The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1920-01-23
THREE ACCIDENTS
IN SUCCESSION
Accidentally Shoots
Student. His Death Fol-
lows. Fathers Auto
CAUSES THIRD ACCIDENT

Raleigh, N. c.. Jan. % covon
dlter 12-year-old Lillian Fer
rel had accidentally shot and l:I1ad
Allen SWAIN, student at Rpies3
creek Academy at Buies Crock q 9
ferrel, father of the girl drova b;s
aiuusoh Supersix into Ford sedan
Iour miles from Raleigh, injuring all
us passengers including Prof J. A
Campbell, head of Buies ACreek
Academy and five students who uaro
accompanying the remains of younp
o"alm to Raleigh. Mr. Ferren, more
or less injured himself. was NOT told
OF the fatality in his own homo and
continued on his way to Buies Creek
from the scene of the accident in on
other can
Ihe injured, none of whom are
dangerously hurt, were rushed to
Rex Hospital for tratment after the
collision on the Fuquay Springs
road, at BIS. They were:
Prof. j. A. Campbell, Buies Creek
head hurt, ear lacerated, body hruis-
ed.
}. T. Creech, Smithfield, hand
mashed, and knee hurt.
T. F. Jordan, Franklinville, bad
ly> scratched and bruised,
S. N. Lambe, Buies Creek, hand
and head injured.
Spurgeon Brigmn, ST. Pauls, side
hurt.
Charles Guide, Winston Salem.
scratched and bruised.
G. S. Ferneu, scratched and bruis-
ed.
Last night all the injured excep
Prof. Campbell. and the two stu
dents, j. T. Creech and T. F.. Jordan
had been discharged from the hos
pital, and these three were resting
we'll. Fears of cOncussion were ex-
pressed when Prof Campbell was
carried to the hospital were dissipat-
ed by an x-ray examination which
disclosed neither fracture nor con
cussion. Prof. Campbell had re-
gained consciousness and when in
formed that members of his family
were hurrying to Raleigh, expressed
a desire to see his family physician
as well.
The shooting of Allen Swain took
nj in ha ~
who moved to Buies Greek recently
from near Raleigh to put his child
rem in school. Mrs. Ferrell, ac-
cording to the story told by students
at the hospital yesterday afternoon,
started about hen housework be-
fore day yesterday, carrying a pistol
in the kitchen with her for protec-
ton in the absence of her husband.
Young Swain. a boarder, came into
the room about breakfast time, re-
moved the cartridges from the re-
volver, toyed with it a bit, snap
ping the trigger. After some Pleas
antres with Mrs. Ferrell about the
use of the weapon in an emergency,
he reloaded it and placed it on
shelf
Twelve-year-old Lillian Ferrel1, in
an adjoining room, heard the con-
versation and the swapping of the
pistol. She came into the room took
the weapon from the shelf, pointed
it directly at Swain and pulled the
trigger. She didn't know it was
loaded.
The ball struck the stndent IN the
right breast. He staggered across
the room to his roommate saying:
'I'm shot L mgoing to die. Lend
for my father and mother
In forty minutes he was dead.
Allen Swain was the son of Rev.
". M. Swain, pastor of South Side
Baptist church, Winston-Salem. He
was sixteen years old.
The tragedy overwhelmed Mrs. Fer
rell and her daughter and threw a
cloak of sorrow about the academy.
Neither the father or the mother of
the dead boy came to Buies Creek
and Professor Campbell made ar
rangements to accompany the body
to Raleigh, where it might be placed
on the afternoon train for Winston
Salem.