The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-04

no attention and when the train start
ed attempted to jump on the front plat
form of the trailer. He missed his foot
ing and fell. He fell directly IN front
of the pilot of a north bound car which
threw his body clear of the front wheels
but he was drawn under the car and
the rear wheels passed over his thigh.
He was taken to Christ hospital where
it was found that in addition to his leg
being crushed that his left arm was
fractured He did not survive the shock
and died at 1880 o'clock. His mother
lives at 1901 Kansas avenue.
General Manager Patten, of the city
railway, places no blame against the
employees He said:
THE boy has been in the habit OF
jumping on and off the cars, and had
been warned off three times by the con-
ductor of the car which injured him,
during the day, and a like number of
times by another conductor, and twice
by still another, all in one day. He
was on the east side of. a south bound
car. The Quinton Heights car, bound
north, came along at this time, the
current shut off and the brake applied
to make the usual stop.
Just as the open side of the -vesti-
bule came opposite the boy, he made
the second attempt to board the trailer,
missed it, and fell, and was apparently
struck by the pilot of the south bound
car and thrown around and in front of
the hind wheel, which passed over him
The car was stopped in from three to
six feet, having almost come to stop
at the time
'The conductor of the Quinton Heights
car was Paul AtchisOn, and the motor
man Charles Bigley. On the front part
of the car with Bigley was Otto Ander-
son, the company'S lineman, and he saw
the danger and called to the boy. but
could not save him. He assisted in re-
moving the boy to the drug store and
subsequently to the doctors office"
Police Matron Thorpe gives the fol-
lowing information about the boy:
His family lived in Indianapolis, Ind
His father was a drunkard, and so
abused his family that with the aid of
the w. c. T. u. of Indianapolis, Mrs.
Henderson, secured divorce from him.
She was then employed by the W. G. T.
o. ladies' there for several years, and
was helped by them to come to Topeka
last fall In Indianapolis Earl had one
leg crushed in the railroad yards, and
it was amputated at the knee. His older
sister remained in Indiana.
Mrs. Henderson, has been having a
hard struggle in Topeka 1 secured her
some work and she has given the best
of satisfaction. Earl had no clothing
to go to school, and with the help of the
Central Congregational committee this
was secured, and books also of the
school board. Earl was a suirited lit
tie fellow and was determined to secure
work of some kind, as his mother and
two sisters were suffering. I advised
him TO sec Mr.. Nissley and become a
newsooy. He was thus earning from 20
to SO cents a day for his mother. He
was very proud to do so. 1 arranged
for good homes for the two little girls,
but Mrs. Henderson, said: I could
never get a home for Earl, crippled as
he is, and I will keep him with me-
Last week the First Methodist Sunday
school gave Earl a suit and he entered
Mrs. McIntyre's class of the poor boys.
He had started out with brave heart
in the struggle for a living with all
against him.