Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-12-21
BOTH KILLED NEAR
ATLANTA TUESDAY
Car Leaps From Bridge In 30 Foot
Cut Onto Railway Track

The friends of the family were
shocked when the first telegram re-
ceived by the Leader Enterprise an
nounced the horrible death of Redmond
L Jones, near Atlana Tuesday morn
ing at 1890. when his automobile
plunged down a thirty foot embank-
ment and onto the tracks of the Sou
them Railway near Bolton, station
on the Southern a few miles out of
Atlanta Mr.. J. A. Jones. his brother
was Immediately apprised of the &C
'cident and the family notified by
friends and intimate associates.
The entire community sincerely
sympathizes with the bereaved wife
and children in this terribly tragedy
! The Atlanta Journal carried the
following account of the tragedy:
Mrs. Dewey Webster and Redmond
l.. Jones. both of Fitzgerald, victims
of the automobile tragedy at Lowry
town bridge, on the Bolton road on
Monday night, were killed when their
car plunged over the embankment near
the bridge, and not as result of the
collision with Southern Railway
passenger train, coroner's jury de-
clded late Tuesday, after an inquest in
the chapel of Donehoo & Bazemore
DR.. R. H. Noble. Jr.. county physi-
clan. testified that in his opinion both
victims were dead before the train
struck them.
Officer Allen of the County police
declared he found whisky bottle and
fruit jar in the wrecked car, and that
both had recently contained intoxicants
in his opinion.
The jury was out but fifteen min
utes.
Among the witnesses were L. A..
Goodwin, fireman; Engineer Lane who
was driving the engine and Conductor
J. M. Jackson, in charge of the train.
They testified that the train was
travelling at speed of about fifty
miles an hour when the collision oc-
CURED; that the wrecked automobile
lay across the tracks upside down;
and that it had been impossible to see
it in time to stop because of a curve
in the railway tracks. They said that
the car was dragged more than 100
yards before he emergency brakes
could stop the train.
The death car plunged into the
deep cut at the curve approaching the
narrow wooden bridge 1t turned tur-
tie and lay upside down on the tracks
square1y in the path of Southern pas
senger train No. 7. The locomotive
struck the wrecked|car and ground to
pieces the bodies of the accident vic
Tins
Mr.. Jones was prominent business
man of Fitzgerald. He is survived by
his widow and four small sons.
husband. a baby boy. and her father,
w. A. Taylor of Fitzgerald
The remains of Mr.. Jones were
brought to the city this morning, ac-
companied from Atlanta by his sister,
and brother-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. &C.
Gil Manning of Marietta and his sis
ter. Mrs. Bessie Boyd of Washington.
D. c. who was visiting her sister in
Marietta at this time. The deceased
had been in Rome and stopped over
for brief visit at Marietta to see his
sisters. whom he had affectionately
bid good bye but short time before
his terrible plunge down into the 30
foot railroad cut.
Besides the grief stricken wife, four
sons, Carol, Sam. Elmer and Louie,
his mother Mrs. Nellie Jones, his bro
Their, ]. A. Jones and five sisters, Mes
DANES Wilmer Turner. of this city.
Cecil Manning of Marietta. Hershel
Smith of Offerman, James Boyd Of
Washington, D. c., and Ralph Glass.
of Canton Ohio, and his father, Mr..
Jones of Washington, D. c.. survive
him.
The funeral was conducted at the
Central Methodist Church, of which
the deceased was a member, conduct
ed by Rev. Whitley Langston. the
pastor. -.
The funeral of Mrs. Webster will
be held this evening at the family
burial grounds seven miles this side
of Sycamore. conducted by Elder w.
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