Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1912 — Excited Woman Reports a Fierce Accident [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Excited Woman Reports a Fierce Accident

BUFFALO, N. Y.—The presence of a large crowd about an automobile ■at Main and G&rlten streets at 5:30 o’clock the other gfternoon was telephoned to police station No. 3 by a 'woman. “It must have been a fierce accident," said she. “There’s a man under the car and he looks to be dead." Her description aroused Desk Serigeant Healy. "Clear the decks for action," roared toe, stepping from the telephone booth. “Send the reserve here quick, Pike!” s “What’s up?” asked Pike. "You’ll hear me telling the reserves. Get them on the Jump,” answered Healy., 'Td like to be a captain or a lieutenant for one minute and I’d sit on you," muttered Pike. But he did as he was told and rounded up Policemen Powers and Winters, who stood at attention In front of Healy In less than a minute. “There’s a man killed at Main and Carlton streets," said Healy, "and get there as quick as your mortal legs or e street car will take you." The two policemen got a street car at Main and Chippewa streets, it being the quickest means of locomotion that is furnished in the third precinct. “It’s a tough world," remarked Healy to Pike. “I suppose that man was going home to his supper or dinner, whichever he called it.”

Pike Inquired what had killed him and Healy Yeplied that it was an automobile. “All I know is that a woman says hp’B under the car,” said Healy to an inquiry of Pike for particulars. Powers and Winters returned to the station house after the lapse of about thirty minutes. They were passing on to the reserve room without even a glance at Healy. “What did you find, boys?” asked he. “There was a fellow and his car stopped at the top of the hill and he was- under the car fixing up the works,” said Powers. "It was an old, one-cylinder affair with a bum lamp, i asked him what was the matter and he said that was what he was trying to find out. He 'thought the car was likely to start any second and it did while Winters and we mefe scattering the crowd." “You didn’t get his name," said Healy. , “We didn’t ask," said Powers.