The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-10-09
TRUCK SNUFFS
OUT LIFE GIRL
Myrtle Van HooSer Meets In
Stant Death When Struck
Down on Boulevard.
COMPANION BADLY HURT
Mrs. Florence Martin Rushed
to Hospital With Both
Legs Broken.
COMPANION BADLY HURT

a big army truck, en- route 20
chattanooga from Fort oalethorpe
ABOUT Has o'clock Friday nIuht
,en horrible death and frlahtfuI
Little ~ sd Myrtle Van
h., hno0ser,s n hs' As torn open and
mark. ma O0oy oS crushed Blood
the distano ar 'avems"s Mss srsosnd Indicted s,.sa
being run s H.. Death was in.
tantaneuo
Mrs. Flqg s Martins legs were botl
broken s also sustained II wounC
IN the he = I'D other injuries.
The ts accident occurred on the
Donleyys Foftyeishth street almost
lmmedk after Mrs. Martin and the
Van Hooser child, her mother and
others alghted from a street car on
their way home from the fair.
Wann's ambuances were called and
hurried to the scene, removing the little
girl 70 the morgue ON Georgia avenue.
Mrs Martin was picked up by an army
truck and brought to Newells infirm-
arN, Where she received immediate at
tentlon.
..A Driver Arrested.
Within short time after the truck
STRUCK the woman and child soldier
hicKnamed "Smittey," and said to be
Harry smith. was arrested on q charge
on mansIaughter. His preliminary hear
,nE is que to come up early next week
pelore Squire j. j. Bork. Another sol
ul@r SAID to have been on the seat with
smith was driving, it was claimed.
Inc truck was loaded with city girls
VINO mad attended dance at the post.
us number was obtained as it left the
pace OF the accident.
Atty. Gen, G. W. Chamlee announced
saturday morning that the matter would
be thoroughly investigated
Mrs Martin is from McMinnville and
resides on Forty eighth street, in the
1900 block
Myrtle Van Hooser was daughter
of Mrs. Molie Van Hooser. residing
on Forty eighth street and the boule-
ward. The mother Is employed in the
mill at Rossville
Soldier Arrested.
smith was picked up by deputy
sherIhs, and the other soldier.
whose name, the police were In.
formed was r. Brooks, is under ar.
rest at Fort ogIethorpe.
An ambulance man of Wann's re-
to a cali from Rossvllc, met
IN army truck which had stopped on the
,oAJeNard. near East End Thinking
he accident might have occurred there,
le stopped TO make inquiry, and ex-
>lted conversation attracted his attend
ION He heard some one in a big tour
ng gar that was also stopped near the
ruoK say, we are going TO bring you
o town"
informed that no one had been hurt
mere, the ambulance attendant hurried
o kossNille and arrived about the time
mother ambulance Of Wanns was taxi
hG the little girl away. Her injuries
we're described as terrible. e.
Falure to find any woman hurt
aused inquiry that brought forth the
nlormation she had already been sent
0 hospital in an army truck
Crowd was Indignant
notwithstanding the IateneSS of the
our good crowd quickly gathered
t the scene of the accident
AT the county jail Smith told a frank,
story. claiming he had
othing to do with the driving of the
ruCk
The Van Hooser child was one OF
even sisters. She has a brother. A |
. Van Hooser. The body was sent al !
10 Saturday afternoon to McMinn- |
ule, where the funeral and lnterment |
I'll take place on Sunday