Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-09-18
GIRL KILLED ON
SHELBURNE ROAD
Hazel Riggs Body Hurled 30
Feet by Unidentified Auto
Which Flees in Darkness

Miss Hazel V. Rugg Of Clymer street
was instantly killed at the junction Of
Clymer street and Shelburne road at
| about $40 o'clock last night, when she
was struck by speeding automobile.
apparently filled with joy-riders, which
kept on its way at even a higher rate
of speed, according to spectators, while
the tail light was switched off and the
front lights dimmed in order to prevent
the number plates from being seen. Miss
Rugg was 20 years of age and was en-
ployed at the Vermont Spool e Bobbin
Co.'S works on Champlain street.
Miss Rugg left her home about five
minutes after eight o'clock for the pur-
pose of coming into the city. She walked
down Clymer street to the car line. A
street car was going down Shelburne
road toward Queen City Park. The young
lady. hearing the car, evidently thought
that it was headed toward the city. for
she stepped out near the track, and was
seen by the motorman. Roy Bryant. Then.
seeing that the car was going south. Miss
Rugg started back across the street to
the sidewalk, from which she had come.
She evidently did not see the auto
mobile speeding toward her and was
| struck before she could get out of the
way. She was thrown a distance of near
| ly 80 feet in northerly direction her body
being found about three feet from the
car track some feet north of Clymer
street.
! There was absolutely no sackeninG of
speed on the part of the driver OF the
automobile, according to witnesses of
the tragedy. Conductor William Malone
and Motorman Roy Bryant of the street
car which reaches the Park avenue switch
about $40 O'Clock saw the girl come out
| on the road as If she We're about to take
| the car. They saw the automobile speed
ing towards her and then saw her start
| to go back across the road. They did not
! see the car hit her, as they were past
! the spot at that time, but they heard
a crash. They tried to get the number
of the automobile, but the dimminG of the
lights and the increased speed prevented
it. Investigation later brought to light
n piece of the mud-guard of the ma
chine, which had evidently been broken
off when the machine hit her.
| Upon the arrival Of the police patrol
it was found that the girls hat was in
the grass on the opposite side Of the car
tracks from where she was lying One
! shoe was off and lying some distance from
the body. Hair pins and hat pins We're
scattered about the road. The body was
not badly bruised be.ow the hips but
the upper part was almost unrecogniza-
BILE. according to reports of those who saw
| II first.
| The girl is survived by her father and
mother. Leon w. and Maude G. Rugg, and
by one sister, Frcda Nj. Rugg, all of this
city. The body was removed to the un-
dertaking parlors of Corbin & Frye. where
an autopsy was performed by Health OIL
Ger Charles \. RaVcy and DR.. G. +. Whit
ney No funeral arrangements have been
made as yet.
! About II: 80 O'Clock last night, the auto
mobile of Edward 7. Daley of 54 Spruce
street. travelling salesman, was found
by the police with Il piece of the mud
guard broken on and an officer was at
once sent to bring Daley to the police
station to explain this circumstance The
man was found at his home and offered
no objection to accompanying the officer
to the station. He appeared to know
nothing about the accident and claimed
that he had been In Williston all tho
evening with the car. and that he would
produce witnesses to prove II. His car is
a Cadillac with the number 16,345