The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
BULLETIN.

AT E:3U O'CLOCK THIS dICeInOOh
the corOner's inquest which is be-
ing held in connection with the
killing of nine-year-Old Jennie
Diamanti in motor accident Mon
day evening, was postponed until
o'clock Thursday morning. Mean
while a post norton examination
of the body of the dead girl is to
be held to determine the exact
nature of the injuries which caused
her death.
Just before $3.50 O'Clock this af-
ternoOn Harold Harbaugh, driver of
the truck, was arraigned in the mu-
nicipal court on a charge of man
slaughter. Upon his plea of not
guilty he was bound over until May
10Th for a preliminary hearing. His
bonds were set at $1,000 which
we're furnished Immediately and he
was released under bond.
"School, Go Slow, eight miles an
our" reads the warning at the corner
Rowland avenue and JENNIE street.
And at this corner at 5:15 o'clock Mon
lay afternoon a little school girl,
emmy Diamonti, met her almost in
tant death under the wheels of an
automobile truck driven by Harold
Harbaugh, 705 Garden street.
According to some witnesses Har-
baugh was going at high rate of speed
when he struck the child, who was
crossing the street, and dragged her
body from the southeast corner to the
northwest corner before he was able
to stop.
The truck climbed the curb and
broke a front wheel before it came to
a standstill Another automobile, a
green racer, came to assist, and Har-
baugh took the child, speeding with
her to the Kenosha hospital.
Jenny, the nine-year-old daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Diahonti of $50
Garden street, died few minutes lat
er at the hospital. HaTbaugh was taxi
en- by police officers to the city lookup
to await the verdict of the coroner's
jury this morning and the investiga-
tion of the district attorneys Office.
Bitter Against Speeders,
Witnesses. of the accident, among
them Eugene Madrigrani, were bitter
today in their denunciation of young
men whom they declare make Rowland
avenue a speedway and who pay no
attention whatever to the school sign
warning them of the danger to child
life. Madrigrani declared that Har-
baugh was driving at an excessive rate
Of speed when he struck the child and
that Jenny was crossing the street at
the proper point and not running.
Harbaugh, when questioned at the po-
lice office, was still dazed from the
tragic happening and said that at the
time his car struck the child he did
not know how fast he was going.
Harbaugh, who is twenty-one years
old, was driving a Dodge truck for his
father and was going north on How
land avenue. Jenny had been playing
in some pits to the west Of the ave-
nue. where road members were fixing
the street. 1t was after the FIVE o'clock
whistles had sounded that she left the
holes, so fascinating to the playing
child, and hurried to her home on
JENNIE street, perhaps remembering
that her mother would want her to
tend baby brother while she got sup
per, or want her to go to the stoEe, or
perhaps moved by a royal outdoor
hunger of her own for supper, the
smiling table and welcoming home
folks. But little Jenny never came
home. Fate met her at the corner.
Evening" said Sappho, thou bring
est all that bright morning scattered;
thou bringest the child the goat and
the lamb back to it's mother" But
evening fell on the Diamonti home,
and the oldest little girl had not been
gathered back to the others. All play
days and all home-comings had been
cut off from her forever, within sight
of school sign reading, "Go slow"
Man in Window Sees Tragedy.
Eugene Madrigrani, so Rowland ave-
nue., whose meat market is on the
southeast corner Of Rowland avenue
and JENNIE street, was at the window
of his store few feet from the scene
Of the accident when it occurred, and
had sharp view of the scene.
Jenny was crossing Rowland ave-
nue. on Jenne street coming from the
west" he said. 81 Saw her as / went
TO the window to get some green pep
pers. | had just picked up the vege-
ables when the accident happened. The
child was walking fast, but not run
ming. From the south came a car go
ing at a high rate of speed. know
how fast, for l drive a car myself. and
I have noticed before the reckless
reckless way some drivers, most of
them younger men, go on Rowland
avenueg
Body Dragged Fifty Feet.
"While Jenny was a few feet from
the curb outside my window the car
struck her, She was dragged over to
the northwest corner, where the car
climbed the curb before the driver
could stop it. l ran over to pick up
the child, and it was plain that she
was nearly dead. She had been dragged
distance of over fifty feet"
Madrigrani pointed bitterly to the
traffic sign at the corner Of Rowland
and Jenne street, just a few feet from
the spot where the child met her
death It was warning that a school
was close by and that eight miles an
hour was the limit.