New-York tribune., 1909-03-28
KILLED BOY; ESCAPED
RUNABOUT DRAGGED THE
LAD HALF 4 BLOCK.
after Running OUer Him in Busy
Harlem Street T1co Men Got
4zcoy Unidentified.

Ingvaard Trimble the thirteen-year-old son OF
Robert T Trimble. a lawyer, of No All West
11Sth street, was struck by a runabout auto
mobile at 11Sth street and Morningslde avenue
West last evening. dragged half block by the
machine because his coat caught on the lamp,
and was then run over when his coat was torn
and he fell directly beneath the wheels OF the
automobile. There were two men in the run
about and they escaped by putting on speed.
Young Trimble was taken to st. Luke's Hos
pitaI in the automobile of a doctor who was
passing and died there two hours after being
admitted The only clew the police have to the
men In the runabout is a derby hat which one
of them lost.
The police declare that the running the
automobile either intoxicated or had lost
control of his machine as it was seen to wabble
from curb to curb before it struck the lad.
After his dinner at o'clock young Trimble
kissed his mother, who is invalid. and with
her permission went out to play with some of
his young chums "In be back home at $50
O'Clock" were the last, words the lad addressed
to his mother, and he went down the stairs
whistIing gay tune
With half dozen other boys young Trimble
went to Morningside avenue West and COM
menced to play hide and seek. When the &C
Cident occurred the boy was standing near the
west curb, just few feet out in the street. The
runabout advanced from the south going at
rapid clip Once the machine went wild and
against the east curb, the wheels brushing
against the curbstone. The running the
then seemed to get control of it again. and
ran it out into the middle Of the street. The
pace was not slackened at any time the car was
making its wild rushes from side to side.
When the was almost opposite young
Trimble it swerved sharply from the middle Of
the street and rushed directly at the boy Young
Trimble evidently the approaching him
and turned TO run. He had hardly taken step
when the runabout overlook him and struck him
full in the back The youngsters coat caught
on the lamp at the side of the car and he hung
there with his feet dragging the sidewalk
He was pushed along in this way for half a
block, screaming all the time The man at the
wheel OF the runabout seemed TO he tugging at
the levers the side OF the machine. but the
car did not IN the least slacken its speed Fully
a score Of persons the sidewalks witnessed
the accident. Men started after the run
about shouting and gesticulating. and women
screamed while Trimhe's boy chuTns joined In
the chase. Half block from where he had
been struck the boys coat tore loose from the
lamp and he fell directly beneath the wheels Of
the rlnabout and they over his body. After
the accident the runabout slowed drFn 70 al
most compleSs stop and the two men in 1t
turned in their seats
The crowd almost up with IL but be
fore the foremost man had reached il the man In
the runabout threw on power and shot ahead
at fast clip The sudden starting of th"
machine caused his hat to blow of and 1t fell
in the street. ON the inside are the initials
az. A b"
Dr Benjamin r Dolphin, OF 30. f5S West
1l6th street who had been called hailed a pass
ing touring car and placed the boy I'm il St
Iuke's Hospital was reached in a few minutes
and the boy taken at once TO the operating room.
He was unconscious and died without recover
ing his senses. Both his legs had been broken,
his skull fractured, and he had also sustained
internal injuries.
Mrs Trimble, when informed Of the boy
death collapsed. and late last night was under
the care of physicians, Robert T. Trimbl", the
father of the boy, is in Covington. Ky. where
his mother has an extensive estate. The Trim
BILE family is prominent about Covington and
Frankfort Ky. The dead boys grandfather
was a Judge in the Kentucky Supreme Court.
and another member of the family was in Con
gress some years ago.