New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-11-10
NEW.JERSEY NEWS.
4 BOYS TERRIBLE MISTAKE.
HE TRIES TO QUENCH A FIRE WITH
KEROSENE.
HIS LITTLE SISTERS CLOTHES TAKE FIRE WHILE
PLAYING AROUND STOVE AND HIS
EFFORTS TO PUT OUT THE BLAZE IN
1-uIc 4 AND

PLAYING AROUND STOVE. AND HIS
EFFORTS TO PIT OUT THE BLAZE IN
CREASE HER DANGER AND
CAUSE HER DEATH.
Jennie Ritz twenty-onc months old, was purhe"
to death yesterday morning In the Apartments VI i.
parents on the nth floor of No. 6s Com"erce.'
Newark The child's death IL believed III me"s"
70 have been hasten I'd by her four-year-od Dro."e'
whom ber dress caught hra he Is supposed to nave
taken a can of oil and thrown 1t upon her 10 que"'
the flames This Is the story generally peiie'e"
Another is that he saturated her dress peio'e "
caught fire. -. Aha
Mrs Ritz whose husband is a truckman' ie'' t'''
two children alone about II o'clock. while she oe-
seconded to the street TO purchase So"'e P
from huckster She left strict orders win ''e ~,
F,, Jdie TO keen his sister away from the nre INC
matches were safely out Of their reach lhe'e "''
q fire in the kitchen range The oil can wh'c" a''e'
ward figured In the burning OF the chiih NUNS u" "
hook In closet. -
Mrs Ritz made her purchase from the ""' n'''
and then entered a market just across the stree
- nor home As she was emerging from the
s,ors she looked up toward the windows OF he'
APARTMENTS and saw her boy leaning OUT VI u''
window lie appear, to be calling her' pu. wv
distance he was above the street, coupe" WI" NV
Noise made II impossible for his voice 10 fe'o" Nv
The boy was hanging far out OF the WINDOW. anu
ne che feared he would topple over ana Iai. ih'
hoy did not mind her. Mrs. Ritz ran into the mouse
hrrrvinp to reach the room before the chiid Tell
AZ she was going the stairs she iou"" 'ne
other tenants Of the upper floors hurryins up""i"'
They had been attracted by the screams VI Va.
u,t,e girl Mrs Ritz heard them. too ana h"'''e"
IN reaching the door almost soon as tnose WIZ
had n flight Of stairs more the START vi III
Mrs Ritz threw open the door ana louhu nri ILL., H.
sitting on the floor of the kitchen moanhe, hu,
dress was almost entirely burned from her' ou'
was stilI smoudering. The mother ana me he's"
hors tore the remaining fragments rom ne,, and
Dr chorles r. Krnemcr was suWr'on'u "'In
drcs .ed The ctd's burns Her body from me knees
inward was badly burned and her race VIZ
scorch,d The doctor said that the cf,ii" ~" III
boled the flames He wished TO have the NIUE v,,e
sent to a hospital. but the mother fornnns. ., H.
hours later the child died. despite tie EFFORTS Vi '
The how was g.catly excited and coud AZ lirS, .e
NILE OF the circumstar lie salu they n ~ =,
',s,,nr with paper around the hre anu ia;
Innnie's dress caught He threw water on net ~
watcr nroyed to be kerosene. 40" 'n' ~ 49,"
H. c,n down Is not known. From what ~ 81
!, ,oud annear ne threw the oil on her after w
aamcs had caught her dress from the Taper WIN
they were burning. II Is thought ny so. ,l' al -,
HOY took he oil can before That 10 pou, INV WI "
,hc noner TO mike 1t blaze more brlshiH' "a, A..
The hoy sticks to his story that II WAS hI", ~
obiid,s clotninr caught fire that he noureu ~. w
water, ON her After the little ones dress chuhl
o sha ran from IN, kitchen to the front room an
| h,ck again When she reached the kitcH'h CIV
| fel IN the door stupched by the narnes ., :,
| Mrs Ritz was frantic with grief ar III, ~, M
| kiIi herself and became so hNstrrlcai ti', 20
| I<racner had TO administer soolhHs P'''''