Lackawanna County PA News - Accidents
Indiana Evening Gazette (Indiana, Pennsylvania) November 2, 1911
Six Months and Fine For Society Favorite
Behrens' Automobile Killed Student at Scranton, Pa.
Scranton, Pa., Nov. 2 - Judge Harold McClure of Snyder county sitting here sentenced Herman Behrens, manager of the Scranton Iron works, to jail for six months and fined him $100 for running down with an automobile and killing Hayden L. Evans, a young collegian, in this city last September.
Behrens holds a high reputation had never been arrested for speeding or otherwise and is prominent in society here. In passing sentence Judge McClure said:
"It gives me no end of anxiety to know what is the proper thing to be done in the pronouncing of sentence upon this man. If it had been what is known as a joy rider, if it had been a careless, reckless man the sentence of the extreme penalty of the law would have been inflicted by me and without any compunction whatever.
"It seems to me that we must teach people who are on the highway with autos that other people have the same right there and that while they may take the risk of their own lives and go over banks and be killed or maimed they have no right in taking chances of killing or maiming other people."