Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1911 — Compromises With Auto Owner For Child That Burned to Death. [ARTICLE]

Compromises With Auto Owner For Child That Burned to Death.

Readers of The Republican will remember the frightful accident that resulted in the-burning to death of the* 2-year-old child of Mrs. Frye, near Kentland, several months ago and of the rumors surrounding the night auto ride that resulted in thp death of the little girl and the destruction of the auto. It was reported that Mrs. Frye was using Egan as a friend in making a hasty exit from Goodland, and it seems queer that his responsibility could have been such as to make him liable notwithstanding the intoxicated condition he was in, but George W. Kassabaum and A. K. Sills, Jr., two young lawyers of MonticeUo,. took up her case in behalf of her husband and effected a settlement according to the following article from the MonticeUo Democrat: Attorneys G- W. Kassabaum and A. K. Sills, Jr., went to Kentland Monday and effected settlement in the case of Thomas J. Frye vs. William J. Eagan for damages for the death of little Dorothy Frye, the two-year-old daughter of the plaintiff. The case grew out of an accident which occurred last August, when Eagan met Mrs. Frye and her two children in Goodland one night and started to take them to Kentland in an automobile. On the way the automobile was run off the road and upset in a ditch and burned up. Eagan, the woman and one child escaped unhurt, but the baby was burned to death. Eagan claimed that the accident was unavoidable, but persons who saw them start assert that he was drunk. » The settlement effected was very satisfactory to the plaintiff- and his attorneys.