The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-19
LITTLE POET KILLED
Child RhymSter Run Over by
Auto in New York.
WROTE VERSE FOR TEACHER
Mary Manning. Eleven Years Old.
Meets Death While Coming Home
with Smaller Sister from Visiting
Friend. tn Whom She Went to
show Poem She Had written.

New York. Feb 1S-When the teacher
Of Mary Manning's S grade in the big red
brick schoolhouse 1H. on West Fifty
eighth street. arrived to-day she missed
the child's usual little Offering Oh her
desk. Loretta, Mary's little sister was
missing. too. Then they told her how
Mary had been run down and killed last
night by a big motor car in front Of her
home. at SIS Tenth avenue.
Although Mary was only eleven years
old she was one of the brightest pupils
in her school. She was quaint old
fashioned child. and while the other
children We're playing Mary was centrally
of IN d corner somewhere with a pencil
and paper writing verses. They were
crude pieces of rhyme. but every one who
knew Mary. and that was every one I'm
the neighborhood. from Cheap Joe at the
candy store to the big fat Dutch grocery
man on the corner. regarded the child as
a prodigy. They had all begged for and
got little poems from her on any sub
ject they asked for.
Wrote One for Teacher.
Last week Mary wrote something that
she thought was good enough TO show
her teacher, so with much trepidation she
presented il % her. tt was intended to
show the happy condition Of a chiId's
mind
Into the sunshine fan of light.
Lfapins and flashing from morn TIL night:
Into the starlight. rushing IN spray
Happy by day. glad in all weather
The teacher praised the verses. and SO
yesterday Mary wanted TO take them over
and read them to Mrs. John McKeever.
the wife Of policeman living at 446 West
Fifty-tifth street Her mother cautioned
her to be careful of the street cars. and
20 see that Loretta. who accompanied her.
held her hand when they crossed the
street.
It was dark when the two little girls
started for home. and they hurried as
fast as they could. At Tenth avenue
and Forty-fifth street they saw their
mother looking out OF the window of
their home. She beCkoned them TO hurry.
There was street ear approaching on
the southbound track.
Auto on Other Side.
quick, We can get across i'm front of
that car, called Mary to Loretta. Hand
i'm hand the sisters started to cross the
street. The car halted on the north
side and behind it came at a fair rate
of speed touring car with brown body
and black hood containing two men besides
the driver. They dashed round the sta
tonary car just as Mary and her sister
reached the center Of the street. I0r-
eta pulled back and the wheels grazed
her as the car dashed by. But Mary
seemed stricken rigid with fright. She
made no sffort to get out of the way of
the machine and it passed over her with
cut slackening speed
The little girl made no outcry. ana.
it was several seconds before the shrieks
Of Loretta. when she realized what had
happened, brought "A crowd running 20
where Mary's body in its Sunday fnery
lay still on the car tracks The auto
driver had thrown on his brake as he
struck the child. but when he saw the
CLINT of Policeman McKeever's brass but
tons in the angry crowd he started the
car down the avenue at top speed. Shout
ing angrily the crowd pursued the motor
car. but it soon distanced them. Mary
was carried into a nearby drug store.
Death Was MercifuI.
She was dead-ktlled instantly. the am
bulance surgeon said-the heavy wheels
having passed over her neck. In her
hand, gripped very tightly, was the scrap
of writing about a child's happy life.
The police, after an ail-night search.
have arrested chauffeur named Tim
Othy Faldey. aged eighteen. of J0l West
FOTty-elghth street on suspicion of he