The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-02-02
VICTIM OF AUTO
FULLY IDENTIFIED

Identified the body of the woman
killed last night at Sixth and Broad
Streets by DR.. Tyler Hundley's auto
mobile as that Of Miss India Carroll.
Miss Carroll lived at 8 East Clay
Street and had been employed in the
bag department of the Virginia Caro-
lima Chemical Company. She was
about siNty-fve years old. and had, |
as far as can be ascertained, no rel
atives here.
Or. Hundley who was driving the
automobile when the accident &C
Crutchheid in the Police Court this
morning and gave bail bond of
$l,OOO for his appearance in that
court next Tuesday morning.
Coroner Taylor has summoned
jury, and has instructed the police to
get i'm touch with all the witnesses.
The inquest will be held tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock.
Meantime the body is at Bliley's
undertaking esta blshment on East
Marshall Street. Unless the corpse
is claimed Immediately after the i'm
quest tomorrow it VIII he buried. At /
Us propabie however. that the body
viii he claimed. Miss Carol had a
nephew. Charles r. Carroll. who lives
in Monticello, Fla. lie has been no.
tiled OF hts ounts death and mes
sage is 0omcntariy expected from
him.
Though nothing definite can be as
cCrtai0ed Of the accident until the
coroncr's jury makes its report. and !
the witnesses who have thus far dis |
cusscd the accident say that DR.. Hun
dley was not guilty of negligence, il |
is believed that some action will he
taken within a short time by the City
Council in the nature of the passage
Of an ordinance providing stricter
rules for automobiles.
According TO the police records. five |
people were killed by automobiles last
year, or one every seVenty-three DAYS
and according to this schedule. as
one of the city officials remarked this
morning, this death was not due un-
al sometime in March, and he fears
that the aUtomobnists are working
overtime. he went further by point
ing out that pedestrians have the un-
disputed right over automobiles, and
that when the chauffeur blows his
horn his responsibility does not inn
mediately come TO an end, as some
have appeared TO think.
The new law will probably require
an automobile to come to a dead stop
whenever anyone crossing the street
appears TO be in the least confused.
and viii be required to stand still un-
til the pedestrian has crossed over
and gotten safely on the other side.
Miss Carroll was killed at o'clock.
She was going home from work. and
when crossing Broad Street at Sixth
was struck by DR.. Hundley's machine.
The doctor was going down Broad, /
returning from the City Hospital.
He says that the woman became
confused and changed her course sew
eral times. and in spite of all he could
DO ran right into his automobile. lie
declares that he was driving the ma
chine very slOwiS-nOt more than four
or five miles an hour, and in this he
is borne out by several witnesses.
Before il could be stopped, how
ever. the heavy machine. after knock
inc the Old woman down. ran over her. /
crushing her skull fracturing the right
collarbOne and breaking several ribs.
She was breathing when taken from
under the car, but died almost inn
mediately. DR.. Hundley aid every
thing IN his power TO save her. but
nothing could be done. He then save
himself up to Officers AGREE and Grif-
fin and accompanied them to the Sec
ond Police Station where lac gave bail
for his appearance III the Police GouE
this morning.
Miss Carroll had been in Richmond
number OF years It is thought that
She came here from Smithfeld, where
she is said TO have had a married sis
ter. AccOrding to Mrs. Ernest Harris,
of East Clay Street, from whom she
rented room. she had not heard from
this sister for several years. Miss Car
roll at the time of her death, Mrs |
Harris said, that her sister was dead !
Mrs. Harris has been in her present /
quarters only some two or three
months Miss Carroll had been there |
Tor I'VE or six years, renting her little |
room from the previous tenant. 1t. J. !
Clark. She kept to herself great I
deal Mrs. Harris and Mr.. Clark de- |
clared, and though not recluse. did /
nct have many intimate friends.
NOR El. ny years Miss Carroll had .
Deth q mem Der of the Emmanuel /
Bantist church and Of the Emmanuel /
tiole Class. She attended morning
services almost every Sunday, rarely !
being absent unless confined TO NS,cr /
room by sickness or kept in 10y ba0
weather.
She appears to have been very in !
duStrious and hard working, and was !
Wen educated. Being very old and |
suffering from nervousness, she would !
never write any letters. Mr.. Clark I
said, but requested her friends from /
time to time to write them for her !
Most of her letters were written 70
her nephew in Florida.
Ia tho little room on East Clay
street Miss Carroll, except when she
was working. spent the greater part
OF the last five years of her life. She
kept house there, cooking her own
meals on dimiutive stove and sleep
ihg on a cot.
she had only a hand bag and sew
oral pieces Of china with her when
she WAS killed. There are no marks
on the satchel and no papers in il
Nv which she could be identified. In
her room she left a trunk and a num-
Der of boxes and small articles. These
are being kept by Mrs. Harris and
VIII not be disturbed unless the cOrO-
Ler wishes them shown to the jury.
Among the effects left by the We
man was a win giving all her property
TO Mrs. SAlie Inge, Of 1914 North
Twenty-6rst Street. She had given
the viii 10 Mrs. Inge, and accom-
panied by her husband Mrs. Inge
called at BHley's morgue and re-
guested that Miss CAROLS effects he
taken care of until she could get
them. Among the papers were two
Insurance policies for small amounts.
The VIII was dated 1905
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