Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-09
CAR WHICH HIT Mr.. ANDERSON
DRIVEN BY DIR. j. II. CRAWFORD
WHO THOUGHT HE HAD KILLED
HIS OWN FA THEIR IN THE ROAD
dwelling of Mystery Which Surrounded Tragic Automobile Acct
dent of Saturday Night Unpeakaby Tragic
Feature Heartrendng Circumstances Surrounding I-Dr
Crawford Crazed With Grief-No Effort Was Made to
Conceal His Name.

DR.. James H Crawford, with offices in
the Prudential building and residence on
Peachtree circle, is the man who was
driving the automobile which struck and
fatally injured Harvey L Anderson,
president Of the Anderson Hardware COM
pany, Saturday night. on Peachtree road.
and afterward sped away without stop
ping.
DR. Crawford's explanation Of his rea-
son for falling immediately to halt adds
another horribly tragic feature to the
heartrending circumstances surrounding
the accident He believed he had killed
his own father!
DR.. Crawford is in a critical mental
and physical condition, bordering on col
lapse, and no coherent statement has
been obtainable from him in detail. but
he explained Saturday night. 1t is stated,
that he never saw Mr.. Anderson until
the moment his car struck him. and that
Mr.. Anderson stepped out of the way of
another car directly into the pathway OF
his own.
HOW ACCIDENT OCCURRED.
1t appears Mr.. Anderson was walking
I'm the street from his own home toward
that of F. J. Seely, and that two cars
were approaching him from behind. In
the FIRST car was Charles NJ. Love, of
Smyrna, representing the Georgia Motor
company, 70 Edgewood avenue In the
second car was DR.. Crawford. AS they
approached the point where Mr.. Anderson
was walking, 1t seems that DR.. Crawford
sweryed to the left to pass the Love car.
At the same moment, Mr.. Anderson, who
had been walking on the right side Of
the road, stepped briskly to the left to
avoid the Love car. and stepped directly
In front of the Crawford machine. It
is inferred that Mr.. Anderson supposed
only one car was coming behind him.
DIR. Crawford, senior 1t is understood,
was accustomed frequently to walk
homeward alone. at that hour of the
night, and sometimes in the street in
stead of the sidewalk. This his son
knew. And when the accident occurred,
the first image that arose in his brain
was that Of his father.
OVERCOME BY EXCITEMENT.
Terribly excited and almost beside him.
self with agitation, the physician did not
slaeken speed. but whizzed straight on
to the residence OF his brother-in-law, ].
+. d. Rhodes, and told him what he feared
he had done.
Immediately DR.. Crawford, Mr.. Rhodes
and Z. W. Born, q neighbor, started bacl,
to the scene. but on the way DR.. Craw-
ford collapsed under the strain and grief.
WhHe MS TWO companions went on and
gave what assistance they could.
Later In the night, they notified Mr..
Hudson Moore, brother-in-law of Mr.
Anderson, just how the accident had oc-
Cured, and whose the mysterious ma
chine was.
DR.. Crawford and his family are natur-
ally overcome with grief. the more so be-
cause he and Mr.. Anderson had been in
Innate friends and neighbors both men,
oers OF the Shrine and had been bound
by many other ties of mutual regard. DIR.
Crawford is still completely Frustrated.
and is at HIS home under the care OF
physicians and trained nurses
MR.. LOVES STATEMENT.
Charles NJ Love, who was IN the car d.
rectly in front of DR.. Crawford, with his
wife and niece, Miss Gertrude Norver, in
the car with him, makes the following
statement in substance:
Il do not think that Mr.. Anderson real
ICED that there was another car behind
mine said Mr.. Love. II was driving out
TO my home at Smyrna with my wife and
my niece. Mrs. Love has been H. and on
account of that fact, I was not driving at
high rate OF speed. Between Sixteenth
and Seventeenth streets I noticed a man
walking along the car tracks. / passed
him to his right BEHIND me I heard a
car coming. A few seconds after I had
passed Mr.. Anderson this car turned is
my left and ran into the side of my ma
chine. The force of the impact nearly
turned my car over. Mrs. Love and my
niece screamed, and wishing to learn who
the driver was I started in pursuit. I fol.
lowed his until he reached Ansley park,
where he turned into the right and /
stopped. noticed a group of peoplA
talking at the point where the fatal car
turned, and I stopped my machine. 1t
was then my wife suggested that the
man walking In the road-Mr. Anderson
hOd been injured by the other car. and