Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1917 — TRUCK KILLS AGED WOMAN [ARTICLE]

TRUCK KILLS AGED WOMAN

MACHINE BELONGING TO TAMPA HARDWARE COMPANY KILLS LADY Mrs. Ella Rogers, aged about sixty years, of near Sulphur Springs, was struck and killed yesterday afternoon at the corner of Fortune and Franklin Streets by a truck belonging to the Tampa Hardware Co., driven by a negro, David Morse. At the Police Station Morse testified that he was going at the rate of four or five miles per hour when the woman started across the street, and he intended to pass behind her. She turned and saw the truck became confused and paused, and was knocked to the street. She was taken into Porter’s drug store at the corner of Fortune and Franklin Streets, and Dr. L. S. Oppenheimer was called. When he arrived, however, the woman was dead, and the body was removed to the undertaking es ablishment of B. Marion Reed. Call Officer Suddath was called to the scene, and he, with Lieutenant of Detectives Thomas, made an investigation and sent the driver and the truck to the Police Station. Upon examination it was found that the. brakes of the truck would not hold, according to the police. The owners of the truck stated that tli edriver had no errand in the part of the city in which the accident occurred, at that time. On the truck was found a barrel, packed for express marked “merchandise.” Upon examination, however, the barrel was found to contain two gallons of whiskey, indicating that the negro was doing a little hauling on his own account. He is being .held in jail pending further investigation. The deceased has one son who lives beyond Sulphur Springs, but seemed to be in destitute circumstances. Funeral arrangements have not been made.—Tampa Tribune.