The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-10
BOY KILLED
AS MO Their
SEEKS HIM
Six-year-old StaniSlaus
SOlek'S Life Crushed
Out by Car.
PARENT COMES TO STATION,
BUT NEWS is WITHHELD
Later Father of Lad Is Sum-
moned by Police and Told
of Tragedy.
PARENT COMES TO STATION. /
BUT NEWS is WITHHELD

A few minutes after a 6-year -old boy
was killed by q trolley car on Avon
avenue today, and the body, uniden-
tified, had been sent to Holes morgue
Mrs. Jacob solek, of 80 Livingston
street, entered the Fourth Precinct POI
lice station and reported to Sergeant
Meyerowitz that her boy was missing
She. had no sooner described her son
when the policeman was convinced that
it was the wornan's child who had been
killed. but mercifully withheld his sus-
picDons from the mother. He told her
to go h0ine and that search for Stanis-
laus would be made.
PIainclofhesman Kaas was directed
to hurry to the Solek home in Living
ston street. get the husband, Jacob, and
take him to the morgue. The elder
Solek f5entified the mutilated body as
that Of his son and started home to tell
his wife as best he could that little
Sta1islans had been found.
Ran In Front OF Car.
It was little after 10 o'clock when
Stanisiaus who had wandered away from
home, ram out from Livingston street
into the car tracks, directly IN front OF
Clifton avenue car No. 755 west-bound,
and corning rapidly down the grade
from Belmont avenue. Benjaman Van
Hnuten. the motorman. threw himself
upon his AXE in an effort to stop the
car before the boy was struck down,
but 1t was too Late. The fender pushed
the boy to the pavement between the
rails and he escaped the front trucks OF
the car, only to be caught by the rear
trucks and dragged for fifty feet.
Pc1sccvnap Nearby,
Btcyois Policeman Schmidt saw the
accident and ran to the scene. He
directed that the car be backed, and
with Frank e. Cosgrove, of 1S5 Miller
street. succeeded I'm extricating the boy
from the car. while terribly nangled
there was still flint signs of life in the
boy and he was taken to St. Barnabas's s
Hospital in an ambulance which had
been summoned from the station house.
County Physician Mckenzie. who was
passing the hospital, entered, examined
the boy and found he was dead. He
ordered the removal of the body to
Holes morgue. Van Houten, who lives
at 761 Bergen street, and John Glug, the
conductor, OF 5l1 South Seventeenth
street, were placed under arrest and
taken to the Fourth Precinct station
house.
A police search of the neighborhood
in which the accident occurred. to es-
fabnshl the identity of the little victim
of the accident was Immediately begun.
The police knew that when the report
of the death of a boy had been circu-
lated through the neighborhood they
would hear from anxious parents.
BOY wandered Away.
Mrs. Solek had not heard this report
when she came to the station house
She explained that the boy had wan
dered away from home and she was
worried about him because he bad not
been quite like her other children from
the time of an attack of whooping
cough in his babyhood. She had never
permitted him to leave the house, She
said. because she feared he might meet
with an accident.
The spot in Avon avenue where the
Solek boyl was killed Is but two and
one-half blocks from his home.
The conductor and motornen were
later paroled in the custody of a super
fnteudent Of the car barns