The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-09-11
GIRLS JAWBONE BROKEN
AS MOTOR CARS CRASH
Leo kidd, Driving High-Powcre,
Automobile, Runs Into
Taxicab.
KIDD PLACED UNDER ARREST
Pauline Thorp Taken to Virgins,
hospital, Where Il Was at Firs,
Feared That Her Skull Had Beer
Fractured.

i'"o KIDD. driving a acven-passonge%
automobile west on Grace street. .tr,cIE
"a hAIc'1b or The Richmond TransfcS
company az BcIviderc ana .;r.,a
streets shortly before o'clock ~ s.
morning girl who Kidd said wa4
Louise Price. Of TWENTY mn A
street, but who was later idcntif,cd III
faui'nc Y. Thorpe, Of 1907 l-2 SoutI]
kandolph street. sustained II hrolct.
J"wbono and several decorations of .h.1
scalp II was at first thought that he 4
skull WAS fractured. but Ambulance
surgeon fittowitl said carly tthiA
morning that lie did not think ,h61
skull had been broken. T.. W. Mcr
soi,h' driver OF he 'axicab escaped
INJURY. while Kidd was struck in th.1
head 10y dying glass and tn. skin wasl
broken in SaVcr;I places 4
latrolnnn Porter heard the crash o.
III" machines when more than a soIlar5d
awav. II" hurried to the scene AMI
round Kidd talking with Meredith =; j
ia" taIicab nearly square froms
whore hia own car wag standing. ThJl
patroiuau started for the men but W., s
startled by sounds Of grooming com
ing from tho front yard Of 81. HcaJ
Trace street. He stepped IN tho v.r,]
and found what he supposed to be thJ
form of Il child huddlcd on the bricEj
raviiW Flashing his Hight on Ind
form. lac Uncovered Il young nonla
lying tn a pool of blood
FROM Nearby IOsPITArl
Porter hurried acrors the street I'll
-. Ellzabcth's Hospital and sum
inoncH surgeons. Or. Williams. OF nd
Hospital corps. hurried ont and h. u
III" Girl taken into tho hospital whei 4
emergency treatment waX rendered Sh4
Was turned over to DR.. fltkowItE. wh3
arrived in few minutes, ana Nh
taken To the Virginia Tio.pitiI
kiud disappeared from tho ScenH
while the policeman Was caring .c1
nc injured girl. but rcnppc.rcd aom1
titn" hitcrWnrt ilc Mas at once "a ii, 81
ia charge by Sergeant 4. NJ. John.o Il
and Vas sent TO tho second PrccincI
station House. charged with rockies
~ driving his automobile through ,.J
streets
Ia telling his view of the accidcr9
Kidd .hid last night that he WAS con,9
ing west along Grace Street when hj
mt the other ear. lie told physic;anld
az ST Elizabeth Hospital thai, lie waa
alone IN his machine. Later he told
sergeant Johnson that the girl founj
~ the ward was with him and tha1
her name was Price. 81. denied Il
En"wicdce as TO how she huppcncLl
10 ne round in the yard some iiirtv fed
from Whcr. his machin" had stoppc,t1
and sand that she was sim on the s.;,k1
"rS'd" h;in when hc returned to mi
other car. Kidd said that tho girl an d
"A
time later h" admitted that there Va
another man In TIC rear of his rnachiu.H
but said that hc did not know hiu,I
hut thought his name was Brook. i'm
sara thai he had picked hi,n- up al +
seventh and Grace Streets on the wa
vest This man disappeared. and hal
not been located by the police at n 81
early hour this morning d
Meredith, driver OF ,hc taxicab. raN(
the police the mos, coherent accour1
OF the accident. He said that he ws,}
proceeding north along Eclvidcre II
a slow rate OF speed when in crossir a
Grace street he saw the glare of Kidd |
meningitis The machine, MEREDITH
said. was running at least forty a
iorty five miles an hour and was oil
him before he could make turn III
avoid being struck Tic ;axicab wan
swept distance OF over twenty feel
up Grace Street.
Kids car. its front wheels brokcEI
and its windshield smashed to bitRI
continued its mad dash up Grace ii
within a fnwN feet of Pine Street
came TO stop before sic West GracgJ
and was found there by Patrolaian Po!sE
ter with all brakes on
How the girl happened to be- found ii
the yard is mystery to the pollock
She was unable to have walked thcrt{
II is said. and II was Impossible to fins
any one who had carried her there urs !
less it was Brooks, who disaprearcG1
Kidd denied all knowledge of this pail
OF the affair. and said that he had yorEJ
Immediately to DR.. Oppenhimcra oG4
flee to secure treatment after leaving
tho taXicab. III
Detective Sergeant John Wiley thi}Y
morning entered an additional charghA
against Kidd. fIe charged the ma
with being suspicious character, susit
pectcd OF feloniously injuring Pau,insI
Thorpe. lie learned that Brook}
stopped at Gresham Court. but wal
unable to locate him. Tho detective
said the taNicah vas knocked twentyH
two yards by Hides machine and tina,
the touring car ran eighty-four yards
before il came to a stop.
I,