The midland journal., 1909-06-04
CHAUFFEUR CONVICTED
WILL GO TO PRISON
FROaa 0aE 10 TWENTY YEARS.
Chauffeur Was Speeding A 60
Horsepower Car Down Grade LIN
New York When The Machine
Struck And Killed Ingvaard Trim-
Bile. A Youth-Victim Dragged A
Block And His Skull Fractured
Darragh Fled To Texas And His
Companion Disappeared.

New York Especially Reckless
drivers of automobiles received a sig
nal warning Friday when William
Darragh, the chauffeur who. drove
the automobile that killed Ingvaard
Trimble, 13year-old boy, at One
Hundred and Eighteenth Street and
Morningside Avenue on March IL
last, was convicted of manslaughter
in the first degree by jury before
Judge Mulqueen, in General Sessions.
Darragh listened quietly to the ver-
dict and then was taken to the
Tombs to await sentence. The PEN
atty for the crime of which he stands
convicted is from one to 20 years
imprisonment. Capt. Peter c. Hams,
who was convicted of manslaughter
in the first degree. got an indeter-
inmate sentence of from eight to 16
years.
Darragh, who is 21 years old, has
been on trial here for several days.
His. killing of the Trimble boy at
tracted much attention because after
his machine had knocked down the
boy and crushed him he put on ex-
ira speed and fed, leaving his vic
tim to die in the street He lost
his derby hat during his flight and by
means of this his identity was es-
tablished. He was traced to Texas,
where he was arrested.
Darragh's conviction is the first
under the, amended section of the
law for murder, which reads, in
part:
"The killing of a human being by
an act imminently dangerous to 9TH
ers, and evincing a depraved mind
regardless of human life, although
without a premeditated design, is
punishable by a verdict of murder
in the first degree"
s'Going Like Steam Engine"
According to the evidence given
at the trial Darragh, on the night
his machine killed Trimble, was
trying out" a 60-horsepower car be-
longing to Charles e. Force, of 40
Wall Street. There had been some
small trouble with the car and Dar-
ragh after making adjustments wish
ed to test the machine on a hill. He
chose the incline on Morningside
Avenue leading up to One Hundred
and Sixteenth Street and began the
test after picking up H. A. Brown,
a friend of his, who disappeared aft
er Trimble was nit. and whom the
police have not been able to find.
Ingvaard Trimble was playing tag
with other boys at the corner of One
Hundred and Eighteenth Street, told
the machine raced along the avenue.
According to the testimony of his
playmates. he started to run across
the street when the automobile was
over a block away, but was hit up
by the automobile. His body caught
against the front of the automobile
and was carried over 100 feet be-
fore it dropped to the street.
II was it, Charles Picketts,
eight years old, of 405, West One
Hundred and Eighteenth Street, told
the jurors, land Ingvaard was trying
to get me to tag him. l chased him
almost to the corner when the big
automobile came along so fast we
didn't see it. 1t hit Ingvaard. and l
didn't see him any more for block.
Then saw his body come out from
the back of the automobile"
''Was the automobile going fast?"
Judge Mulqueen asked the little fell
low.
"Just like steam engine" replied
the boy. ''It was going awful fast.
Young Picketts and his compan-
ions agreed Darragh had not blown
the horn of the anto or shouted a
warning.