Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-21
Mrs. Mamie Perry, Angus
ia, Is Badly Injured.
.Sustains Fracture Of Left HI p
And Also Left Ankle.
Steps In Front Of [. 7. williams
Car, Lower State Street.

| Mrs. Mamie Perry of Augusta was
| struck and knocked down. at about 1,35
| Wednesday afternoon, on that section
| of lower State street known as Brtts
| Gully. by an automobile owned and OPP
| Grated by Levi r. Williams of Angus
| ta and was severely injured. sustaining
a fracture of the left hip and of the
| left ankle. The woman was at once
picked UP by Mr.. Williams and placed
| in ms car and then taken 10 the Au-
gusta General hospital. where the
fractures We're reduced, and where she
new is. Wednesday evening. she WAS
suffering a great deal. and was not
sufficiently recovered from the opiates
which had been administered. to be
able To tell much about the accident.
The accident WAS Witnessed by
number of people. including those on
car No. Al of the Lewiston. Augusta Il
Waterville Street Railway, in charge of
Conductor Gardner and Motorman
Soula. which had left Water street at
1.3o, on it's run to Gardiner The car had
Just left Scott street. and, according To
custom, when the car WAS opposite the
Norcross place. the whistle was blown
as Il warning to people who might be
cfHHffS UP tiit OflttMdS iS6dlifS " 'tiS
Gleffa ood spring The woman was theE
noticed at the foot of the hill. walking
along in the road, and in the direction
of Hallowell. An automobile, which
afterward proved To be tile one in
question. was noticed going down the
hill. also toward Hallowell.
After the car sounded the whistle for
the driveway. the woman was seen,
while continuing her way down the
street, to be moving away from the To-
cation of the car track. toward the east
side OF tie street, and the automobile
was noticed TO be moving in the same
direction. At the time that the woman
was Knocked down the trolley car was
still some distance up the hill. The
place where the accident happened was
at fhe bottom of the hill. near the
blacksmith shop of Everett Freeman.
Mr. Williams, whose car struck the
unfortunate woman. states that he Was
going down the road toward Halloweli
in his ear, and had with him. besides
Mrs. Williams and their daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. G.. A. Newbegin of Montreal,
p @. They saw the woman in the road
ahead of them, and the car was run
ming slowly. From the direction in
which she was moving. he thought
that she intended to enter the drive
way which runs from State street at
the foot of the hill eastward toward
the river He further states that his
car las al that time nearly over TO
the edge of the roadway. and that al
though he sounded his horn and the
oc, upants of his car shouted to at
tract the womans attention, she PAID
no heed to the warnings. and that Just
as she appeared to be about to stop
to allow the car 10 pass, she half ran
few steps, directly in front of it.
The right mud guard of the car struck
her knocking her down and partially
stunning her. Mr.. Williams stopped thel
car and getting out, picked the woman
up, and placing her in the car hurried
her to the hospital, as stated above.
Mrs Perry had, for short time past.
been living at Mrs. Jennie Harveys
on Water street. During the past win
Ter and early spring she I'D been IN
New York. but had, later, returned To
Augusta.
So far as has been learned, il would
seem that the woman either was hard
of hearing or dazed. or that the aeei-
dent was the result of her own care
lesSness.