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Killed by
Automobile
Messenger Boy on Bicycle
Struck and Run Over on Sixth Avenue
New York Times, February 20, 1901
Dominic Vackione, eighteen years old of 287 East Forty-second Street, a
messenger boy attached to the office of American District Telegraph
Company, at 821 Sixth Avenue, was run over and almost instantly killed
shortly after midnight by an automobile at Forty-sixth Street and Sixth
Avenue. Vackione had left the office to respond to a call. He rode his
bicycle down the avenue and at Forty-sixth Street he was struck by an
automobile. He was knocked down and the wheels of the vehicle passed
over his body.
The injured boy was carried unconscious to the office of Dr. Pingell at
74 West Forty-sixth Street, where he died in a few minutes. Patrolman
McNamara of the West Forty-seventh Street Station arrested John Doherty
of 1507 Lexington Avenue, the operator and locked him up. The
automobile is said to be the property of the New York Vehicle and
Transportation Company. The dead boy’s body was taken to the police
station.
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