The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-03
BOY HURLED FROM ELEVATED.
TRAIN HIT HIM AS HE CRAWLED
THROUGH THE TIES.
He and Three Other Lads Were Trying 10
Steal q Ride by Climbing Up q Piiiar
From the Street-POIiceman's Can
stopped Him as Motor Car Came Along.

steal q Ride by Climbing Up RnlnF
From the Street-POliceman's Cah
stopped Him AZ Motor Car Came Along.
Four boys Of nine and ten, who had spenC
their last pennies on candy, undertook 10
climb from the street to the elevated station
at teeth street and Third avenue yesterday
afternoon in order to steal a ride Ihree
of them actually performed the feat, making
their way up one Of the pillars and through
the ties of the roadbed to the platform
The fourth, nine-year-old Milton Andel OF
333 East Seventy-seventh street, would nave
succeeded, had net a policeman caught
sight Of his dangling legs just as he was
squirting up between the ties. The police
man called out TO him, and az the boy stopped
to see who was calling train struck him.
He was 30 badly hurt that he is not ex-
pected TO recover
Milton and his twin brother Arthur and
two playmates went to Bronx Park early
yesterday morning and spent the day
there. BY sunset their money was gone
and they decided that they would have to
foot II for home.
When they got to 188th street and Third
could walk no further. Arthur Andel
is credited with having conceived the idea
of climbing up an elevated road pillar
to the station and stealing ride in that
way.
Ee was the first one TO get up to the plat
form. The ether two boys, whose names
the police do not know. followed him, and
Milton came last.
Nobody saw them until Milton had got
to the top of the pillar and was halfway
through the ties. Then somebody called
the attention Of Policeman Mccarthy OF the
Morrisania station to him.
what are you doing up there" the cop
shouted to the boy.
Milton heard the cry and stopped. just
then the noise Of an approaching train was
heard The policeman began to yell,
Duck, duck" to him, while on the plat
form Arthur Andel was dancing around
like an Indian and shouting to his brother
"Mit! Milt. The trains coming"
These warnings only confused the boy,
and the train was upon him before he real
lied that it was coming. Then he tried
to drop out OF danger, but too late. The
front truck OF the first car struck him
glancing blow on the head.
The blow stunned him and made him
lose his hold so that he tumbed in heap
to the street, twenty-five feet below.
Mccarthy made an effort to catch him.
but the best he could do was to pick up the
apparently lfeless body of the boy before
an approaching street car ran over it,
Arthur had in the meantime told the
conductor of the train, William Morton.
what had Just happened and Morton rushed
down to the street In the confusion the
two paymates of the Andcl boys managed
10 get away.
Milton Andel was taken TO the Lebanon
Hospital with fracture Of the skull, con-
tlsions Of the head, broken left arm and
left leg There was no hope for him at
all, the physicians slid,
Arthur was put under arrest after having
told his story to Policeman Mccarthy.
Later he was sent down TO the headquarters
of the Chldren's Society. crying bitterly
because he could not stay with his brother.
Arthur refused positively. inspite, OF both
Goa king and threats. to name the two play
mates who had made good their escape.
What's the use Of getting them in trou-
BILE. too, he said. Amt you sat sfied with
Milt an me?"