New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-27
AUTOS KILL TWO BABES
ONE DASHES INTO CROWD
OF ITALIAN CHILDREN.
Other Crushes Little One Playing
Tag-Chaufeur Ran on to Side
zcalk to AUoid CroGCd IN Street.

Two children were instantly killed by auto
mobiles in different parts OF the city yesterday.
one OF the machines. owned by James T. Lee.
vice president Of tho Chester Mortgage Com
pany, of No $50 West End avenue. plunged into
group OF Italian children in front Of No 239
East 109th street. IN Little Italy" and
crushed the life out OF Maria Demarco. two
years old. and injured three other children. The
chauffeur, who said he was Frank Carlo. TWEEN
ty-three years old. of No. 335 East 14sth street.
disappeared just after the accident. but later
surrendered. and was held on a charge OF homi-
eide
lie said he had been forced to send the big
machine on TO the sidewalk in order to avoid
running down a dozen children who in tho
street He said he did not see the Demarco
child. who was crushed between the machine
and the fence OF the yard of the house. The
other children escaped with bruises.
When the auto crashed into tho children
Carlo leaped from the machine and ran away.
Knowing the temper of the Italian residents. he
told the police. he had not dared TO remain after
the crowd collected about the auto.
Detectives Wey and Trieber examining
witnesses Of the accident when Carlo approached
them The chauffeur asked the officers to step
around the corner, and after they had done so
he revealed his Identity 'c said he had tele-
phoned to Mr. Lee and had been advised by
him 10 surrender.
During the evening Mr.. Lee removed his auto
mobile from the scene of the accident. The
police had been forced to guard the machine.
rs the Italians in the ncighborhood threatened
to tear it 10 pieces.
Mrs Lee when informed of the accident last
evening said that she had found il necessary
to pass through the same quarter in the auto
mobile last week. The section was 80 crowded
with children size said that she resolved 10
avoid it In the future Carlo told the detectives
who arrested him that scores of children We're
in the street near where the Demarco child was
killed. and that they refused to get out of the
way of the machine.
While returning from the Sunday school i'm
St. MaIachy's Chapel. ir 10Th street. yesterday
afternoon Joseph McCarty seven years old, was
struck by a taxicab at 46th street and Eighth
avenue and instantly killed. Tho boy lived At
No. 2I1 West 10th street. a younger sister of
the lad Irene McCarty. six years old. was with
him at the time
The machine owned, according 10 the police.
by the New York Taxicab Company, was Oper
ated by Charles Kopp. OF No. sol West 10th
street Kopp Immediately after the accident
lifted the body Of the lad into the taxicab and
hurried to the West 47th street station. There
he was placed under arrest the charge of
homicide
Dr. Griffin, of Flower Hospital. who examined
the body of the McCarty boy in the station be-
fore its removal to the McCarty home, said that
the lads skull had been fractured. The police
say that the child ran directly in the pathway
OF the taxicab while he and his sister were play
ing tag"