The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-04-05
/" DYING BOY
In Trolley Car Springs AS 1t Dash.
es On Its Way
CROWD WANTED ROPE

10 lynch the Motorman, Who sot
He Knew Nothing OF the Occu,
renee Until His Attention wn
Called to 1t by Merry Crowd O
People OH Their Way TO the Then
tire. Little Follow Died.
Ihey do things in hurry in Ney
YORK. With the body OF fiye-yeaI
Ola child caught up In the spring
IhaI had crushed it to death /
H. i. car OF the Lorimer street lin
rushed on two blocks through crow,
ed broadway in WILLIAMSBURG.
Not one OF the twenty passenger.
tho conductor or the motorman W.
aware that an accident had occ,rre
and save few children who hear
the cry OF terror as the little one wa
drawn beneath the fender. non,
knew OF the horror
a crowd of men were crossin
Lorimer street, at Broadway, con
Ing from the Gaycty theatre durin
an intermission. When the c.,
slowed down, one OF the men caugh
sight OF something beneath the bod
or the car. He called to the motor
man.
Even then the object was SO smal
1T did not look like a child. 1t WI
rolld up almost like ball. The mo,
orman did not understand. exec,
there was something under the car
man stopped down, looked, an
gave cry, My Cod, it's a child!
In an instant the crowd was arount
the car. The motorman iumpe,
from the front and tho conducto
from the rear.
81 didn't run any one down" sal,
the motorman, as he looked, still in
credulous, underneath the body
the car. Then he saw the child an;
wilted.
Women passengers came out al
though they had not felt any jar
the car. A couple Of men crawlct
beneath the car us best they coult
while policeman turned in cal
for an ambulance. In Il few minu-
tes a man dragged out the mangled
little body The street was black
with children. a couple Of little tots
came up and pressed through the
crowd
It's Sammy" said one. 1--WE seed
him runned over
Sammy who? Who're was he run
over?" asked ono 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 tc
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.
bulancc tclephoncd for the reserves
The motorman Was protesting that
he had not seen any child. He said
that at Moro street he had had all he
could do to proVcnt Il collision with
wagon. The child might have been
behind it, and ran over without be
ing seen.
The crowd was fast growing un.
cOntrOllable, and cries for a rope
soon went mp. Those in front started
to throw stones at the mOtorman
and demands for lynching were
freely made.
Then a policeman took charge Of
the motorman and placed him on the
platform Of the car lie was warned
by the crowd TO keep back, while
boys wero picking mp stones in the
street. When the reserves from the
Clymer street station arrived the pa
troll wagon that brought them took
back the MUtorman as prisoner
with the body OF the child in the bot
tom.
At the police station the motor
man was locked up on charge OF
homicide. Tic IS Raymond Gcer, o;
No. 40 Albany avenue. A minute
later the father OF the child came
In.
X The little fellow was Samuel
Klatz, five years old, OF No. | 5 Moro
street. With a couple Of othor chill
dren he had been playing in front
OF the house and wandered about in
. to busy Broadway, where he was
~killed