The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-29
NEGRO WOMAN
 KILLED BY CAR Life. Was Crushed Out on | Dexter Avenue.
 HER NAME NOT KNOWN
 MOtOrman and Conductor Re- leased by Coroner.
 Carmen Declare the Woman Jumped in Front of the Car-A Peculiar Case of Mistaken Identity.

years old, was struck by a car of the Montgomery Street Railway on Dexter Avenue at 5:So o'clock yesterday afternoon | and was almost instantly killed. The accident occurred at the intersec- ton of the Avenue and Lawrence Street. | almost directly in front of The Adver- tiser building.
 The car, No. 15 of the Jackson Street line. which was going east on the Ave nue. was in charge of Motorman Percy L. Railey and Conductor R. J. Eiland. The motorman and conductor were ar- rested but were subsequently, released from custody when Coroner W. H. Tice. after an investigation. decided that the accident was unavoidable.
 Soon after the accident the body of the negro woman was positively identified by Robert Null. an aged negro, as that of Rena Null, wife of his brother Van Null, an industrious negro farmer who lives on the Lower Wetumpka road about two miles from the city. Other negroes iden- titied the body as that of Rena Null and the Coroner and undertaken proceeded on the presumption that Rena Null had been killed.
 Mistake as to Identity.
 About o'clock last night Van Null. husband of Rena Null. went to the negro undertaking establishment on North Perry Street to which place the body was removed soon after the accident, and re- ported that his wife, Rena Null, was at his home sick in bed. He looked at the body of the woman, shook his head and said he knew not the woman.
 At 10 o'clock last night Willie Franklin, an itinerant negro boy about the streets, viewed the body and declared that 1t was that of a woman named Matt who lived on the Lower Wetumpka road near the crossing of the Seaboard Air Line. He said the woman had left her husband and had two small children. a girl and . boy.
 A young negro woman who saw the body late last night said it was that of a woman named Smith, who conducted a small restaurant in Newtown, on the Lower Wetumpka road.
 Large Crowd Gathered.
 A large crowd was attracted to the scene of the tragedy, at least two hun dred persons congregating in the street a few minutes after the woman was killed.
 Motorman Railey said the woman jumped out of the way of a wagon, cross ing the street and was in front of the car when 1t was within few feet of her. The front lruCkS pdSSeu OVoF tle body but ne said the car was stopped within its length. He jumped from the car and, seeing the body under the wheels he backed the car off of the body. While Railey was doing this, Conductor Eiland, who was on the rear platform. rushed to a nearby drug store for surgeons who reached the scene of the tragedy within two minutes.
 Before the surgeons could make an ex- animation, the woman was dead. Her right foot was crushed. there was a con- tused wound over the left eye. the back of the head was crushed in and the neck appeared to be broken. Motorman Railey expressed the opinion that the wounds about the head were caused by the fender striking the body.
 A number of policemen kept the crowd back while the surgeons examined the woman. who lay prone in the street and close beside tLe car tracks.
 A telephone message brought Coroner Tice to the scene and as soon IS the wo- man was pronounced dead, he took charge of the body. It was placed on a wagon and was conveyed to a negro un- dertaking establishment on North Perry Street, where it was viewed by Coroner Tice.
 Meanwhile cars had blocked on Dexter Avenue and the congestion was not re- lieved until a new crew was provided by officials of the company who were present making notes of the details of the acci- dent.
 Motorman and Conductor Arrested.
 Motorman Railsy and Conductor Eiland were accompanied to police headquarters by Special Officer Payne and Patrolman Lacey. They were searched. docketed and locked in cells.
 Within few minutes, however, General Manager Raphael Semmes, Superinten- dent R. F. Scott and J. T. Darling, Sec retary and Treasurer of the Montgomery Street Railway called at the police sta ton in company with the general counsel of the company to see the car men. Cor oner Tice also reached police headouar- ters about this time. Railey and Eiland came from the cell and had a conference