The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-04-30
son KILLED, he KILLS DRIVER
ITALIAN FATHER TAKES 4
SUMMARY REVENGE.

wagon and was Fatally Hurt-Poiice.
man Was Disposed 10 Let the Driver
60. when the Father Began shooting.
An Italian sitting yesterday afternoon
in an upper window Of tenement house
on Fast Forty eighth street saw a brewery
wagon run over his little boy. He waited
to see the little boy carried of bleeding
to q drug store. and then when police
man seemed disposed to let the driver go
he ran down stairs. pushed his way
thorugh a crowd Of onlookers and shot
| the driver dead.
William Krugman. who lived with his
wife and four children at PSI Bedford ave-
nue., Brooklyn. was delivering beer for
the James Everard Brewing Company
in the Italian colony which fills the dis
trict east Of Second avenue between Forty
seventh and Fiftieth streets. He turned
west from First avenue into Forty eighth
street at about $50 o'clock.
! The street was full OF children They
we're playing in the street. and Krugman
had to steer his single horse carefully in
order to avoid running over them. He
chirruped to them as his horse trotted
west, and the youngsters scattered. But
when he WAS in front OF SAG there was a
group Of especially little Italians. and he
had to slow down in order to let them by
One OF them was Paul Bongiovi. q three
year-old in kilts.
Little Paul when he saw the others
running tried to get away also. He
jumped aside 80 that the horse didn {
strike him. but somehow he turned in
half circle 80 that he brought up against
the middle OF the wagon. II may be that
the child was turning back toward his
own house. which was on the far side OF
1.-THE wagon from where he had been play
ing.
His head struck the body Of the wagon
and he fell forward between the front
and back wheels. Krugmsn didn't see
him and couldn't have done anything il
he had seen him. The heavy tire passed
over Paul's stomach and left him lying
on the pavement.
] Krugman. hearing shouts from the
Italians on the sidewalk and in the tene.
ment house windows, turned around
He saw what his wagon had done. He
pulled over to the side OF the street and
stopped. Then he jumped OF his seal
no that he could find out how badly the
youngster had been hurt.
Little Pauls mother had been sitting
with her husband in the window OF theil
rooms on the top floor Of a35. When shs
saw what bad happened to her boy she
IN NJ letSSoestiEet, gathered hin
up in her Ehawl and took him OF TO Col
Ilins's drug store. which is at Forty eighth
street and First avenue. The father stayed
where he was. waiting to see what woult
happen.
When Krugman saw the mother OF tn,
boy gather him up he walked back t.
his horse. climbed to his seat and startec
=, to turn around. He wanted to follow &c
the drug store to zee how things were
going with the little boy.
He did not get far toward First avenue
Italians came running from the tenement
houses and caught the reins of his horse
! Krugman couldn't stir. Some OF those
, who swept toward him shouted, xii
him. XIII him." A boy with more Of 6
head than the rest set on full tilt fol
Second avenue to look for a policeman
, He found Patrolman Bertram. Bertran
, ran back with the boy A great GROVE
. was closing in on the German.
On the north side Of the street. the side
which is overlooked by the Bongiovi tene
ment. the crowd was so dense that th'
policeman couldn't force his way through
On the other side he found an easier pas
IA ge and worked alongside the wagon.
Krugman had got OF his seat and wal
4 standing with foot on hub talking
3 to the crowd When he looked across
his horses back and saw the policeman =
I. hat he turned around and started to tel
him how the accident happened,
z Il have children of my own" he said
l -and didn't mean to kill this little kid
' 1t was an accident and couldn't help it
The policeman took out his notebool
. and began to ask Krugman questions
= The crowd was pressing closer and wal
2 more and more violent. Bertram pu
q Krugman through the usual catechism
: asking where he lived. his age and tn
Q other details.
: Presently he said so that the Grove
k could understand. -Oh, this is all right
You didn't mean to hurt the kid. Wei
}, drive around to the drug store. Needn'
9 worry. ! won't arrest YOU"
e Al that the crowd set up howl. Tn
n father had gone in search Of a revolvs,
n BY the time he had found it KrIgma
r was about to get up ON his seat. follow
d ing the policeman's directions. Bon
q giovi came running out Of the door c
! his tenement broke his way throug
O the press and coming closely up to tn
J. truckman fired at him. Krugman's fac
Q was turned toward the policeman an
y the bullet caught him full on the lei
r temple. He dropped to the pavemer
and the Italian kept shooting at hin
He fred last shot in the air. which Use
}. up all the cartridges he had.
Bertram jumped across the wagon an
!. made for the Italian. He ran into III
door OF sH with the policeman closel
v after. Bongiovi tried doorknobs in tn
It hallway. but couldn't find a door tina
/, would give, The policeman found hi,
Is in the end of the corridor ready TO fgh
1t Bertram opened up his scalp with hlo
W from the butt end OF his pistol and le
IT him out to the street. The Italians. SCI