The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-06-02
BOY, 5, KILLED
BY AUTO DRIVEN
BY DALLAS HAYS
Little Paul Baker Crushed as
He Attempts to Cross
the Street.
MACHINE GOING SLOW
WHEN IT HIT CHILD
Grief Of Victims Parents Makes
Father Of Young Hays
Weep.

independence street, was knocked
down and killed almost instantly about
, o'clock yesterday afternoon at indie,
! pcndence and Pacific streets by ar
automobile driven By Dallas Hays
17-year-o!d son of JUICE Edward D
Hays.
The boy was running across the
street at the corner end stepped in
front of the car. When the machine
was stopped, the right front wheel
still vas resting on part of the boys
body. The car was rolled backward
and the child picked up and carried
to three drug stores on Broadway by
the occupants of the machine before a
physician could be located.
When he was placed on the Operat-
ing chair at the office Of DR.. r. p.
Dalton, Broadway and Main street
the boy was pronounced Gead.
A corOner's jury last night was
sworn in and viewed the body at the
undertaking parlors of the Southeast
No. Furniture & Undertaking Co. in
Haari@. Testimony at the coroner's
inquest will be heard this morning at
Q o'clock in the police courtroom at
the police station.
Young Hays was driving his fathers
machine and was accompanied by Earl
Mcbride, of 7 North Painter avenue.
Hays was taking Mcbride to his hcme.
In order to reach the Mcbride home
it is Necessary to drive to Painter
avenue over independence street, lead
ing from Pacific street.
Hays met Mcbride on Broadway and
drove from there south on Pacific. He
passed by Independence street, and as
Mcbride told him he had passed his
street, Hays drove a few blocks south
on Pacific street before turning his
car to return north to Independence.
On the way back to independence
street they passed Judge Frank Kelly.
who was sitting on the porch at his
home on Pacific street. The Judge
said the boys were driving at very
moderate rate of speed.
Hays followed the course of traffic
at the crossing over the c. G.. & y.
railroad track. Owing to the fact that
the street has been torn up at that
point, all vehicles cross the railroad
Il little on the west side of Pacific
street.
He then turned his machine west on
Independence to drive to McBride's
home. He was going very slowly on
account of the rough condition Of the
street and because of the fact that he
was making a turn, he said.
The first that he saw of the Baker
child, he said, was when the lad was
squarely in front of his car and it
was impossible to avoid hitting him.
He applied the brakes and brought
the car to stop within a few feet.
The Mcbride boy said the Baker
child was crossing the streets from
the northeast corner to the southwest
corner in a diagonal direction, and
that the boy had been standing at the
side of the street with his back in the
direction from which the car was APP
preaching, and when the car was close
to him the boy ran quickly into the
street to get across.
Mcbride lcaped from the car when
the child was struck. He ran to the
front end to drag the boy from under
the machine and called to Hays, say
ing that the front wheel still pinned
the boy to the ground.
Hays released the brake, which he
had Immediately applied. and the car
rolled back from the boys body. Nc
Bride stopped down to lift the lad into
the automobile.
Barney Klasing and Will Zapf, both
carpenters, who had been working
nearby and were on their way home
from work, ran to aid Mcbride in
picking the lad up and placing him in
the car. They got into the car with
Mcbride and the four started at once
for Broadway.
The Baker child had been accom-
panied across the street by his older
sister, Alpha, s years old, who ran to
the automobile as her brother was
lifted into the car by the men. and
she attempted to get into the car also.
The men drove off without the little
girl, who ran after the car for half
a block.
Hays drove the party to the Finncy
drug store on Broadway, where DR..
J. W. Berry has an Office. He was not
in and HAYS drove TO the cf.ce Of Dr..