Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-06-02
WOMAN IS DEAD YOUTH IN JAIL Sarah Karriz, Syrian Wom- an Steps Off Curbing
 Into Gar
DIES FROM INJURIES
Will Putnam, Chauffeur, Charged With MansIaughter-Says Ac-
 cident Was Unavoidable.

Sarah Karriz, 40 years old "a Syrian woman, died yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock at her home, No. 611 East Sixth avenue, as a result of injuries sustained when she was struck by an automobile driven by Will Putnam, an eighteen year old chauffeur, at Sixth avenue and Missouri street, near 1 o'clock that afternoon. Putnam was ordered arrested soon after her death by District Attorney T. Havis Nixon on a manslaughter charge and is in the county jail in default of a $500 bond. Physicians believe that the woman died from internal injuries or from shock.
 The automobile driven by Young Putnam is owned by Pinchback Fay Tor, who stated that the boy was driving the car without his authority. All dS lol lllouSlHt lue GdI WdS at is home at the time of the accident. Putnam lives at Mo- "A Nebraska street with his widowed mother end is her sole support. He had been 10 his reon meal, 1t is said, and in the car with him At the time of the ac eident were two young girls, Misses Meeks. his cousins. He did not stop the car when the woman was knocked down, not thinking that the woman was injured.
 , Witnesses say the accident happen ed ill the narrow part of East Sixth avenue The woman, 1t is stated raised an umbrella and stepped off the curbing, just as the car passed her. She was not run over, but the rear fender of the car struck her, knocking her down. She was taken to her home immediately after the mishap. Pinchback Taylor, owner of the car, when he learned of the ac- cident, hurriedly took Dr. o. G. Black we'll to the woman's home to give her medical attention. Dr. William Breath wit was called there some time ne- fore, but he stated that the woman showed no i'll effects from the acci- dent, other than sustaining few bruises and bad shock. After Dr. Breathwit left her, however, she grew wIorse and Dr: Blackwell found her unconscious upon his arrival He stated last night that the woman's death Was caused by a ruptured er- tery in the brain. She also sustain ed contusions on the left arm, left leg, left temple and left jaw. She died twenty minutes after pr. Black well reached the house.
 Young Putnam made no statement for publication last night, but he 4old MT. Taylor that he was not running the car at any great speed. He says that the woman opened the um brella just as the car passed and walk ed in.o it. He did not think that she was going to step off the curb. Three eye witnesses, George Joseph, Antwine Homel and H. Ludwig, the latter E: visitor in the city with friends in the 700 block on East Sikh avenue, told District Attorney Nixon that the car was being driven at aI rapid gait. MT. Ludwig says the car was goirg, he thought, at it's fastest speed.
 When District Attorney Nixlon learn ed of the acciden.. he made a per sonsl investigation of the affair. He was told that the woman was not badly hurt, and only asked for the ares: of Young Putnam on a charge pf assault and battery. He was re- leased on his own recognizance, but after the woman's death and the m n slaughter charge was docketed against Putnam, he was arrested and placed in jail NJ 7gistra.e Frazier commit ted him.
 The Karriz woman's body is being prepe.ed for burial by Undertaken Ralph Robinson. She lived in he Greek settlement on East Sixth aye nus and owing ID the mobility Of the Greeks 70 give details that might he understood, it could not be learned whether she was merried CT anyth,rg