Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-30
QueI|ed Mob Pretending Little
Brother Wasn't Dead.
BOY KILLED IN HER ARMS
Angry Italians Sought Vengeance
Upon Chauffeur.
BOTH RUN DOWN BY AUTO
Police Reserves Face Trouble. Avert
ed by Wit Of Ambulance Surgeon
With Girls Help.

NEW YORK, November n-An anbu-
lance surgeon. little Italian girl. who
had been run down by an automobile
while carrying her year-old brother
across the street and the police reserves
of the East 1O4th street station all PLAYED
part yesterday afternoon in dispensing
a crowd of angry Italians who threat
ened to break the windows In drug
store to get at the driver of the car
The little girls part was To carry her
dead brother in her arms through the
crowd and play that he hadn't been
harmed
The accident occurred at I'd avenue and
18th street, in the heart of Harlem
Little Italy.
An automobile owned by the Bryant
garage of ~ West 43d street was coming
south on the west side of I'd avenue, with
two men, who gave their names FL
lott Wadsworth and Guy +. Trip of the
Hotel Algonquin. in the car. The driver
was William II. Gorham.
Run Down by Auto.
At that moment Philomena Pescareila
of 21S6 I'd avenue started to go from the
east to the west side of the street, car
rying her little brother Reppino in her
arms. The child's head obscured the little
knocked down by the automobile.
The car kept on until several persons
who had seen the accident yelled to the
chauffeur, and he stopped about nifty
feet away. He declared that he didirt
know he had struck any one.
Sergt. Click of the East 10ith street
station was talking to Policeman Golden
about half block away. Hearing the
yelling they ran down to where the chill
dren lay in the street. stopping to take
the chauffeur along with them.
They found that the girl was not much
hurt, but the boy. badly crushed, was
lifeless. They picked up the boy and car
ried him into a drug store on the corner
and the little girl and Gorham went in
side, too.
sergt. Click sent to the station house
for the reserves and called Ambulance
Surgeon Harrity from Harlem Hospital.
crowd had already gathered outside
the locked door of the drug store. de-
children had been killed and cursing the
driver of the car.
Angry Crowd Gathers.
The police reserves got there just as
one of the crowd had picked up paving
block with the apparent intention OF
| throwing it through the door of the drug
store. The Italians moved back sullenly
| to the edge of the curb when the police
got out their clubs.
When DR.. Harrity examined the boy
| and found that he was dead and decided
| that the little girl was only bruised Sergt.
| Click asked him to help reassure the
| crowd. Click had sent the two occu-
pants of the automobile on to the station
! house with instructions not to talk to
| any one.
When DR.. Harrity went outside he said
SO that every one could hear him:
They're not hurt any. i m just going
| to take them to the station house in the
ambulance
Right behind the doctor came the li.Le
| girl with a shawl wrapped about the
crushed face of the dead child. She was
carrying the boy in exactly the same po-
sition as when they were struck by the
| car.
| She handed the dead boy to DR.. Har-
| rity, who laid 1t on the stretcher. Then
| she climbed into the ambulance and sat
| beside the body.
The Italians, who were then satisfied
| that the accident had not been serious.
made no attempt to harm the chauffeur
when Sergt Click took him out of the drug
store and got on a I'd avenue car to go
to the station house. The little girl went
| to the hospital, but was sent home in an
hour.
| Gorham was locked up on a charge OF
| homicide. Coroner Harburger ordered
| that he be detained until today and then
! be arraigned at the coroner's o.-ce