. She shouted, "Hhat child will
be killedp' At the time the child was
running and got nearly across when the
car struck it and ran over it. He picked
it up and took it into the house, He
heard no one call it, and Mrs. Haggerty
first called his attention to it. The child
was then on the opposite side, and started
across the track.
The car went about two lengths after
striking the child. The child was running
on the crossing when he first saw it. and
the car must have carried it about car
length from the crossing. 1t was not
dark, and there were a number of chill
dren on both sides of the street. He took
the child in the house and waited three or
four minutes until the father came in. He
had noticed children playing there in the
street before. The child died in his arms
and was alive when he picked it up.
c. a. STATESMAN
Testified that he was at the corner when
| he heard a woman's scream and ran out
and saw young man pick up the child and
went to the house with him and gave it to
its father. That morning he had picked up
the child from the street, as It was about
to be run over by team. He had often
seen it playing in the street, and had said
it would be run over. The little one
seemed TO be in the street much of the
time.
| He did not think the cars ran fast and
was good judge of the speed of them.
He did not think he ever rode over five
miles an hour on the Third-street cars
and had often ridden on them.
w. B. GooDENoUGH, THE MoToRMAN
On the car, stated that he was on car No.
81 running on Third and 2 streets. He
saw children in the street and threw OFT
the current. The little one ran in front
of the car and the car passed over it. He
had hold of the brake and set it as hard
as he could. The child was in the shadow
of the electric light, so he did not see it
until it was almost in front of the car.
The car went about length after strik-
ing the child and he went back to it.
He had thrown the current off before
he saw the child. There were six or
eight children, and two or three seemed
to have crossed over. He rang the bell
at the south crossing. and was running
slow. Going toward X street the cars run
slower up the incline, and he understood
the working of the car thoroughly. He
had stopped there before to prevent run
ming over children, and thought he had
stopped for the same child on Friday
night. 1t was dark and the lights were
lit. Friday night he told woman at the
fence to keep the child Off the track, and
she said ii was not hers. The guard on
his car was as low as it could be without
striking the cobble pavement. The car
is twenty-five feet long, and he had
stopped ii in one length, as quickly as it
could have been stopped.
FRANK QUINN, TIE CONDUCTOR
OF the car, testified that he did not see the
child before it was struck, but that the
| current was off and the car slowed down.
He started to pick the child up, when the
other man took it up. Children had been
in the street before, and he had spoken to
a woman there about the child before.
asking her to keep it off the street. The
bell was rung and the current thrown off
at the first crossing. The car would run
about half a block with the current off.
but it was stopped very suddenly and
with jerk.
| JOHN HOUSTON,
| Night Superintendent of the electric road.
testified that he was on the car with Good
enough and saw the child before it was
struck by the car. 1t was running
| toward the track, and was fifteen feel
away when the car was about length
distant. He saw the car strike the child
on its right side, but did not see how it
! was thrown.
Goodenough had his brake on and was
ringing the bell. The body was seven or
ten feet back of the car when it stopped.
He did not think the car dragged the
child. The motorman was competent.
and did all that was possible to prevent
the accident. He did not feel jar when
the car passed over the child The cars
are allowed to run to their fixed speed
ten miles per hour-but this one was go-