Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-13
BOY CRUSHED To
DEATH BY AUTO;
OWNER IS HELD
Frank VarchaI Dies on Way to
Hospital in Arms of His Aunt
After Being Run Down by
Auto of New York Man.

Crushed beneath five-passenger
touring car at State street and Pu-
laski avenue, about o'clock yester-
day afternoon, seven-year-old Frank
Varchal, of 1853 Parker street, died in
the arms of an aunt, his godmother,
as he was being rushed to the city
hospital. The child's collar bone was
fractured and three ribs broken.
Henry Killiard, fifty-nine years old,
an official of the st. Louis and San
Francisco railroad, living in Eighty
fifth street, New York city, owner of
the machine, and Walter Bender,
twenty-seven years old, of 308 East
| Eighty-fifth street, were placed under
arrest by Patrolman Gutowski and
held on technical charge of homi-
eide. Mr.. Killard was paroled early
last night and the chauffeur is await
' ing arraignment in the lookup. Jo-
seph E. Stricken, has been retained by
Mr.. Killard, who is friend of the
attorney, and the chauffeur will prob
! ably be admitted to bail some time
today.
The five-passenger car was a
| Locomobile and contained Mr.. and
Mrs, Killard, their niece and the
chauffeur. According to the chauf-
! lfeur, he was driving the party from
Allenhurst and on his way to the
Staten Island ferry. He says that
near Pulaski avenue in State street
he saw crowd around street car,
where a man had fallen from the
conveyor, and because of this slack
ened his speed to eight miles an
hour.
He says that young Varchal sud
denly ran out from the crowd in
front of the machine, and that he
Immediately threw on the emergency
brake. 1t was too late, however, and
t, . child was struck either by the
radiator or the end of one of the
fore springs. The chauffeur thought
one of the front wheels of the ma
chine tEen passed over the body be-
fore the car came to a stop. Accord
ing to witnesses the machine passed
entirely over the boy. The chauffeur
backed the car and picking up the
boy carried him to the saloon of
Anton Gadek, at 1872 State street, to
which place DR.. M. S. Meinzer was
summoned, and from whence the
police were notified. DR.. Meinzer
ordered the child taken to the hos
pital, and Patrolman Gutowski ac-
companied Mrs. Mary Daniel, an
aunt of the boy, whom she had
raised, in the ambulance. Near the
Lehigh Valley bridges in State street
the boy, who had continued con-
scious, was overcome, his head
dropped and he expired The am
bulance then took the dead body to
tn home Of the boys father, Simon
Varchal. DR.. Meinzer, who was fol-
lowing the ambulance in his automo-
bile to the hospital, pronounced the
child dead The boy had been raised
by his aunt following the disappear
ance of his mother some years ago,
and WAS the only child of Simon
Varchal.
Joseph E. Stricken has applied for
hearing for the chauffeur before
Recorder Pickersgill, which will be
given as soon IS the prosecutors Of
flee makes arrangements to represent
the state at such hearing. No one has
applied for bail for the driver before
the hearing.
The funeral for the dead boy Will
be held tomorrow afternoon. The
services will be conducted at O'Clock
at ST. Stephens Polish Catholic
church, and burial will follow in st.
Stephens cemetery.