New-York tribune., 1909-03-12
GIVES LIFE SAVING SON
MRS. LEOPOLD B4UM4NN
KILLED BY AUTO.
Struck While Dragging Boy from
Path of Speeding Car When
Brake Fails to WOrk.

Amelia Baumann. forty-five years old wife OF
seopoId Baumann, q member of the firm that
oUns string of furniture stores throughout the
citv. sacrificed her life last night in preventing
her fve-year-old son, Julius from being run
oyer by an automobile at 241st street and White
Plains avenue. The Bronx. In dragging the boy
out Of the path Of the speeding machine Mrs,
Barnaann was struck and run over Her skull
was fractured she received internal injuries and
numerous contusions and bruises and died be-
fore the arrival of an ambulance surgeon from
the Fordham Hospital
The automobile was owned by Tully c. Estee,
1, -four merchant with offices at No 112 Broad
street who with his wife. occupied the tonneau,
The car was driven by Frederick z. Hubbard
NJ No l09 stephens avenue, Mount Vernon, the
chauffeur Hubbard was locked up at the
Wakefield police station, a technical charge
of homicide. He said that the brakes OF the
machine failed TO work promptly.
J,li,Is Baumann received several contusions
,nd slight scalp wound, but was taken home
Cor treatment in the ambulance that was sum-
-,oned from Fordham Hospital.
Mrs Baurnann left her home at No. 1l9
Overlook avenue Mount Vernon. shortly before
6 o'clock last night 10 accompany her husoahd
home from one OF the BaGmans furniture stores
at Third avenue and 152d street and stopped at
.he corner where the accident occurred TO wait
for a southbound car.
As the car approached, and as Mrs Baunahn
and her son stepped into the roadway to sig
nal the uotorman. they were suddenly dazzled
bv the brilliant lights Of automobile Whlch
swung out from behind the car, going III the
same direction and bore down on them
1mne1led bv the protecting instinct of a
mother. Mrs. Baumann jumped between her son
and the onrushing machine. which struck and
Ia
.,o,c3,g blow ard though thrown several feet
zas not seriously injured
AZ the automobile approached the woman
.-s hoy Mr. and Mrs. Estee saw the danger anu
.oad II, in the tonneau. shouting cries c1 warn
,ng The chauffeur applied the brake almost 81
the same instant that the machine swung ou'
rroro tehind the trolley car but the momentum
o4 the machine was so great that the car Neii'
twenty feet beyond the spot where MIS- fau-
mann was struck before II was orouSH' ~ q
standstiH. .-,,o+,,. ae soon
>. came 70 q stop. and hurried back to give
,ba. aid they could 10 the injured persons
With tie help Of passengers from the uolies
car Mr.. Estee and Hubbard carried Mrs fau-
mann and her son into nearby drug store
patroIrnan Johnson Of the Wakefield station
ssn, = car for an ambulance to the Foruraih
Hospital but before It arrived Dr. PAU eTliies
pie. Of No. 649 East 220th street ana " a
Favse-. Of No I32 West ID street. Mount YER
non responded to telephone summons
Mrs. Baumann was unconscious ana dleu Z
few minutes later, before the arrival OF 'he
ambulance surgeon.
The body Of Mrs. Baumann was taken 10 the
Wakefield station house, where II was seen DH
the husband who had hurried to the scene ol
,be accident Coroner Mcdonald later gave an
order for the removal OF the body TO the Bau-
mann home.