Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-16
LED TO DEATH BY
CAMPAIGN BUTTON
Running After CellulOid Badge
Boys Life Is Crushed
Out by Car.
TRAGIC OCCURRENCE
WITNESSED BY MOTHER
Twelve Year-Old Lad Had Been
Playing in Front of
His Home.

Trying 10 retrieve a campaign but
ton, which had rolled TO the trolley
tracks, 1~2-year-old David Feldmar
was crushed beneath d w~est-bound
car on the South Orange avenue line
as his mother watched from the win
dow of his fathers tailor shop, IA
Hamburg place. He died at st
James's Hospital early today.
As was his custom. David returned
from school yesterday, left his books
at his home, IL Hamburg place, and
then hurried out to play.
Whom he reached the street he
found half a dozen of his young
friends pitching campaign buttons, so
he Joined the game. Young Feldman
was an expert at that particular kind
of boyhood gambling and soon had
won a handful of the celluloid badges.
He was taking these from his left
hand and casting them against the
curbstone with his right when one OF
his companions struck the hand con-
tanning the buttons and they fell to
the street. David saw n of them
roll out to the car tracks and ran
after II. Just then a west -bound car
came along.
Didn't Hear Approaching Car
The boy was leaning over the track
so -engrossed in his search that he did
not hear the rumble Of the wheel nor
The warning bell which the motorman
was frantically pounding. The fen
der of the car struck David and upset
him and then pushed him along In
front for about twenty feet. Then the
boy rolled off the track and h front
wheels on the right-hand side passed
owe his legs.
Tho car was emptied of its passen-
eers in a few seconds and they, with
4 score OF men, who came running up,
tried to lift the car. When their at
tempts we're unsuccessful, the motor
mar backed the car away and the
how was picked up. His left leg wa.
almost severed and the right leg
badly crushed.
DIR. George r. Corrigan, who was
passing In his automobile, applied a
4orniuuet to each Of the rushe limos
and then drove the boy to st. James,
Hospital. The left leg was amputateo
soon after the boy arrived at h hos
pital. -.
Loyal Tompkins, II years old, OF u
Chadwick avenue, is at st. Bar
nabag's Hospital in a critical condi-
tion with a fractured skull as a re-
suit of being struck by an automobile
AT Chadwick and Avon yes
terday afternoon.
Auto HUNS Down Loyal.
Like young Feldman, Loyal hao
Just returned from school. He Kissed
his mother and ran QUITO Avon v
nue.. where he saw some of his boy
friends playing. AS he crossed the
street to join them he was true by
an automobile driven by Ernest Boer-
ger. OF 2s Myrtle avenue, ~1rvington,
The boy was knocked down and
struck his head on the pavement,
fracturing his skull. One of the from
vheels of the machine passed over
the boys left leg, f%racturing the bone.
MIR. Boerger stopped his car, and
with his passenger, Frank Weingarth,
of 3S sharon avenue, %1rvington, drove
the boy to the hospital. Then Mr..
Boerger surrendered himself at the
sixth precinct. He was allowed to GO
after giving his name. DR.. William
Minningham, of 44S High street, oper-
ated on the boy and announced today
that he win probably recover
Terrence Boog, IA years old. of 19S
South Eleventh street, was hit by a