The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-01-21
WOMAN LEARNS
TO DRIVE AUTO;
RUNS over BOY
Hugh Leslie Mitchell, IL, Has
Broken Right Leg as Re-
suit of Accident.
LAD CROSSES STREET
ON ROLLER SKATES
Ed Beard Was Instructing Mrs.
BeuIah Bowman, Prospect,
In Driving.

Ten-year old Hugh Leslie Mitchell,
sustained broken right leg when he
was knocked down yesterday after
noon within a hundred feet of his
home, by an automobile driven by a
woman who was learning to drive the
car. The car was stopped by a man
who accompanied the woman, ard Who
subsequently carried the boy into his
homo.
The driver was Mrs. Bculah Bow
man, former wife Of Ben Bowman,
once well-knOwn barber in the Cape,
and she was accompanied by Ed.
Beard, automobile salesman for Eu-
gene St Avit
The accident occurred at the cor
ncr of North Frederick and Thomis
streets at 4:3G O'Clock The boy
had gone to his home from the Lori
mier School, where he is 4 pupil in
the third grade, and was on his way
from home to the Ruehmann pond,
where he expected toskatewith several
companions.
He was upon roller skates and had
left the front gate Of his home at 105
North Frederick, going south on the
sidewalk At the intersection with
Themis street, he started diagonally
across IT, =t;-~te to~-a~G tko homo or
Rev A. Wilder.
At the same time, the automobile
approached going south on Frederick
street. The boy was struck by the
front end of the car and knocked
down just at the street intersection.
The boys body passed between the
front wheels and the machine was
stopped within a few feet after it had
hit him and the lad was rolled along
the pavement for short distance.
After the car had been stopped,
BEARD jumped from the machine and
picked the injured boy up in his arms
and carried him into the home Of DR..
G. b. Schulz on the corner, and sUbse-
quently. when it was found the doctor
was out, Beard carried the lad to his
home next door.
There DR.. =. H. q. Wilson, who was
walking nearby when the accident Oc-
Cured, gave the lads broken leg
emergency treatment. In addition to
the fracture of the right leg between
the knee and ankle, the boy suffered
several bruises and slight cuts about
the body. His left leg also was badly
bruised and sprained.
His condition at his home last night
was not dangerous.
In telling of the accident last night,
Mr. Beard declared that he and Mrs.
Bowman were driving slowly along
Frederick street in anticipation of
turning the corner at Themis to go
west on Themis street. Mrs. Bow
man was at the wheel and he was at
her side, aiding her in doing the driv-
ing.
Beard said he saw the boy start
across the street when he was several
feet from the lad and reached for
ward to sound the horn. The boys
skates seemed to slip under him, Beard
said. and after the boy, he said, had
lodged twice to get out of the way and
each time lodged into the path of the
auto. he finally continued across the
street and was hit
The Mitchell boy declared that he
did not dodge back and forth in an eff
fort to get out of the way, and he
declared that he did not hear any
warning horn sound as the automobile
approached.
He said he started to 60 diagonally
across the street and was we'll started
He declared that his skates did not
slip under him.
Mrs. Bowman, who was driving the
car, has been visiting relatives in Haa,
rig for a few days and was said to be
planning on buying a machine. She
is half sister to jeff Heath, the
Haarig restaurant man.
The Mitchell boy is a son of Mrs
Varena Mitchell, who is a widow anC
is employed at the Ten-Cen store. She
and her mother, Mrs. Malinda Schadt
reside with the boy at the Frederick