Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-05-23
Man Who Killed Child With
Auto Goes on Trial.
CONTENTION OF PROSECUTOR
Holds That the Trial of Coiored Ply
siclan Will Develop saIutary
Lesson to Reckless Drivers
All Over the State.
Special Columbus Correspondent.

n this city of DR.. William ].
v Woodlin will depend in large
measure the extent of eau
tion autoists must use in future.
DIR. Woodlin went on trial in criminal
court Tuesday for manslaughter. Re-
Gently he ran down and killed with
his machine an S-year-old boy. The
trial is the first of the sort to be held
in this part of the state and naturally
the interest is great. If Woodlin, who
Is colored physician, is found guilty,
he will get a term in the penitentiary.
Prosecutor Turner holds that the
trial of Woodlin will develop salu-
tary lesson to reckless auto drivers
ali over the state. The case in many
respects will form a precedent for
similar ones in the future as to the
amount of caution that must be used
by drivers of machines. The victim
Of the Woodlin machine was killed
near the Columbus baseball grounds
on the afternoon of the opening game.
He was crossing the street en- route
to the ball grounds when the machine
struck him. Woodlin says it was all
the boys fault; that the latter ran
directly in front of the auto. The
prosecution charges that the machine
was violating the speed rules anyway
and that that fact in itself would be
sufficient to prove the defendant
guilty
Have No Faith in "cure."
There is endless gossip in medical
circles here over the attack made in
this city on the Friedman tubercu-
losis cure" by DR.. E. G. Schroeder,
director of the bureau of animal hus-
bandry at Washington. DR.. Schroeder
told the Columbus audience in effect
that the alleged cure was not worthy
of serious attention and he advised
all patients suffering with the white
plague" to continue their present
treatment. Many Columbus pbysi-
clans have declared that they had no
faith in the friedman cure since
Friedman came to America.
Only One Watch in Township.
If Diogenes could come to life now,
he surely would be rewarded by a
visit to Franklin county. Out in Plain
township, this county, there is a plain,
honest farmer, and he has returned to
the tax assessor for taxation the only
watch that is owned" in the entire
township. The same township has 80
pianos, 4S0 horses, nearly 1000 COWS,
and hundreds of sheep and hogs, but
it has only one watch, say the rec
ords. The taxing officials are wonder
ing if the whole population visits the
watch owner when it wants to know
the time.
Supreme Courts Vacation.
The supreme court summer vaca-
ton, at first lightly considered is
getting to be a serious question. The
court proposes to take an entire sum.
mer's vacation in spite of the fact
that there are nearly 1000 cases
awaiting decision and that some of
the cases are of years standing
Judge Wanamaker's attitude in stand
ing out against the proposal of his
colleagues will not avail anything ex.
cept that it is raising in the public
mind the question why the courts
should be the beneficiaries of vaca
tions timed only by the pleasure and
convenience of the honorable judges
while other public officials are sup
posed to work through the year.
Job Hunters Swarm Columbus.
No sooner had Gov. Cox put his foot
or rather feet, into his office Friday
after his return from the east, after 6
weeks absence, than the job hunters
began to stream in. They came from
all parts of the state and many o.
them were accompanied by legisla
tors, who told the chief executive how
really important it was that he should
appoint in compliance with their rec
concentrations. The applicants were
somewhat disappointed when informed
by the governor that it would be some
time yet before he would fill the po
sitions created by the recent legisla
ture, such as the appointment of mem
bers of the industrial commission
agricultural commission, liquor licens,
commission, deputy tax commission
ers and other places of lesser impor
tance. Within a short time the gov
ernor will appoint trustees for severa
state boards and will dispose of som,
of the Harmon holdover appointments
but 1t will be some little time yet be
fore the lucious plums will drop.
Omission In License Law.
A curious omission has been discoy