The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-06
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Knocked IN WILD
Dash T0H0sP|TAL
Eknahss Into Pole While Hurrying
- st. Mary's With Boy Dying as
Result Of Clutohing Live Wire
ct Fourteenth and Bagg.
Policeman, Injured, Carries Little
Victim From Wreck To Hospital
and Life May Be Saved.

In q desperate effort to get dying
boy into st. Mary's hospital. three po-
Hes oficers were injured and the auto
patrol was wrecked. Monday morning
K Gerald Boston. the boy, lies in the
hospital. In q critical condition. Motor
cycle Patrolman Raymond, dazed
from his own injuries, staggered into
the institution with the boy In his
arms. He ran with the child from
Nacomb and st. Antoine-st, where
the police machine had skidded on the
wet pavement and crashed into troll
ley pole.
The Boston boy grabbed q live guy
wire hanging down at Bagg-st and
Fourteenth-ave. The motorman or a
passing Fourteenth car succeeded In
wrenching the boy loose. When the
next car, on which Motorcycle Patrol
man Fred Raymond was passenger,
came along, the boy was lying prone
in the wet grass and several men
were trying to bring htn back to coii-
seriousness.
Raymond picked the boy up, hur-
riedly gave q citizen instructions 10
can the auto patrol and then leaped
ON the car. The motorman put on
full speed and after driving for rev
blocks, they came to the office OF DR..
q. /. Mcclellan, No. 459 Fourteenth.
The boy was taken into the ofiice and
the physician had just started to ap-
ply restoratives, when the auto patron
dashed up. :,
Take him to a hospital at once"
were the doctors instructions.
The lads entire left side was burn
cd, particularly his neck, hands ana
mouth. He was suffering agonies and
Raymond held him on his lap while
the patrol started for st. Mary's hos
pital.
Signal Officer Charles Wagner was
at the wheel and Signal Officer Bar
ney Degen occupied the seat with him.
Wagner was using extra precaution
because of the wet pavements. He
was driving along the car tracks on
Macomb-st., and was holding the
machine In to prevent il from skid
ding. Near st. Antoine-st., the Dig
auto suddenly slipped on the tracks.
The front wheels skidded and Wag-
ner lost control.
The auto rode over the curb, taking
Il at single leap. With q crash, IL
smashed into trolley pole. The wind
shield smashed In and flying PARTICLES
OF glass showered the officers. The
entire front of the auto was splinter
cd to bits. The machine lay twisted
thing of steel and wood and both
Degen and Wagner lay on the ground
bleeding and unable to arise.
Raymond, too. felt the force OF the
shock. Still holding the little sufferer
In his arms, he picked his way out OF
the wreckage and started to run as
fas az he could to the hospital. The
surgeons there started to work I'M
mediately and 1t il barely possible
they will save the child's life.
The auto patrol Is out Of commits
sion at a time when its services are
needed most. 1t will not be in use
for several days.
Gerald Boston 10 eight years old and
n the son of William ]. Boston, fore
man at the Detroit Graphite Co., who
lives at No. $40 Fourteen-ave.
Signal Officers Degner and Wagner
are not seriously injured. Both are cut
about the face and hands.