Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-07
SPEEDY AUTO
STAYS A CHILD.
Then COIOred Driver Chaps on
Full Speed and Escapes
UnreCOgnized.

NEWARK, Nov. 6:-Five minutes
after she had been given permission
to join her small friends in play in
front of her home, III Prince street,
late yesterday afternoon, Sarah Stein,
two years and three months old, lay
crushed and dead in the roadway a
few doors away, the victim OF a
speeding automobile. The ponderous
machine was in charge of a colored
man, who, when he realized what had
happened, crowded on all power and
raced out of the neighborhood before
the Mortified o%nlookers could make a
move to apprehend him.
In the crowd was DR.. Victor Par
sonnet, of 1874 West Kinney street,
but he was so dazed by what he had
witnessed that he failed to observe
the number at the rear of the auto.
The doctor hE'ried to give attention
to the mangled child as soon as she
had been carried into her home, but
she was dead. In the opinion of the
physician, little Sarah had been killed
instantly. Her injuries included the
crushing of the pelvic bone and the
tearing of the flesh of the abdomen.
1t is believed by DR.. Personnel that
shock also contributed to the child's
death.
Sarah was the daughter of Morris
and Mary Stein, who conduct a mems
furnishing store at the Prince street
address and occupy rooms at the rear.
1t had been the custom of the little
n to %confine her amusements large
ly to the store, but yesterday after
..~o Iooo,oo of thn n1naCa1,t Urnofhnr
and the happy shouts of the children
outside, Mrs. Stein was induced to
permit the child to join them in the
street, after warning her not to leave
the sidewalk. That was shortly be-
fore 4 O'Clock.
The automobile was travelling
north on Prince street and going at a
rate of speed that was characterized
as exceedingly reckless, considering
the crowded condition, of the thor
oughfare, and the large number of
children playing in the roadway. No
one seems to have noticed the APP
preach of the car, and no n could
be found who heard its horn sound.
After crossing Montgomery street the
auto, it is claimed, increased it's speed
until, when it reached a point directly
in front of No. 1877 it ran down little
iSarah, crushing her beneath it's heavy
wheels. Almost before the neighbor-
hood had realized what happened, the
machine was disappearing in the di-
rection of West Kinney street and
was out of sight in a moment.
Several men, including DR.. Par
sonnet, rushed to pick up the crushed
4. little form. but a woman anticiDated
them and started for the Stein home.
The father, hearing the commotion
in the street, hurried out to inquire
it's cause, and his lifeless baby was
placed in his arms. Mrs. Stein faint
ed at the sight of her little one, and
it was with difficulty that she was re-
vived. A moment later DR.. Personnel
was working over the child, but he
saw almost at once that she was dead.
The police were notified and De-
tective-Sergeant Tuite and Detective
Koerber were placed on the case
County Physician Mckenzie issued a
permit for the burial of the body.
During the course of the inquiry
that followed the accident several
persons are said to have declared thai
the auto carried the number "271O
N. j." There is no such registered
auto number in this state. Whether
the number was improperly read in
the excitement has not been decided.
Little Sarah was buried this morn
ing, interment being in the Hebrew
cemetery. Mrs. Stein vas SO prostrat-
ed by the accident that she could not
accompany the body to the grave.