Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-06-04
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AUTOMOBILE DRIVER GOT BoozY
And Developments Caused Policemen
to Get Busy.

What might have been fatal ac-
cident occurred OH College street,
near the intersection Of Wesley
street, last Sunday afternoon about
4.30 o'clock, when a young woman,
the wife Of the driver Of a Fo"d car,
fell or jumped from the car and
was rolled in the dust and dirt for a
considerable distance. Just how the
accident occurred is not definitely es-
tablished, reports varying in minor
details, but the fact remains that
the woman in question had very
narrow escape from death or serious
injury.
Parties who saw the car coming
up the street estimate it's speed as
som mething like 35 miles an hour, and
the machine was nearing the turn
into Wesley street when the woman
was precipitated into the sand and
dust of the street There is no dis
agreement whatever as to the fact of
the driver Of the car being loaded
TO the gunwales," SO to speak. If
there is such a degree of intOxicatiOn
that finds proper expression in "a
beautiful Jag" the driver had it, and
even the excitement Of the accident
failed to get rid of it for him. He
was "stewed proper" and he was
running some. One party who saw
the accident says the woman jumped
from the car. She explained the sit
uation differently, however, and her
version seems entirely plausible. She
says she became frightened at the
recklessness Of her husbands driv-
ing and at the speed OF the car, SO
got up and leaned over and attempted
TO throw the switch, hoping to stop
the car in it's mad rush. She failed,
however, and in endeaVoring to re-
gain her seat struck against the car
door and fell out. Fortunately she
was not badly hurt. She and another
young woman from the car went to
& nearby home and received atten-
tion in the way of making the dis
Sheveled one somewhat presentable.
The driver of the car, after smashing
the Jno. Hen. windshield with his
fist, jumped back to the wheel and
sped off toward the .Victor7Monaghan.
Village. letting Two or thee .G GopaRn.,
che yells slip out as means, maybe,
Of getting rid Of too much pop-skull
steam. The young mans name, we
understand, is Billings or Billingsley,
and he came here recently, so we
are informed, from Union. He is not.
hat something of an amateur in that
line. Whatever his accomplishments
in the way of soaking up bug-juice,
he managed Sunday to get one Of the
most promising drunks on that we
have seen in many a day.
Officers Keaton and Sullivan be-
gan an investigation. and the man
hunted them up Monday morning,
and was told that a charge Of drunk,
disorderly and speeding had been
docketed against him. He preferred
pleading guilty to running the gaunt-
let Of arrest, trial and consequences,
and he was permitted to plead guilty
before Mayor Pro TEN NJ. c. Long,
who assessed the damages to the
local laws and the violent breaking
of the Sabbath at $25, which was
Immediately forthcoming, and no
grumbling. He seemed to think it
was cheap at the price"
Not the Only One.
A citizen who lives very near the
College and Wesley streets corner
states that the spree of the afternoon
was the second last Sunday. About I 1
o'clock or little later, he says, a car
passed the corner, the car being oc
cupied by two men and two women
men were drinking as the car sped
by, and just after turning the corner
the occupants got into row, and
there was general free-for-all fight
over seat and steering wheel as the
car whiZZed around the corner and
on out the Westminster road.
Evidently somebody ran the block
ade Satu.' 'ay night and eluded the
yigilant officers Certain It is that
there were number Of evidences on
Saturday night and Sunday that John
Barleycorn was spending short
while in our midst. But 1t is doomed,
thank God, and the poor, deluded
fools who won't or can't let it alone
when it is around are pretty we'll
protected against the temptations Of
the "sparkling mountain dew"
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