Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1916 — Knox Man Run Down by Auto [ARTICLE]

Knox Man Run Down by Auto

Charles Matherson, aged 35 years, ot Knox was run down by an automobile driven by Virgil McGill Sunday evening at 9:30 o’clock at that place and almost instantly killed. In the car with McGill was his brother and sister and Miss Lena Johnson; and all declare that they saw no one and that the first knowledge they had of Matherson was when the car struck him. McGill was driving his Ford car, and says* the lights were not working properly and he was not driving to exceed 12 miles per hour. After summoning assistance, McGill took his party home and then drove the car out in a piece of woods and left it, taking a train himself for South Bend. He returned to Knox next day and was arrested. It seems that the parties in the car were not known by the people summoned at the time of the accident, and McGill was so badly frightened when he found he had killed the man that he left town after telling the other .occupants of his car to say nothing about it.