The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-14
BOY KILLED
BY BAYONNE
MANS AUTO
Ten-year-Old Alfred Geniel1
the Victim--NOOna Chauf-
feur Arrested.

In an accident that several eye
witnesses say was unavoidable. Alfred
Geniell, 10 years old, lost his life by
being run down by an automobile
owned by former Judge Thomas f.
Noonan, of Bayonne, on the Bridge
street bridge last night, dying shortly
after being admitted to st. Miohaefs
Hospital.
The accident occurred a few feet
within the Hudson County line
but Howard Petersen, the chauffeur,
was placed under arrest and taken to
the Second Precinct, where he was
held until this morning, when he was
turned over to the Hudson County au-
thorities. A thorough investigation OF
the circumstances of the accident has
been ordered.
Young Gehiell, who lived at III Park
avenue, with several other boys had
gone to view the parade of the Holy
Name societies on Broad street, and
afterward went to play with some boys
residing in Harrison. 1t was this that
caused the fatality, for the boy was
1uH uOWlt vi tDS 1AAo6 S1ONN ~
Just within eleven feet of the Essex
County line. This was not discovered
until measurements of the place had
been taken by Captain Ebert's order,
after Howard Petersen, 27 years old,
the chauffeur, had been locked up in
the witness room at the Second Pre-
cinct station.
In the automobile at the time the boy
was run down, besides Petersen, werR
Judge Noonan's wife and 10-year-old
daughter Mary, Mrs. Ignatius Noonan,
a sister-in-law, of So West Seventy-sec-
ond street, and Miss Genevieve Malone.
of West 123d street, both of New York.
The party was bound for Seton Hall,
South Orange, where two of Judge
Noonan's sons are at school, and was
to have been Joined later by the Judge,
who was a participant in the Holy
Name, rally at Bayonne.
Owing to the poor condition of the
Plank road for auto travelling, the
Turnpike route is always taken by the
Noonan family whenever they go In
their auto from Bayonne to South Or
ange. 1t was shortly after 3 p. m. yes
terday that the auto reached n bridge
spanning the Passaic between Harrison
and Newark. AS the machine a out
on the bridge Petersen saw that a boat
passing up the river had signafed the
bridge-tender and. stopped within a
few feet of the draw, which had not
yet been opened. As he did so he was
signaled by the bridge-tender, William
Jenkins, of Clay street, Harrison, to
come ahead, as there was time for the
auto to pass before the draw need be
opened.
Petersen had just started, the speed
of the auto being about nine miles an
hour, and the machine had gone about
ten feet, when suddenly young Geniell
and Another boy ran into the roadway
from the footpath. They were playing
'horse' and Geniell was being driven
by the other boy.
Both were running rapidly as they
dashed into the roadway, and, although
Petersen ground Town his brakes hard
and reversed, the big touring car struck
Geniell and threw him about fifteen
feet along the draw. Quickly the auto
was stopped and Petersen was the first
to reach the side of the boy, who, face
downward in a pool of blood, lay un-
conscious in the roadway.
John Sullivan, a brother of Alderman
Sullivan, of Harrison, was also quickly
at the scene, and, with the bridge
tender and Edward Meeker, of Fl john
son street, Newark, picked UT the boy.
Seeing that he was seriously hurt Mrs.
Noonan and the other" occupants of the
car ordered Petersen to place young Cen
iell in the auto and hurry to hospital.
st. Barnabas's being the nearest, the auto
was Quickly run there and everything
possible doae for. the injured lad. There
was no nance COR his life, however, his
skull being fractured and death soon fol-
lowed.
Policemen Sugrue and Beattie, of the Sec
ond Precinct, who had been summoned,
took the auto and its occupants to the sta
tion house. where Petersen was held on a
charge of manslaughter. Mrs. Noonan, her
lowed to go. and the car taken to the
Jackson garage in Broad street. There The
party obtained another car and in 1t re-
turned to Bayonne.
Last night Judge Noonan came to the
Second Precinct and saw Petersen. Cap
tain Evert, who had by measurements of
the scene of the accident, determined that
it had occurred on the Harrison side of
the river, phoned to the police there and
later Judge Noonan also went to- Harrison.
Chief of Police Rodgers, Of Harrison,
however, refused to take the prisoner until
he is absolutely sure that the fatality oc-
CURED within his jurisdiction, and Petersen
will be arraigned before Judge Herr, in
the Second Precinct Court, this morning.