The evening world., 1912-04-09
WHO KILLED HER?
POLICE SEARCHFOR
) DRIVER Of AUTO
Victim of Speeding Car
Identified in Morgue To-
Day by a Friend.

somewhere In the city there 10 an au-
tomobils driver with the death OF a
woman on his conscience-if he has one.
Whatever part Of his makeup II 10 that
should mako aim know the difference It,.
tween RICH, and wrong probably needle q
stimulus. In search Of Il ne nigh, take
a trip to the Morsue at the foot Of Ea,,
! Twenty-slxth street.
There they will draw out q slab from
what looks like a great ice-box and on II
he will see the frail and broken body Of
an elderly woman. Her hair 10 gray. The
face II smashed almost beyond recoGni-
ton. The Morgue keeper will tell him
that four OF her ribs were crushed into
the lung and that there we're bruises on
her limbs TO show that she was run
over after tho automobile struck her.
II this sight isn't enough the driver
may lake his memory back 10 about go
o'clock on sunday night when no was
driving at top speed where Eighth and
st. Nicholas avenues !nterscct at One
Hundred and Twenty-frst street. lie
will hear again the Jolt as his Machine
struck the In the driving rain.
CARRIED VICTIM Aside AND
THEN SPED AWAY.
! He may also recall that he jumped
out and carried her to tho side OF n
building, leaving s,er there alone and
unattended to hurry back into his car
and escape In the darkness. Or It may
be that he jus, struck her and passed
on. Increasing his speed to MAKE his
escape all the more sure. leaving the
victim prone In the street 20 be looked
after by the casual passerby who was
out In the storm. Then he might think
OF how the womGn lay In the rain until
an ambulance came along and she was
taken to the hospital. where she died
} an hour later.
II may also be interesting to this
auto driver to know that his victim
was identified to-day. She was Kate
Eagan. nearly sixty years old. and her
present address II unknown. The Iden-
tiication was made by Mrs. Martin
Eayan Of No. cc West One Hundred
and Twenty-hrst street. friend.
though no relative.
Kate EaSan had been visiting Mrs.
Eagan on the night Of Easter Sunday.
She started for home at $40 o'clock. II
was At the corner. n half block away.
that she was run down. Mrs. Eagan
went to the Morcue and Identified the
body.
VICTIM or AUTO WAS HARD or
HEARING.
I'VE do not know where Miss Egnn
lived" said Mrs. Eagan to-day. she
had her little e%ccentricltIes and It was
one of them that she did not give us
her address. We knew her well when
we lived near each other In West
Thirty-sixth sire md when we came
uptown she would come TO visit us.
She was a little hard OF hearing and
for this reason I suppose did not hear
the automobile comlns Up over the
slippery pavements In the rain. She
was , good and devout m She
worked out and had been employed In
many OF the best hotels"
Miss Eagan will be buried from the
home OF her friend and the funeral will
he as II 1t were for a msnber Of the
family.
Lieut.. Brown. Of the West One Hun
dred and Twenty-Hfth street s.at.on de-
tec,ive bureau. said to-day that he had
no clue to the automobile that run Kate
Eagan down. lie did not have the
ma mes OF any persons who came to her
aid when she Vas hrN seen propped
against the building.