The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-12-26
KILLED BY YOUNGSTERS AUTO
THREE YOUNG MEN or ORANGE
UNDER ARREST.
Chase After Machine TIL II Skidded and
Broke Down Police 80 y Speedometer
showed s. Miles Arrested Youths
sons OF Well known Orange Men.

ORANGE, ~ j. Dec 25-A boy was
killed and woman was hurt at Main and
Day streets early this afternoon by
high power auto in which were three
young men, The boy was carried,
fast to one of the lamps. nearly "A
| block. The car slowed up to make the
turn into Essex avenue and then sped
on. with Special Deputy Ovidio Binachi
in pursuit with II car he had pressed into
! service
Bianchi caught the youths many blocks
from the scene Of the mishap and turned
them over TO policeman. They will
spend the night in the police station and
will Toe arraigned in the morning before
/ Police Justice Joseph B. Bray.
The driver of the car was Daniel A.
/ Dugan. Jr. son Of District Court Judge
Daniel A. Dugan and nephew Of former
| County Judge Thomas A Davis OF this
city. Another Of those in the car was
James A Clark. Jr.. son of james A. Clark.
a real estate dealer. He also is a nephew
Of ex Judge Davis The third young man
! in the car was Louis g. Nolte son Of School
! Commissioner Henry Nolte of SO Parks
street. Dugan lives at II Ridge street
and Clark nj 10 High street,
! Chief Of Police George p Washer said
| to-day that he would make the complaints
| tomorrow morning Mansaughter will
he charged aginst Dugan, who is the owner
| of the car
The dead boy was Leo McDermott.
son Of Edward NJ. McDermott of IS Me-
! chanic street He was Ia years old.
AZ he was being hurried TO the Orange
Memorial Hospital in another automo-
| bile his father and mother sat down to
their Christmas dinner, wondering where
/ their son could be. With them they had
IA guest John r. Stanley Of Pacific
street. Newark a cousin Of the elder
/ McDermott.
Stanley remarked that he had little
appetite. for he had just seen an acci-
dent as he left the trolley car at Main
street TO transfer He described the
condition Of boy who had been struck
10y an automobile. the driver Of which
refused TO stop. 4 minute later McDer-
mott called out of the window to a group
Of bows with whom his son was in the
ha hit Of playing and asked If they knew
where Leo was.
Il don't know one Of the boys re-
piled. but heard he was hit bv an auto
mobile
McDermott hurried to the hospital
three blocks away, and made inquiries
He found that boy had been brought
in there who had nothing about him to
show who he was and they had not identi-
fed him. The only thing In hls pocket
was a IS cent piece McDermott had
given his boy quarter to buy some
ammunition for an air rife He was led
to the cot of the unconscious boy and he
recognized his son. He remained at the
hospital until the lads death at ?45
O'Clock.
At about O'Clock McDermott arrived
al police headquarters and asked whether
the driver Of the car had been arrested.
He was told that three men were behind
the bars He said that he had not vet
broken the news to his wife. who was
already nearly ready to collapse on ac-
count Of the severe illness of her mother.
Young Me Dermott' = Ak ull was fractured
and he had suffered internal injuries that
, alone might have proved fatal He was
picked up by one of the lamps OF the fast
, moving ear and half dragged and half
carried past the crossing Of Day street 10
, the front of the First Church az the west
corner Witnesses saw that the car was
max ing not less than forty miles an hour.
and Bianchi. whose attention was drawn
TO II a. II passed his store. just east Of the
crossing declared he was positive il was
going az the rate of fifty miles an hour
Il had only time 10 gasp Look at that =
said Bianchi, when the car reached the
crossing and hit two persons. first the
boy aud then the woman
The woman was Mise Sylvia Tichenor
. of - Wallace street She was taken TO
the hospital hv Policeman Read in the
same automobile with young McDermott,
, but il was found that she was only slightly
hurt The automobile had hit hor a
> glancing blow In her fall she knock ed
over another woman who was cross ing at
| the same time
Policeman Luke Riley stood at the cor
ner drug store and saw the bov and the
woman hit. He yelled TO hystanders 10
catch the number of the car and called
up headouarters Banchi hailed Or
stephen G. Lee of Fast Orange. told him
just what had occurred and mounted the
step Of the doctors car 70 give chase. As
, DR.. Lees car turned into Essex avenue
the fugitives had almost reached White
! street one block to the north. They tried
to turn west in the latter street but were
going too fast The car skidded and
! brought up with both rear wheels smashed
on the opposite side Of the street. The
men in IA" car leaped from it and ran
west in White street. Bianch chasing then,
on foot
They ran north again in Cleveland
street and az la, another block distant
BianChi caught them on the porch OF a
, private house. Policeman George Rob
4 eTIs, III answer 10 tne call tOr AID, naC
followed and the three young men were
. arrested
, Chief Of Police Washer inspected the
wrecked automobile and took from it the
, speedometer. which. ne said. regstere ec
fifty eight miles. That may mean that
, they were making that speed and it may
, not" said the chief. but I've got it to us,
: for what il is worth"
County Prosecutor Wilbur A. Mott
r directed that the young men be held ir
the police station over night and said b,
would arrange the matter OF bail in th'
, morning.
Young Dugan is 10 years old and Nolts
is the same age. Clark is IL. They wer,
never in any escapades before that ever
hordered on the serious Dugan was the
, owner recently Of frisky mustang from
the West which ran away with him ano
= came near badly hurting him, He ha,
| owned the car he drove this afternoon
for only few months, and he and his
mat Of to-day were in the habit OF ridins