The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-12
CHILD KILL Ed
BY STREET CAR.
Three-Year Old Rosa Woodson
Meets Instant Death I'm
der Wheels.
WAS PLAYING IN MAIN STREET
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Eye Witnesses Attach No Blame
to Motorman
Turner.
Three-Year-Old Rosa Woodson
WAS PLAYING IN MAIN STREET
Eve Witnesses Attach No Blame

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Rosa Nell Woodson, the three-year-
old daughter of j. w. T. Woodson. an
employe OF the Virginia Railway and
Power Company, was run over and in
stantly killed yesterday afternoon
shortly before o'clock by a Main
Street. car near the corns OF Rowland !,
and Main Streets. The body OF the!
child was horribly mangled. being!
crushed by the wheels and motors OF
the car. Life was gone before the re-
mains were gotten from beneath the
wheels.
The little girl had been playing on
the south side of Main Street. Just q
short distance above her home. 2016,
West Main, when she evidently decided
to go home. There were a dozen peo-s
pie sitting on the front porches Of
the houses nearby who saw the child
and her danger, but were too late to
prevent It.
Child Became BesvNdered.
Mrs. C. c. Green, wife of Police OFF,
Ger Green, was the first to see the
danger. When she realized the situa-s
tion the car was just at the corner Of
Rowland and Main Streets. lEotorman
William c. Turner saw the child, but
she had stopped. and he thought she
intended to let the car pass. Accord z
ing to several witnesses. the car was
not going at a rate of more than ten
miles an hour. It was we'll under
control, and had not the child become
bewildered there would have been no
accident.
Just as the car came within few
feet Of the child. the eyewitnesses state,
she started to cross the track. Mrs.
Green, seeing her danger shrieked for
her to stop, but the little girl had
become confused, and she ran directly
in front Of the car.
"Had it not been such little tot,''
Mrs. Green said after the accident, II
would have thought 1t was a case Of
suicide. The child tripped over the
fender of the car. and before I knew
what had happened had been crushed" !"
Death instantaneous.
Motorman Turner who was driving
the car, put on the brakes as soon as
he saw what had happened and backed.
It was too late. however and there
were only the mangled remains. The
child was dead when the body was dis
engaged fro m the wheels. and although
physicians were called Immediately
there was no need for them.
a police ofhcer was near the scene
and at once took charge Underta
Bennett was called and took care OF
tIlc NSNSSAAi2 " 1AOS3 q
home, and Mrs. Woods son was enga aged
in her house, so q hat she lid mot see
The accid dent. Kind hearted neig ghbors
told the mother of9what had appenec
as gently as possible. but Il the shock
was more h than Mrs. Yoodson coulc
stand, and she was prostrated. s5
NIotornlan Turner was arrested ane
taken to the Second Police Station
where he was recognized for his ap.
pearance before q core ner's tnquestStt t
be held this afternoon at half-past
lo'clock. .tt345S9... ..fs 5
MotormAn Hystcrical.
8 The motorman was almost hysteri.
cal over the aliZation Of what haG
lShappened, and such was his feeling
over the accident that he could givs
lno coherent exp planation of how t'hap.
| pened. s ,5s- s,
myself" he wept to olice Captain
i Epps, Of the Second District. s=
IOHicials Of the street car GO nipans
came to the station house immediately
after the arrest and Turner was re,
llsleasad after eyewitnesses' had told
j:what they had seen. MA
5;s Little Rosa Nell was the baby O.
4 Mr. lWoodson's household. There arr
4 two other children, but the littla to-
A was the youngest, and w len the IA
ther q conductor was informed In tha'
4 she had been killed, it was almos
more than he could bear. q Last nj gh
S|both mother and ather We're abso,
5Llutely heartbroken, and although
4 lscore Of neighbors and friends wer,
lavish in their prof fers of sympathy
f|ithere was little comfort II or h tn am. s
Il CNrOner's InGuext. 5 K S5
AT a late 9hour last night the a r
Il rang gaments for tho Gs fun ernl had no
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