The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-06
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N AN F R IA
UNDER CAR
Hurt = MOtorman
Threatened, Fees Found,
Held for Nanslaughter.

A South Orange avenue trolley car
and a wagon. both going in the same
direction, crashed at Smith street and
South Orange avenue last night, re-
sulting in the death of one man and
serious injury to another and landed
the motorman of the car behind the
bars without bail to await the action
of the Grand Jury.
Anthony Ming, of % West street,
who is dead, was thrown from the
wagon in front of the car and horribly
mangled, and Frank Willard, of
Washington street, is in st. Barnabas's
Hospital in a serious condition. y
After the accident the motorman.
Patrick Hoolahan, of 20 Eighteenth
street, fed, panic-stricken, and left his
conductor, Arthur Kraemer, of $50
South Orange avenue, to tfe mercy of
the mob that gathered rapidly and
who, when they saw the mangled body
under the trucks of the, car, would
have done him bodily harm but for the
intervention of the police.
The accident ccurred near the poll
ing place of the first district Of the
Thirteenth Ward. and the men gath
cred around the polls were on the spot
quickly and tried to lift the car off
Ming's body, without success, and while
they were busy at this the motorman
escaped and wandered through the
streets practically out of his mind with
fright until he reached the car barns,
where he was placed under arrest by
Detective Sergeants Fohs I'M Kukn,
of headquarters. and when arraigned
before Judge Herr today was held
without bail for the Grand Jury on a
charge of manslaughter. The conductor
vas paroled.
The residents in the vicinity Of the
accident call the spot "the loop of
DEATH as the cars make up time on
the stretch, which is all down grade,
and has for some time past been the
favorite place for late motormen to
ignore the signal of passengers to stop
until the end of the grade was cached.
At first it was understood that the
collision was head-on, but this was dis
proved later, when it vas learned that
the wagon swung wide out Of Smith
street and the car, which witnesses
say was going at a high rate of speed,
rushed alongside. carried the wagon
along, throwing the horse without in
juring it, and tossing Ming ahead and
under the forward trucks of the vehicle.
Willard was the driver of the wagon
upon which he and Ming, his helper,
were returning to the store after de-
livering a load of goods in the Wadls-
burg section. The car thai struck the
wagon was well filed with passen-
gers. Hoolahan shouted to Kraener
that two men were under the car
Hoolahan was trembling and his face
showed the agitation under which he
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cred. The accident occurred close TO a
polling place, and when Hoolahan and
Kraemer went forward to investigate
there were cries of lynch the motor
man."
Willard was found amid the wreckage
of the wagon and the twisted fender
of the car, while underneath the
could be seen the body of Ming. Word
was sent to the car barns, and the
st~ationmaster and ~wrecking crew hur-
ried to the scene. 1t was necessary
to jack up the car before Ming's body
could be taken to a nearby store,
where it lay pending the arrival Of a
wagon from Holes morgue. Kraemer
was at once arrested.
Kraemer could throw no light upon
the accident, and was so badly ratified
that he did not finish out his run. He
has peer in the employ of the Public
Service for some time and. like Hoola-
han. has a good record. Plaincfothes-
men Kaas and Siebold, of the Fourth
Precinct, were at once started out TO
search for the missing motorman, but
it was FUhs and Kuhn who got him
at the car barns.
From papers found In h pockets Of
Ming when the body was taken to the
morgue his identity was revealed.
From the tenor of a letter written by
a woman relative from a town in IN
necticut, Ming must have but recently
established a new home for his mother
in this city. One passage in the letter
was particularly pathetic in view Of
the fatality. 1t has reference to the
near approach of Thanksgiving and
expresses the wish that in the new
home Ming and the members Of his
family would fttingly celebrate the
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