The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-02-04
ALBAR. PUCKETT,
BREWERY AGENT,
HURT BY AUTO
Delivery Truck losses Man
From Street Is Feet
To Gutter.
HIS HEAD STRIKES;
SMASHES WINDSHIELD
Scalp Has LaceratiOns And Suf-
fers Commissions On Left
Leg.

Alba r. Pickett, manager of the
Cape branch of the Green Tree Brew
cry, narrowly escaped being injured
fatally about o'clock last night when
he was struck by an auto-delivery
truck on South Spanish street in front
OF the building occupied by the Cape
Bottling Company.
The car which is owned by the Rues-
slcr Grocery Co., was being driven
south on Spanish street by Albert
Reussler, when the accident occurred.
Packet was picked up by the front
end of the machine and thrown into
the air. Before he touched the ground,
according to the story told by wit
nesses. the machine struck him sec
ond time and knocked him about Is
feet to the side of the street.
Pickett was dazed for a few mo-
mcnts, but recovered before any one
could reach his side to aid him to his
feet. He rose and on making pre-
cursorv examination Of his body, be-
licved himself unhurt and drove away
with his companion Frazier Wray,
driver for the Green Tree Brewery.
Mr.. Pickett, who resides at 322
South Spanish street, has been in
charge of the brewery's interests in
the Cape since last july when he came
here from Cairo. Since his appoint
ment to the Cape position, he has
spent much of his time travelling in
Southeast Missouri for the concern.
Yesterday was one day he spent in
the Cape and he was going from down.
town to Good Hope street and South
Frederick, where he expected to trans
act some more business before stop
ping work for the night.
He was riding south on Spanish
street with Wray. He carried an UNI
brella with him and as the truck
on which they were riding passed the
building occupied by the bottling
works. Pucke:t dropped his umbrella.
He dismounted from the wagon a
few feet further on, he related, and
ran back to get the umbrella. 1t was
lying in the roadway. He stopped to
pick it up and after he had it in his
hand, ne stopped in the street to shake
the water from it.
He was shaking the umbrella out
when the auto-truck struck him from
the rear, he said. The front end of
the machine hit him on the left hip
and leg He was tossed into the air
and fell backward over the engine.
The car rolled forward and as it
struck him a second time, Pickett de-
clared his head smashed the wind
shield.
The umbrella also passed through
the wind shield. The accident occurr-
ed on the north side of the street car
track and as the machine struck Puck
EFT the second time, it lifted him clear
Of the ground and threw him across
the street car track, so that when ne
recovered, he was in the gutter at the
east side Of the street
Mr.. Reusseler stopped his car with
in few feet and ran to the side Of
Pickett. He offered to convey him to
a doctors office in his machine, but
Pickett, believing that he was unhurt,
declined the offer.
Wray watched the accident as it
happened. Pickett was silhouetted
between his wagon and the lights of
the approaching motor car. He turn
ed his truck and drove rapidly back to
the scene of the accident and when
he arrived, Pickett climbed to the seat
of the wagon and told him to drive on.
He then placed his hand to his head
and on withdrawing it, found that his
hand was covered with blood. He and
Wray then learned that he had sustain
ed two severe scalp wounds.
They drove to the st. Charles drug
sore, where DIR. J. c. Vorbeck was
summoned and gave emergency treat
ment. The scalp wounds proved to be
of a serious nature and the doctor de-
clared they seemed to have been made,
one of them by blunt piece of iron
and the other by piece of glass.
Pickett also sustained Commissions on
his left leg and hip, one of which is
serious. He was able to walk to his
home last night.
Mr.. Resseler declared that he was
going but 10 miles an hour when the
accident occurred, and he said that he
was watching the road ahead of him
naY-afulIy He said the darkness and