The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-31
A CHILD BEHEADED.
Run Down by a Trolley Car
and Literally Ground
to Pieces.
MOToRMAN SUTTON ARRESTED
Held by Justice Douglass for Man.
slaughter Running at a High
Rate Of Speed.
MoToRMAN SUTTON ARRESTED

A shocking accident, which resulted in the
death of six -year-old Mary Cleary of No. 81
Myrtle avenue, Greenviile, occurred shortly
after four o'clock, yesterday afternoon, on
the Greenville line of the Consolidated
Traction Company, at Myrtle avenue. Mary
Cleary had been sent by her mother to pur-
chase some groceries at the store of Mr. L.
p. Cross No. 227 Ocean avenue, but half
block from her home, and in her eagerness
to return home as soon as possible with her
purchases ran out of the store and started to
cross the street. She did not see motor No.
228, which was coming down the avenue at
a lively rate of speed, and ran directly IN
front of it. She was knocked down and
dragged under the car, the wheels passing
over her body The car was crowded with
passengers at the time, and the motorman,
Frank Sutton, was unable to stop it in time
to prevent striking the child. The child
darted across the street SO suddenly that
nothing on earth could have saved her from
being struck. Sutton stopped the car and
the mutilated body of the unfortunate young
girl was taken from under the wheels. The
head was severed from the trunk and the
upper portion Of the body was torn into
shreds. Pieces of flesh chung to the wheels
and frame work, and were scattered all over
the track The sight was a sickening one
and will not soon be forgotten by those who
witnessed it.
THE MOTHER HEARTBROKEN.
Chief of Police Benjamin Murphy, who
was in the vicinity when the child was
struck, placed Sutton and the conductor,
James Ryan of No. $50 Wayne street, under
arrest He allowed them, however, to take
the car to the ferry, after which they were
locked up in the First Precinct stationhouse
The Fourth precinct patrol wagon was also
sent for and the bodJ was sent to her late
residence. Mrs. Cleary, upon learning of
the sad fate that had ovsrtaken her young
daughter, went into Mysteries. The horri-
bic sight of the mutilated body made her
condition worse.
The persons who saw the accident say
that the car was being driven at a high rate
of speed and that Mary walked directly in
front of the rapidly moving car. Since the
trolley has been introduced on the Green
vile line there have been many accidents,
but this is the first one by which life was
lost
HELD FOR MANsLAUGHTER.
Motorman Sutton was arraigned before
Justice Douglass at the Third District
Court, this morning. The examination was
to have taken place at the half-past seven
O'Clock session, but as none Of the witnesses
had put in an appearance by that
time the hearing was postponed until eleven
o'clock Counselor Max Rosenberg repre-
sented the Traction Company. The first
witness examined was Policeman Enright,
VINO UeStlneu CnaG ne saw bl0 DOQy Ol Tie
child under the car, and helped to place the
mangled remains in blanket
Mr.. 1. P. Cross. the grocer, testified that
he saw the car come down the avenue at an
unusually high rate of speed. "There were
two other cars in the rear. and neither was
more than twenty feet from the
other" said he. II saw the car strike
the young girl am quite sure that the
motorman did not ring the bell. II Sutton
had stopped his car when the child was
struck the other car to the rear would have
crashed into itn
Walter Cross, the eleven-year-old son of
Grocer Cross, also testified that he saw the
car strike the child and that the alarm bell
was not rung.
Michael Cleary, the father Of the child,
was present and seemed heart-broken over
the sad affair He said he say crowd on
Ocean avenue while looking out of the win
dow and went there to see what the trouble
was. He found gang of men taking the
mangled remains of his child from under
meath the car.
Sutton was held on charge of man
slaughter. Counsellor Rosenburg said he
would visit Judge Lippincott this afternoon
and ask to have the motorman admitted to
bail