No Father, No Mother, No Home! (Dwyer, William M.)

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An Incident of City Life, revealed by a fatal Accident From the Evening Telegram, (N.Y.) September 2, 1881

The glazed cap and three golden curls, which were the only relics by which the little boy could be identified, who was run over yesterday morning on Eleventh Avenue, near Fifty-ninth Street, were sent, with the remains to the Morgue from the police station in Forty-seventh Street. The sergeant said, this afternoon, that all that was left of the lad was an unrecognizable collection of fragments of a human body which were brought to the station house in a box by Policeman Newton. No one had visited the station house when the Telegram reporter called to inquire about the little waif and nothing was known as to his friends or place of residence. Policeman McCormick says that he has learned from the children on Eleventh Avenue, at Forth-fourth Street, that the boy had no father or mother. He had mounted the steps of a train of the Hudson River Railroad, when another boy pulled him off and he fell and was run over by the wheels of the car.