The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-12-30
CHILD KILLED BY AUTOMOBILES.
N"r Ori'eh ny Rev. j. ID. Bowen of
FaXVillc Runs Over Little Colored
Boy.

"A most deplorable accident occur.
red Wednesday afternoon on Manning
avenue at about 4 o'clock, when the
bulck car owned and driven Inv the
rev. j.. d. Bowen struck and ran
over Nunez Cardoza Maxwell tbe lit-
tie three n a-half year old son of
'ohn M. Maxwell, a colored merchant
or ~Orangeburg and brother of G. w
maxwell of this city. The little bow
with his parents was visiting relatives
in the city at the time.
According to testimony this morn
Ing at the coroner's inquest the affair
was entirely an accident and some
thing that Mr.. Bowen could not nave
prevented. Only two Witnesses wero
heard, McKiever Hersey and E.. w
DIX, both colored, and Mr.. Bowen
was allowed to make a statement.
Hersey stated that he saw the acct
dent. He said that MI. Bowen in
a Buick car was going east on Man.
ming Avenue, leaving the city. A
Ford car was left on the side Of the
street which was very narrow at this
point. The little boy was sta lg
IN the driveway behind the Ford ar.
and a out from behind it to go
across the street just as Mr.. Bowen's
car was opposite the Ford car. He
stated that Mr.. Bowen's car was 60
ing slow at the time and that Mr..
Boiling tried to turn out and to stop
MS car to prevent it striking the
child, but that it was impossible to
stop the car in the very short dis
tance although the car was stopped
short, but after the wheels had pass
ed over the body of the child, who
had been knocked down by the fend-
err. Dix did not see the car strike the
boy, but saw the wheels pas over it's
body.
Immediately after the accident the
child was taken into DR.. Folders Of
flee and given attention by him, as
we'll as by others who were near at
hand. Mr.. Bowen offered to take
the child to the hospital at once, but
DR.. Fielder did not think this neces-
sary. The child lived about three
hours after the accident, dying early
last night. After he had lone all
that it "a possible for him to do
Mr.. Bowen left and did not know OF
the child's death until this morning
when he came into town and stopped
at the house to inquire as to how it
was getting along.
Mr.. Bowen in his statement, which
he desired to make, stated that at
the time of the accident he was going
slow, as the street was narrow and
there were a number of colored folks
on ach side. He did not see the
child until it ran out from behind the
Ford car, which was standing on the
street, and at the time he did all that
1t was possible to stop his car and
did stop it as soon as he could, but
he felt it go over the child. He had
afterwards, he stated, done all that
he could for the child. He and his
wife were in the car at the time of
the accident and both were much af-
fected by it, not only yesterday but
this morning at the inquest. He re-
GREETED the accident as deeply as if
it had been his own child, he stated.
DR.. r. r. Littlejohn stated that he
had examined the body and found
that death had resulted from q frac-
turc of the skull.
The verdict of the jury was that
Nunez CardOza Maxwell had come to
his death by being run over by a car
owned and driven by J.. D.. Bowen
and that the killing of the child was
an accident.
Mr.. Bowen is, the new Baptist pas
tor at PaXville, having recently been
elected to that charge to succeed the
Rev. M. j.. Kyzer, resigned. His
former pastorate was in Lynchburg,
from which place he was moving to
Paxville in his car at tffe time Of the
accident.
The death of the little boy is much
deplored by the many friends of Mr..
and Mrs. Bowen, as well as by those
of the grief stricken fami