The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-28
AUTO CRUSHEs OUT
BOYS LIFE AT
DEADLY CORNER
Arthur Tom, Caddy Employed bf
Detroit Golf Club, Third 70 lEset
Death at Woodward and wsrssa
Within Two Months
Driver of Machine, Employed ~
Morgan 6 Wright, Held BY Police
Woman Is Seriously Injured.

Arthur Tom, Il years old, Of No. f8e
Heidelbergst.. fell from his bicyci8
when startled by the approach OF q
big Morgan & Wright AUTOMOBILES
truck, at Woodward and Warren-aYes..
Saturday morning. and was crushed u
death under the truck His head wan
crushed like an egg she'll while his
right leg was torn and manglcd.
Death was probably instantaneous.
Young Tom, who was on his way 70
the Detroit Golf club, HamiIton-blvd.
and the Six-MiIe road, where he
worked Saturdays as caddy. wax
identified through some caddy checks
of the golf club, numbered 213. when
the check numbers and description
Of the lad were given to the golf club
officials. Meanwhile. the body lay for
hours In the morgue at Harper hos
pital, unclaimed and unidentified.
II was nearly o'clock before the
lads mother heard OF the accident. and
she was Frustrated by the shock when
the news was broken to her. A neigh
Dor hurried TO the morgue to claim
the body.
Young ronn was riding his bicycle
north on Woodward-ave., Just north
OF Warren-aye., and In front OF the big
new garage In process OF construction
there, when his attention was attract
ed by the approach OF the heavy Nor
gan e Wright truck, loaded with
tires, and driven by Henry Dietz, No
1886 Vermont-aye. He turned, 70 sea
the truck close behind him, lost con.
troll of his bicycle, and fell under the,
heavy wheels of the truck.
DietZ Immediately stopped his
truck. and several persons rushed 70
the lads assistance. The janitor or
the Maccabee temple, across the
street, picked up the mangled form.
but life was extinct Instead OF allow
ing the body TO lie at the scene or the
accident until the coroner could reach
the spot, an automobilist started with
the remains to Harper hospital. Mean
while, the hospital ambulance, which
had been called met the auto, and
took the body into the hospital
morsue. The coroner was not called
until hours afterward, when Clerk De
Laurier, for Coroner Burgess, viewed
the remains, and decided to leave
them where they were until night.
when they would be removed to the
county morgue.
Dietz went to police headquarters to
give his statement, and was held.
pending an investigation, though be
insisted that the accident was nm
avoidable, as the lad fell under the
truck.
Young Tom Is the third person
killed by an automobile at that corner
within the last two months. Howard
Smith, young student OF the Central
High school, from Crosse Pointe, was
run down and killed while alighting
from a car. Mrs. Emma Wood, emerR~
ing from the temple OF the Order of
the Eastern Star, was killed by an au-
tomobile, only few feet north OF the
spot where Tom met his death.
The lads father Is a member OF the
| firm of Tom Bros, contractors, OF No.
1879 Heidelberg-st.
| Only the mother was at home when
| the belated news Of the tragedy
reached the house, shortly before &
o'clock. Neighbors hurried to her as
sistance when they learned the news4
Aged Woman Run Down.
Run down by an automobile nc
Broadway and Wltherell-st., Saturday
morning, Mrs. Anna Davis, 7S years
old, No. 40 Abbott-st., Is In Red Cross
hospital, unconscious, and II Ia feared
she will die.
DR.. w. G. HASTE. No. $50 Twelfth-
ST., was the driver of the machine.
DR.. HASTE told the police that he was
turning on Broadway from WitherelI-
St. when a taxicab belonging to the
Yellow Bonnet Taxicab Co. also turned
to go south on Broadway. To avoid q
collision, DR.. HASTE says he turned
his machine up on the curbing.
The aged woman was walking along
the street, and before the doctor could
prevent 1t, he had struck her. He Inn
lmediately alighted to render what aid
he could. The Detroit ambulance was
summoned, and DR.. HASTE went TO Red
Cross hospital with the victim.
In the hospital, II is said her con-
dition Is very serious.