Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27
THEN CHILD RUNS IN FRONT
Lads Playing in Street Are Saved,
However, From Almost
Certain Death.

NEW YORK, September 21.-The life Of
| a two-year-old girl was sacrificed just be-
| fore dusk last evening to save a crowd of
boys from serious injury or death as a
| fifty-horsepower automobile swept down
upon them at 109th street near I'd avenue,
where they were at play.
| The chauffeur sounded his horn and
| shouted, but the lads directly in the path
Of the car seemed paralyzed by fright.
Just few feet from the nearest boy,
Frank Carlo, the chauffeur, swung the
big machine around and headed straight
for the sidewalk. 1t was his intention to
crash into lamppost, wrecking the auto
mobile. OF course, and perhaps killing him.
self-but it was his only hope to save the
boys.
Instead Of hitting the lamppost the car
just grazed it and crashed into high iron
railing surrounding the courtyard Of a
private house, No. 241.
Marie De Marco, the baby. whose
mother and father were sitting on the
front steps Of No. $50. next door, was
playing on the sidewalk Before even a
warning could be shouted she walked into
the path Of the machine, which crossed
the tagging like a streak Of lightning. The
next moment the baby was crushed be-
tween the demolished cylinders of the auto
and the rail. Three other small children,
a boy and two girls, were struck by flying
wreckage, hurled down the cellar steps
and severely injured.
Fled for His Life.
One hundred and ninth street was in
stantly in an uproar. Carlo, who had
miraculously escaped the death he had
faced unflinchingly, flew from a crowd
clamoring for his life. not knowing that
he had risked death to save the boys.
Carlo is twentythree.> He is employed
by James s. Lee, a contractor of No.
l41 Broadway, who lives at No. $50 West
End avenue. Carlo, in the car. had been
moving slowly. pestered by a gang Of
mischievous youngsters, who began dart
ing in front Of the car and, to make him
stop, lying fiat on their stomachs twenty
and thirty feet in front Of the machine.
Carlo kept his temper and cautiously
zig-zagged from one side of the street
to the other until. disappointed at their
inability to feaZc him, the lads began
hurting stones at the machine from the
sidewalks. AS they were getting fresh
supply of ammunition from courtyard.
Carlo put on power to escape them,
thinking he had a clear road. Suddenly
a gang OF boys far down the street darted
into the street playing ball. all. with one
exception, with their backs to the ma
chine.
BY that time Carlo was speeding at a
high rate. and it was these boys whom he
tried to save. When he had crept from
the Wreckage of the car and made his
way through the Infatuated crowd he fed
to a drug store several blocks away, tele-
phoned to police headquarters to hurry
an ambulance to 1G9th street, and then
called up Mr.. Lee and told him what had
happened. His employer advised him to
give himself up TO the police without de-
lay.
Surrenders to the Police.
So while the neighborhood was still
ringing with cries Carlo went back and.
approaching Policemen Trieber and Wey
Of the East 1O4th street station, told them
who he was. They whispered to him not
to make known his identity and, escorted,
he went to the station house and deliv-
cred himself up.
An ambulance surgeon from Harlem
Hospital dressed the injuries of Louisa
Pretano, three; Tony Feruto, three, and
Dora Tompiano. seven, all of No. $50.
Dora's right arm was broken. and she
and the others had scalp wounds and
bruises. The dead baby was the only
child of Nincezzo and Adelina Marco
both of whom, with the baby's grand
mother and other relatives, saw the child