Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1919 — OUTCOME IS STILL IN DOUBT [ARTICLE]

OUTCOME IS STILL IN DOUBT

Niece of Hallagan Bros. Regained Consciousness Wednesday. John and Joe Hall&gan returned Thursday night from Chicago, where they re called by the serious accident to their neice, Miss Pauflne Hallagan, who was struck by an automobile of the Yellow Bus Line Sunday noon while returning home from church. They report that the young lady regained consciousness Wednesday, and is thought to be improving slightly. She suffered a compound fracture of the skull, however, and the outcome is still in doubt. It seems that she was crossing the street and had passed in front of one of the busses of this line whan the driver of another bus in attempting to pass the first bus, struck her. She was thrown to pavement and pushed quite a distance before the bus could stop. Then the driver backed off and attempted to make his getaway, but u doctor, who was driving with hU, wife in a car a little ways behind, saw the act and, stopping and leaving the latter with the unconscious girl, took out after the Yellow Bus and overhauled the driver and brought 'him into the hands of the officers.