Crushed before his mother's eyes

A terrible tragedy, due to the carelessness of an unfortunate mother, recently took place in Paris.
Mrs. Lewkswicz, a Polish national living at 106 rue Saint-Maur, was taking her seventeen-month-old baby for a ride in a small car. She laughed at her child, who responded with charming smiles. Having reached a spot where the sidewalk sloped slightly, Mrs. Lewkswicz, confident that she would thus further delight her child, let go of the small car, which rolled off by itself, at first slowly, then, as the slope steepened and carried along by its weight, rolled to the edge of the road and overturned, throwing the baby some distance from the stream.
The mother, panicked and realizing too late the imprudence of her action, rushed out. Alas! A heavy horse-drawn carriage passed at that precise moment. A scream, arms outstretched in the horrible vision of the tragedy about to unfold, did not stop the inexorable moment. Despite the efforts of the coachman, one of the wheels of the vehicle struck the child and crushed his head.
And the mother, distraught, mad with grief, picked up only a small corpse from the bloody pavement.