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Show I SLEUTH STOPS RUNAWAY AUTO AND SAVES TWO CHILDREN AND I MACHINE FROM DASH INTO POLE, 1 By daihlnir Into the street rinr jumr- I- lng on the running board of an auto-rnobllo auto-rnobllo In a mad race down Twenty-eighth Twenty-eighth street," Sunday afternoon, Detective De-tective Edward Butterfleld narrowly averted serious Injury to two children, occupants of the car, when ho succeeded suc-ceeded in stopping It within a foot of a telegraph pole. According to James F. Abhott. owner own-er of the car. Detective Butterfleld Is to bo complimented on his exceptional exception-al presence of mind nl initiative which resulted In saving the hlldnn and the car from being seriously wrecked. The. automobile had been left by George Abbott. according to James Abbott, parked at an angle of 45 degrees, de-grees, with the brakes on and the- gear in reverse on Twenty-eighth sir. i t. headed down hill, near the Intersection of Twenty-eighth strct and Madison avenue. Two children, Richard Ilargrcavcs, 3 V years of age, son of F. C, Har-areaves, Har-areaves, C34 Twenty -eighth street, and James Abbott. & years of ago, son of Georgo Abbott. 64 S Twenty-third street, were In the car. I I Mrs. Burton. 622 Twenty-eighth street, had telephoned the. police to tho effect that some auto-i auto-i mobile driver had run down her son. Vance Burton and Injured him. I Detective Buttcrfleld had gone to Ihcr home, and while listening to her Istory of the accident In front of her house, she screamed, and pointing up Ithe street, called his attention to the unattended automobile with the children, chil-dren, racing down the street. Detective Butterfleld ran Into the street. Jumped on the running board I and, Jamming his hand through the side curtains succeeded In applying Ithe brakes to Iho car before it reached the telegraph pole near the lntersec- J Hon of Jefferson avwiue and Twenty-eighth Twenty-eighth street. Judged from the conversation of the Children In the car, one of them had j thrown the gears into neutral and released re-leased the brakes on the ear. with the result that It started down the hill. James Abbott said this morning that had the ear Struck the telegraph pole, the children would undoubtedly have j been thrown through the windshield, and seriously Injured and the car WOUrd have been wrecked. |