The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-10
Killed BY IN ELECTRIC CAR.

Killed BY IN ELECTRIC CAR.
Frank II. Gamsby Falls Victim Early
Yesterday Morning-Was Riding Along
the Tracks and Fell From His Wheel
While Trying to Cross One of Them.
Frank II. Gamsby, a lad about fifteen
years Of age, was struck and instantly
killed by car No. 142 of the Fair Haven
and Westville Street railway about TAO
o'clock yesterday morning at the corner
of Orchard street and Whalley avenue.
The boy was employed in the office of
Comptroller Kochesperger of the Con-
solidated railroad and was en- route to
his work when the accident occurred.
Charles II. Pencil, who stood at the
corner of Orchard street and Whalley
avenue waiting for car, was an eye
witness OF the accident, gives the fol-
lowing description of what happened.
THE boy was riding a bicycle on the
macadimized space between the up and
down tracks of the Fair Haven and
Westville road. He was about TWEEN
he and the car were going at about the
same rate of speed-five or six miles
an hour There were some other per-
sons waiting with me at the corner of
Orchard street. AS the car approached
it slowed down and the motorman rang
his bell At the same time l saw the
boys forward wheel stagger as If slip
ping on the wet pavement. Just before
he reached the first crossing the boy
attempted to cross ahead of the car
and when just over the first rail his
wheel seemed to slide from under him
and he was thrown in front of the car.
He was pushed along for several feet
by the bar in front of the car and I
thought he would escape unhurt, but
before the car stopped he rolled under
the bar and the forward wheels passed
over him, killing him instantly.
There were about twenty passengers
in the car, and in few minutes a large
crowd had collected. The conductor
took my name and the names of others
who had witnessed the accident. I
sent for Dr. C. A. Tuttle, but he could
render no assistance"
Patrolmen Kober and Hope arrived at
minutes after it happened. The medi
| cal examiner and Coroner Mix, who
| had been notified, arrived soon after.
The railroad men were assisted in
| their efforts to extricate the body by
! ex-Alderman D. w. BIakeslee, who was
| passing along the avenue few minutes
| after the boy was killed.
The time consumed in getting the re-
mains from under the car was about
twenty-five minutes.
When the body was taken from be-
| meath the car one arm was found ex-
| tended upwards against the drum or
| covering to the motor, which is under
the floor of the car The other arm was
| under the body. Both arms were brok-
en-, the skull crushed, both legs terribly
mangled and the abdomen cut.
| The patrol wagon which had been
sent to the Jail for couple of prisoners
whose cases had been continued, passed
| by Just as the remains were taken from
| under the car, in charge of Court Officer
| Was and Driver Blake. Coroner Mix
| called to the officers in charge of the
] wagon, and on their return from the
| jail they gave him assistance. The
| body was removed to Lewis e. May
| cocks.
| The coroner directed that the motor
man, Patrick Longhery, 357 Grand ave-
nue., and the conductor, Michael Glib
| bons, of 260 Davenport av enue, be TAX
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| en- in custody until they could be eX-
| amined Later after having made
their statements, they were released.
| At Lewis & Maycock's, w. K. Stevens,
who came up from the office of Comp
| troller KOchesperger, was the first to
identify the body He said that young
| Gamsby was a bright boy and that he
| had just been promoted from a messen-
| ger to a clerk Medical Examiner
| White made an examination Of the body
| in the undertaking rooms.
Coroner Mix said there was no one to
| blame for the accident. 1.-THE boy was
careless and lost control Of his Wheel"
| he said. He probably tried to turn
into Orchard street when the wheel
| slipped"
| The victim of the accident was the
son of Herbert Gamsby, once a member
| of the firm of Gamsby & Dean, who
| was killed in runaway accident at the
| corner of Grand avenue and State street
| about three years ago. His mother
| Julia B. Gamsby, is living, and he had
two small sisters and a brother, about
eighteen years old, who was employed
in the store of Edward r. Jeffcott, 1913
| Church street. The latter learned of
| the accident half an hour after it hap
! penpd and went IN bic homo at Onoa