The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-03
In Trolley Car Springs As It Dash
es On Its Way
CROWD WANTED ROPE
To Lynch the Motorman, Who Said
Ee Knew Nothing Of the Occur
renee Until His Attention Was
Called to It By Merry Crowd Of
People on Their Way to the Thea
Sre. Little Fellow Died.

They do things in a hurry in New
York. With the body Of fve-year-
old child caught up in the springs
that had crushed 1t to death a 3.
r. T. car Of the Lorimer street line
rushed on TWO blocks through crowd
ed Broadway in Williamsburg.
Not one Of the twenty pssse2g gers,
the conductor or the motormaa was
aware that an accident had occurred
and save few children who heard
the cry OF terror as the little one was
drawn beneath the fender, none
knew Of the horror.
A crowd Of men were crossing
Lorimer street, at Broadway. COM
ias from the Gayety theatre during
an internission. When the : car
slowed down. one Of the men caught
sight Of something beneath the body
Of the car He called to the motor
man.
Even then the, object was SO small
it did not look like child 1t was
ro1id up almost like a ball. The mot
orman did not understand, except
there was something under the car.
A man stopped down, looked. and
gave cry, My God, its a child"
In an instant the crowd was around
the car. The motorman Jumped
from the front and the conductor
from the rear.
81 didn't run any one down, said
the motorman, as he looked, sti in
credulous, underneath the bc>y Of
the car. Then he saw the child and
wilted
Women passengers came out, al
though they had not felt any Jar Of
the car 4 couple of men crawleG
beneath the car as best they could
while policeman turned in call
for an ambulance. IN few niru-
tes a man dragged out the mansied
little body. The street was black
with children. A couple Of little tots |
came up and pressed through the J
crowd.
cts Sammy" said one. eve seed
him ruined over
Sammy who? Where was he run |
over?" asked one Of the crowd
..He was run over at More street,
said the other.
More street is two blocks nearer !
the ferry, and the crowd began to |
understand what had happened.
The clang Of the ambulance drew
more persons, and from the Theatre
came others, until the policeman
who had sent in the call for an am
bulance telephoned for the reserves.
The motorman was protesting that |
he had not seen any child. He SAID |
that at More street he had had al ne |
could do to prevent collision With
q wagon. The child might have been
behind it, and ran over without be-
ing seen.
The crowd was fast growing Un-
coptrollable, and cries for a rope |
soon went up. Those in front started
to throw stones at the motori:an,
and demands for a lynching were
freely made. =,
Then a policeman took charge OF
the motorrran and placed him OF Gne
platform of the car. He was warned !
by the crowd to keep back, While
boys were picking up stones ID the
street: When the reserves from the
Clymer street station arrived the pa
troll wagon that brought them TOOK
back the motorman as a prisoner
with the body Of the child IN the oot' I
tom.
At the police station the motor
man was locked up on a charge OF
homicide. He is Raymond Gee, OF
No. 40 Albany avenue. A minute
later the father Of the child came
in.
The little fellow was Sarlue'
Klatz, FIVE years old, Of No. Is More
street. With a couple Of other chill
dren he had been playing IN 1ron'
OF the house and wandered about In
to busy Broadway, where he was
killed.