The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-20
CROWD SEES GIRL
CRUSHED TO DEATH
UNDER GAR WHEELS
Victim Was Running to Get leo
Cream When She Was
Run Down.
DOCTOR CRAWLS UNDER :
CAR TO SAVE HER
Child Meets Tragic End on Visit
to Relatives in This
City.

A great crowd which collected wher
South Orange avenue trolley 90,
ran down girl at Fairmount avenue
yesterday waited breathlessly while a
physician crawled under the car tc
see If any life, remained in the little
body which was wedged beneath the
motor box
When he finally worked his way out
from under the car the physician, DIR
English, of the City Hospital, shook
his head, and every man and woman
near enough to see him knew that the
child was dead
Every bone in her body is broken,
he said. II could not reach her heart
but am sure she Is dead Don't take
any chances, though. Hurry along the
jacks"
When the jacks were finally OBJ
tained and the heavy car was raised
it was found that the child was dead
She had been instantly killed. Struck
first by the fender, according to wit
nesses she had been tossed beneath
the motor box and crushed. The vic
tim of the accident was 9-year-old Lii
lie Schlesinger, of 307 East Ninety
fifth street. New York. With her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Schlesinger
and her three little brothers, she had
come to Newark yesterday to visit her
aunt, Mrs. Ignatz Klein, of 265 South
Orange avenue.
Late in the afternoon II was sug-
gested that some one go for ice cream
,j11ia difantad t0
a candy store at 25S South Orange ave-
nue.. To reach the place 1t was neces~
sary for her to cross the tracks In
avoiding a westbound car she stepped
directly in front of an east-bound car
and as the car was suddenly stopped
fell from the fender, which caught her
under the motor box. The body was
taken in City Hospital ambulance to
the undertaking establishment of r
M. Pearce. 321 South Orange avenue
David E. Oliver, of 43S South Twelfth
street, motorman of the car, and PhiliI
Brofkin, SS Harrison street. West Or
ange, conductor, were arrested. Later
they were paroled for their appearance
In the Fourth Precinct Court today.
Charged with manslaughter,, the
motorman was arraigned today in the
Jul IICClHtt Noult anu iiSiu lOi
the action Of the grand jury. Later he
was taken to the prosecutors Office
and released under $1,000 bail. The
conductor was paroled as witness.
Miss Emma Engle, who witnessed the
fatal accident from window of her
home on the second floor of 261 South
Orange avenue, thus described it,.
"I saw the child crossing the street
She had just stepped out of the
way of a westbound car and did
not notice the approaching east
bound car As l saw the child step
forward I felt that she would be hurt,
if not killed. l let out piercing
scream and pedestrians looked up at
the window, believing that some-
thing had happened up there. Then
when / saw the child fall on the
fender / thought she might be saved.
'She fell on her side on the fender
with her face toward the front of the
car. The motorman threw on the
brake with an awful jerk. This proved
fatal. The sudden jar threw the child
from the fender beneath the car. Then
as l saw the child's body dragged be-
tween the motor box and the stones l
became ill and tainted"