The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-18
Special to the Richmond Ntrginian.
Killed When Engine Hit Auto.

Petersburg, April li.--F1oyd Splers,
about % years of age. an unmarried
farmer Of Carsons. Va. WAS killed ana
Buck Hawkins, also single, was badly
hurt this morning near Carsons when
the fast Atlantic Coast Line passenger
train crashed into their stalled auto
mobile on a grade crossing. Spiers
lived a few minutes after the accident,
but was unable to speak. Hawkins
was taken TO his home badly bruised
and II is thought he is suffering with
internal injuries He Is reported to-
night az resting well.
Engineer Kenneth Smith, of this
city, who was in charge of the pas
senger train engine, says the auto
stopped dead still on the tracks as
the fast train approached and t1tt il
was impossible for him TO stop the
train in time to avoid striking the
car Hawkins is said to have claimed
that building near the crossing cut
eff his view of the track and he did
not see the fast approaching train.
He was driving the car at the time
and just as the auto was in the middle
of the track, he saw the locomotive
bearing down on him and attempted
to put on more speed. Instead of the
! ear going forward when the gas was
/ applied. IL stopped dead still and be-
/ fore the men had chance to jump,
the train hit the car
! Hawkins had just returned from
| service in the army and was employed
| in a garage at Carsons An inquest
viii be held over the body of Spiers
| True Bill Against simmons.
| Sitting at the April term of musings
! court of this city today, the grand Jury
! returned true bill against Lester +.
| Simmons the former Virginia league
baseball player, charged with shoot
| ing and killing Richard Harris, "a
young white man of this city, in the
| formers place of bushes on North
| Sycamore street. on the night of April
4fh. His trial was set fer April Both
by Judse Mullen, before whom the
case viii be tried.
| Simmons is at liberty under a
! $40 bail bond He was given pre-
| liminary hearing in police court sew
eral days after the Killing and p!eaden
self-defense His counsel asked tha'
he be dismissed on the charge at TINS
hearing. hut he was held for the grand
| Jury by Justice Clements
| Tho CIGAR store and soda fountain
| OF Simmons, where the shooting took
place. was destroyed on Monday night
by FIRE OF undetermined origin
Youths Arrested for Thcfts.
Irving and Lloyd Traylor, aged IL
and 10 wears respectively, and broth
srs. were arrested at their home on
the river road to Chesterfield county
this morning and brought to the local
| Jail to await trial on the charge 81
| stealing $500 from the home of John
| r. Eanes, merchant, in the vicinity
Of the 'Fraylor boys home both poys
| deny taking the money and claim
that the l2-year old son of Eanes took
the money from his fathers store
| and gave it to them.
The younger Travlor boy, however
admits receiving s400 from the Eanes
boy and says that he gave his brother
part OF tho money, with which he
went to Baltimore and bought WINS
key.
The allcre theft occurred about
three weeks ago and the youths We're
arrested this morning by Detective
Guinan. OF this city, and Magistrate
| Cousins Of Chesterfield.