MOTHER STOOD NEARBY AS HER CHILD WAS HIT
Emmerdine Haupt In Centerville Tragedy; Pair is Held For Inquest
As the mother waited on the porch for the return of her daughter from school
Wednesday afternoon, Emmerdine Haupt, aged 5, was run down and almost instantly
killed on Highway 141 ten miles south of the city by a car driven by William
Arthur Carte, 25, Chicago scal mechanic. The girl sustained a fractured skull
when she was carried along on the bumper and radiator of the car for 140 feet.
Carte, who with a companion Ray P. Crass, 30, of Sturgeon Bay, was en route from
Chicago to Sturgeon Bay when the accident happened at 4:30 p.m. He put the Haupt
girl in his car and brought her to the hospital in this city but the child was
dead when the end of the journey was reached.
Sheriff Herman Carstens advised of the accident by phone, hur-
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measurements of the wheel tracks of the Carte car, and came back to Manitowoc to
place both Carte and Crass in custody to await the finding of the coroner's
jury. An inquest this afternoon was ordered by Dist. Atty. Lyman Fischer and
Coroner A.F. Stueck.
Front of Home
The Haupt girl was one of a number of school children being taken home from the
school near the "Second Rooster" church in the town of Centerville, by Arthur
Gaeke, a neighbor of the Haupts. He stopped his car alongside the road in front
of the Haupt home, and had just started away west when the Carte car came along
the highway from the west.
A broken right headlight on the Pontiac coach of the Carte, as well as a
three-inch dent in the radiator of the car, indicated that the Haupt girl had
been struck when she was nearly across the cement highway. Gaeke told the
sheriff that he had warned all the children many times to be careful of
approaching cars when they jumped from his car to run to their homes, but
yesterday afternoon said he did not notice the approach of the Carte car.
Sheriff Takes Measurements
Sheriff Carstens, in his examinations at the scene of the accident, said that
measurements showed that for a number of feet there were no skid marks and that
from the point of the accident to where (continued on page 15) Carte brought his
car to a stop was 140 feet.
The sudden death of the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Agon Haupt, before the eyes
of the mother as she eagerly awaited her daughter's safe return from school,
prostrated the mother at the Haupt home last night.
Carte and Geske(sic) told the sheriff that they left Chicago at 10 a.m.
Wednesday and were en route to Sturgeon Bay. They declined to (illegible) as to
their version of the accident. A jury composed of Francis Scheurell, Henry
Baedke, A.F. Rank, John Rhode, Joseph Pitsch, and Otto Kuehne was drawn by
Sheriff Carstens, viewed the body of the Haupt girl at the Pfeffer funeral home
last night and adjourned until 2 p.m. today.
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The remains of the Haupt girl were taken to the Haupt home this afternoon, where
funeral services will be held at 1:45 p.m. Saturday and at 2 p.m. from the
German Lutheran church here. Interment will be at Evergreen.

Manitowoc Herald Times, Thursday, November 3, 1932 p.1