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From: Susan Bedson <>
Subject: [NYC] Newspaper article
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 17:04:30 -0500

Hi All,

This is a newspaper article - very old and barely legible. There is no
name of newspaper on it.

If anyone knows who this family is I sure would love to hear from you.
It is part of my family but I don't know just how. My husband was born
at this address - his mother was a Kelly.

Best, Sue

Torn corner - BOY KILLED BY HALSEY STREET CAR
Howard Kelly struck Down While at Play
(hand written - Citizen, April 25, 1908)
Lad Ran in Front of It.
Two Little Companions Witnessed the Affair-Women Passengers Become
Hysterical

While playing with his little companions in the street yesterday
afternoon, ten-year-old Howard Kelly, who lives with his parents at No.
228 Halsey street, was knocked down and run over by a Halsey street car
and was instantly killed. The outside wheel of the car ran over the
middle of the little chap's body, breaking the spinal column and
mangling the body terribly. The motorman was arrested on a charge of
himicide.

>From the account of the accident given by the boy's playmates, James and
Myron Beil, seven and ten years old, respectively, who live at No. 203
Halsey street, the accident occurred shortly before 6 o'clock on Halsey
street near Marey avenue. The threes boys had been rolloing hoops and,
just before the car came along, they were in the gutter, struggling over
the possession of a hoop.

Howard succeeded in getting it away from the others and darted acrossed
the tracks with the Beil boy in full chase. West-bound car No. 2526 was
coming along at what witnesses describe an ordinary rate and Howard
darted directly in front of it.

He went down between the fender and the forward truck went over him
before Motorman Peter Snider of No 696 Hancock Street stopped the car.
The boy's body was clear of the rails when he was lifted out.

Officer Harry Thompson was on post half a block away and he ran to the
spot when he saw the crowd and placed Snider under arrest. The accident
was witnessed by a number of people, but no one attempted to molest the
motorman, who was much distressed over the accident.

Some of the women passengers in the car became hysterical when they were
told the little fellow was dead.

Snider was arraigned in the Gates avenue court to-day on a charge of
homicide and was held in $2,000 for examination on May 10. Bonds were
furnished by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.

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