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- Died at age 8 by being hit by a car
Daughter of Clarence Elbert Peterson and Eva Maude Smith.
Dorothy Peterson, a little eight-year-old girl who resides in West Patchogue, was struck by an automobile and almost killed instantly at about 5:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The car, a Chalmers, was driven by L.E. Frorup, of Brooklyn, who is spending the summer with his family in Sayville, occupying the cottage of Captain Albert Tuthill on Hampton Street.
Mr. Frorup, accompanied by his wife and daughter, were returning from Patchogue to this village and were on West Main Street and were driving at a reasonable rate of speed in this direction along West Main Street. At the junction of West Avenue, the little girl, according to eye witnesses, ran out from behind another automobile, which was standing at the curb. Mr. Frorup made a frantic effort to avoid running her down and in doing so ran up onto the sidewalk, but as the car swerved the mud guard hit the child, knocking her down, her head striking the trolley tracks with sufficient force to fracture her skull.
Edward Davidow, who keeps a small electrical store nearby, saw the accident, picked up the child and took her to the office of Dr. Feldman, but the little girl died within a few minutes. Besides the fractured skull, the doctor also found that the child's right arm was broken.
Mr. Frorup who was almost prostrated from grief over the tragedy, of which he had been unwittingly the cause, was paroled in charge of Deputy Sheriff Weidner, pending the result of the Coroner's investigation.
The identity of the little girl was not known for at least an hour after the incident, when it was learned that she is the child of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Peterson, who live at the corner of West Avenue and South Streets, Patchogue.
Mr. Frorup is an electrical contractor in Brooklyn.
(Long Island Surnames; Suffolk County News (Sayville), Friday, August 01, 1919, Page: 1)
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