The sun., 1907-11-29
CAR KILLED NARY COUGHLIN
SO HER PARTY FOR TEE KIDS
WILL NOT BE HELD.

ThaRAGsglylng FeOiery kept Them Late on
the streets. sO Mary Went Go HUNT
Thom UD. ana Then the Light Scared
Her and Made Her stop Where she MD.
They were getting ready for Thanks
giving party at little Mary Coughlins 3 house
last night. and because some Of her rasa-
muffin friends whom she had been out with
all afternoon delayed in arriving she de-
cided to 90 out and hurry them up. Mary
believed in starting parties sarly, because
when one is only years old and cannot
stay up late il 10 we'll to have the merry
making begin just a. soon as possible.
So when darkness fell and the lights
began 70 wink Mary, despite the sssur-
ances Of her brothers and sisters that there
was plenty Of time. started for the street.
Up Third avenue. near Forty-hTth street,
she came across a group OF boys and girls
still In regalia. She told them that they
had better hurry home and put on their
Sunday clothes u they wanted to be ready
for the party, and the youngsters Obe-
diently raced down the avenue
They were yelling and footing horns
as they ran acrOes Third avenue at Forty
third street, and Mary, who was trailing
on in the rear, didn't hurry as fast as the
others because she had her Sunday dress
on and wasn't taking any chances. The
boys and girls who raced ahead OF her
passed in front Of a nOrthbound Third
avenue car and a second later Mary,
startled by the fash Of the headlight, stood
bewildered in tho centre Of the tracks
before the Oncoming car.
Before the mOtOrman could put on his
brake and turn OF the power the car was
upon the child. Her crushed body was
wedged in between the forward and rear
trucks. Both legs and her skull were
fractured. Her death was instantaneous.
A big crowd that gathered spoke Of dealing
with the mocOrman. but Policeman Hensler
OF the East FiHty-irst street station raped
Tor assistance, got Smith away and had
him locked in a store where nobody could
reach him. Policemen and citizens got 10
work and lacked up the car and got the
Not long after the accident James Cough |
I'm, Marys father, began to think that ahe |
was remaining away an unusually long
time, considering that she was complaining !
because the party wasn't being started early
enough. When he left the house at POS |
East FOrty-third street he learned that a |
little girl had been run over by a car, but the |
several children he asked about the accident |
gave evasive answers and said nobody was |
quito sure who vas killed.
"A lot o raEamufins was crOssin' tn |
street an one Of them gifts r,lnned over" |
volunteered a lad Who had been with Mary 4
at the time. He couldn't tell COughlin |
that II was Mary. The father however
suspected. and he hurried to the East Fifty |
first street police station. The lieutenant |
showed him into the section room and Ehare /
he saw the mangled body of the girl in her
dishevelled party clothes
So they didn't have party at the Cough !
Inns last night, and none of the other kiddies |
in the neighboThood gave another thought |
to Thanksgiving. They just cried and 4
went to bed early.
M0torman James Smith Of 2O2 Fast Forty |
third street was lookei up on a chsrge Of !
homicide.