The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08
AUTO RUNS over
RILEY co. SUPT.
ON STREET HERE
Miss Reppie Carey Badly In
jured in Accident.
Doctor Fears Her Skull Has
Been Fractured.
WAS SHELLABARGER'S AUTO
Eye Witnesses State Jay Driv-
ing Caused Accident.
Shellabarger Says That the
Lady Became Confused.
Miss Reppie Carey Badly In
jured in Accident.
Doctor Fears Her Skull Has
Been Fractured.
WAS SHELLABARGER'S AUTO
Eye Witnesses State Jay Driv-
ing Caused Accident.

J. NJ. She1labarger, a Topeka under
taker, knocked down and ran over
Miss Reppie Carey, county superin-
tendent of Riley county, this morning
at $3.50 o'clock at the corner of Eighth
and Jackson streets. Shellabarger
was driving his light Allen coupe at
the time. Miss Carey is at Stormont
hospital painfully injured.
DR.. L. H. Mum, attending physician,
states there is a possibility that Miss
Carey has sustained a fractured skull
or brain injury. There were no
bruises on her face. The wheels of the
nose to bleed. Barring the possibility
of fractured skull OF brain injury,
Miss Carey's condition is not serious,
Doctor Mum states. All during the
day rumors have been current that
Miss Carey had died.
Three witnesses interviewed by H.
P. Brush, traffic officer at Eighth and
Kansas avenue, declared that the ac-
cident was caused by jay driving on
the part of Shellabarger. These wit
nesses are all Topeka Railway com
pany employees. giving their names as
Harmon, Cookson and Murphy.
E. T. Hargis and John Engle. motor
men for the railway company, two
other eye witnesses interviewed by a
reporter for the Topeka State Journal,
verified the jay driving story told by
Harmon, COokSOn and Murphy. Half
an hour after the accident occurred a
police officer was stationed at Eighth
and Jackson streets to direct traffic
during the remainder of the state
teachers convention.
Witnesses Statement.
THE lady was crossing Eighth
street from the SOUTH" said Hargis. a
motorman. "Shellabarger was driV-
inc ar N
the east. He made a jay turn, driv-
ing his car on the north side of the
car tracks. The lady evidently didn't
see him until he was right on her.
"Shellabarger must have been go
ing ten or twelve miles an hour. His
machine knocked her down and a
front and rear wheel ran over her
face. 1 don't see how she escaped
serious accident"
Fred Shellabarger was summoned
and drove the big ambulance to the
scene of the accident DR.. L. H.
Mum was called. Miss Carey, bleed
ing profusely, was placed in the am
bulance and hurried to Stormont hos
pital.
Sure, we'd be glad to tell any,
thing we know about the accident" "
said Fred Shellabarger over the tele-
phone at Stormont hospital Father
was driving the car. Miss Carey was
walking across the street She looked
ing and evidently became confused.
Instead of going forward, she stepped
back, right in front of the car"
Witnesses say your father was jay
driving"
Il don't know anything about that
at present"
She Was in Railroad Accident.
This is the second accident suf-
fered by Miss Carey in the last two
years. She was one Of the victims of
a railway accident near Randolph two
years ago when a motor crashed thru
a bridge. She was quite seriously in
jured at that time. Before being
elected county superintendent of Riley
county. Miss Carey taught in the pub
lie schools at Manhattan.
Fred Shellabarger called the State
Journal later. after he had made an
investigation of the accident.
That story about father being on
the wrong side of the street is all
wrong he said. Father turned east
/ and was on the south side of the
street car tracks all the time. After
the accident some one picked her up
and carried her over to the north of
the tracks One wheel ran over her.
She was with two other women
learned this after making an investi-
CATION
No complaint had been filed against
Shellabarger at a late hour this after
noon
Il guess there is no danger Of Shell