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- Kingston NY Daily Freeman - 6/9/1942
Alfred Best Budd, four-year-old
son of Mr and Mrs. Ivan Budd of
Philipsport, was fatally injured
in front of the Budd home Sunday
and Dorothea Little, 27, of Ellen-
ville, operator of the auto which
hit the child, was arrested on a
charge of assaunt with an automo-
bile and for having inadequate
brakes.
The infant, playing with his
older brother, Harley, ran into the
road in front of the car operated
by Mrs. Little, who was on her
way to Horton Memorial Hospital
to visit her husband. The lattes
suffered a leg fracture several
weeks ago in an accident at a
shale bank in Summitville.
Taken to the same hospital, the
child died at 6:15 p. m. Sunday,
about four hours after the acci-
dent. Mrs. Little was released
under $25 bail by Magistrate J.
Eugene O'Gorman of wurtsboro
State Troopers William Driscoll
and C. W. Seymour and Vincent
Faber announced after investigt-
ing the accident tht the woman
would be arraigned later on a
criminal negigence charge as a re-
sult of the death of the child.
Besides his prents the child is
survived by a brother, Harey;;
his grandfather and grandmother,
Mr. and Mrs. Augusut Metdler, and
an uncle, Theodore Metler, of
Jackson Heights, L.I. Funera
services will be held at the home
of his parents Wednesday after-
noon at 2 o'clock. Burial will be
in the Poplar Grove cemetery,
Phillipsport. The Rev. Donald
Spencer, pastor of the Ellenville
Methodist Church, will officiate.
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