The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-09-15
SECOND VICTIM
OF FATAL JOY RIDE
COL. HOLLINGSWOKrH SUCCUMBS
TO HIS INJURIES AT JOHN
STON-WILLIS HOSPITAL.

c H NJ o n d, V A-Special.-
colonel j. G. Hollingsworth, of Fay
etteville, n. c., who was injured early
last Friday morning in the automobile
accident in which II. NJ. Deputy, of
Philadelphia, was instantly killed.
succumbed to his injuries in the John
ston-Willis Sanatorium at 7:4O o'clock
last night.
The remains were shipped at l
O'Clock this morning to North Caro-
lima over the Atlantic Coast Line Rail-
way. Accompanying the body were
Mrs. Hollingsworth and other mem
bers of the family.
Mrs. Hollingsworth, Mrs. Kate
Bleece. a first cousin; DR.. ]. V. Nc
Googan, the family physician, and F.
ii. Cotton, all of Fayetteville, were
present at the bedside during Colonel
Hollingsworth's final moments.
Practically no hope had been enter
tanned for Colonel Hollingsworth's re-
coVery from the first. He suffered a
fracture of the skull and conclusion
OF the brain. An operation was per-
formed Immediately after he was
taken to the hospital by Chauffeur
George II. Jordan, of the Virginia
Auto Company, in whose car he was
riding at the time of the fatal 10y
ride
Brain pressure was relieved to a
certain extent, but the injury was too
severe and extensive for the operation
TO be effective. Colonel Hollingsworth
never fully regained consciousness.
though he had infrequent intervals of
semi consciousness. But in these in
terVais he was unable TO talk, and no
story of how the accident happened
ever came from his lips.
Colonel Hollingsworth is survived
by his wife, two small children and
by both parents. He was forty years
q haap etc l
of the North Carolina National Guard
since April. 1909.
The death of Colonel Hollingsworth
is the second resulting from the col
lision on the Cary Street road of cars
being driven by Edmond S. Burrell
and Chauffeur Jordan, and will in all
probability result in another warrant
being sworn out against the two. Both
were arrested for the inadvertent kill
ing of Mr.. Deputy, the technical
charge being that they were suspect
ed of killing him, and the same pro-
cess would lie in the other case.
1t will not be necessary to hold an
other coroner's inquest. the findings
of the jury in the enc case holding
good in the other. The verdict of the
jury placed blame on the two drivers,
Burwell and Jordan, by saying that
the collision between the cars was the
result of their imprudence.
In their testimony, however and in
the testimony Of the other witnesses.
1T was stated that the collision was
the result of an accident, the skid
ding Of the leading car, which was
driven by Burwell.
Burwell and Jordan will also be
called on to answer to the charge of
violating the speed limit. from which
there seems to be no loophole of es-
cape, the two drivers having convict
ed themselves when they admitted to
the coroner's jury that they INDUCED
in a race and drove their cars at a
speed of thirty-five miles an hour.
The case comes up before Magis-
trate Puryear, in Henrico county. Fri
day, September 9th. l. O. Wenden-
burg will represent Burwell and
George S. Wise will represent Jordan.
Burwell and Jordan are now out on
$500 bail each.