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    3. Same incident - different newspaper Hand written: Standard Union Herald, April 25, 1908 Car Kills Roller Skater Howard Kelly, ten years old, a son of James Kelly, of No. 228 Halsey Street, was run over and instantly killed in front of his home yesterday afternoon by a car of the Halsey street line. The accident occurred during the height of the run hour and traffic was tied up for more than an hour. With a score of other boys, young Kelly was roller skating on the asphalt. One of them suggested a game of "snap the whip," and Kelly was one of the smaller boys at the end of the line. The big boy at the head on the line swung the others about just as the car, in charge of Patrick Snyder, came along. Howard Kelly was "snapped" directly in front of the car, the fender hit him and he was ground to death beneath the wheels and forward truck. Reserves from the Gates avenue station were called out to drive back the big crowd that quicqly collected. More than a hundred men got about the car and helped raise it from the body of the boy. The motorman was arrested on a charge of homicide.

    12/04/1998 03:12:54