The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-26
Two Y ear-Old Toddles to Death Under Machine
at Second and Salem Avenues Last
Night, While Mother Watches.
LARSEN NOW FACES MANSLAUGHTER
Walter Becker, Passenger Beer Truck, Captured
When He Attempts to Escape After Ac-
cident Last Evening.

the bell of the ice cream cart and
darted out in front of the oncoming
truck. It's clothing snagged on part
of the truck and it was dragged under
the machine for ID feet before the
cloth tore lose and it fell to the pave
ment dying.
Death Follows Accident.
The mother of the child, who had
come to the door just in time to see
her baby being dragged along under
the truck, rushed~out and gathered up
the unconscious form. Larsen, who
had brought his truck to a stop 253
feet from where he hit the child, rush
ed back, glanced at the baby and dart
ed into a house where he phoned the
police and the Hansen people for an
ambulance. Meanwhile, Roy Miles, of
Balm station, had stopped his machine
and was rushing the mother and the
child to the Kenosha hospital. The
child died less than 20 minutes after
being admitted from basel skull
fracture
Emil M4issner, sc 7retary of police,
arrived just as Larsen was coming out
Of the house after telephoning. Just
after he had started to tell how the
accident happened, Meissnor smelled
the liquor on his breath and placed
him under arrest. A search was i'm
mediately made of the neighborhoDd
for Becker, a draughtsman at the Nash
plant, who was on vacation and was
riding with Larsen at the time. He
was picked up further down Salem
avenue while he was attempting to
put the most possible distance be-
tween himself and the scene of the ac-
cident in the least possible time.
Men Are Questioned.
Later in the evening Coroner Tru-
man T. Parker, together with Thad
Logan, chief of police, district attor-
ney Symmonds and secretary Meissner,
questioned the men separately. Lar
sen admitted having had one drink, and
named Singer as the man who sold it
to him. Officers were Immediately
sent out to bring him in. He was
promptly identified by Larsen and
placed under arrest.
In his statement Lay>en said he
thought he stopped the truck in 40
feet, but admitted that he was con-
fused at the time. He said that he
had left Kenosha earlier in the day
with a load of near-beer. The first
stop was at William Spitzman's at
New Munster, then to Twin Lakes
where deliveries were made at Peter
Neidle and John Moeller's places. On
the return trip they dropped in at
Spitzman's place again an dthen went
on to Truesdell where they stopped at
Singer and Lundin's.
Driver Celebrates Birthday.
In the barroom, Larsen stated that
it was his 23rd birthday, whereupon
Becker offered to buy a drink. The
three, including Singer, had round
of ''moon," and then, according to
Beckers statement, the proprietor
bought a round. This is practically
the only Discrepancy in the two state
ments fer, according to Larsen, he was
out putting oil and water into his
truck when the second drink was had.
Larsen said that the truck was in
perfect condition, and that the brakes /
were functioning properly. He said
that he had made several tests on the
brakes and found that he could bring
the machine to a stop from a speed
of Is miles in about 20 feet. The
machine, he said, would not run over
25 miles an hour. At this rate, he said,
he drove until he came to the edge of
town where he cut the speed to what
he considered Is miles. He was unable
to tell the exact rate of the machine
because the speedometer was out of
commission.
"We drove east on Salem avenue I'M
til we reached Fourth avenue Il think
when | saw child on the pavement on
my right. When / was 20 or rs feet
from it,when he ran right toward
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