The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
Bessemer Farmer Fatally Hurt When Struck
 By Negro FOUR OTHERS
 BADLY INJURED Two Small Tots Orphaned
 In. Holiday
 Crash CAR CRIPPLES
 BICYCLE RIDER Motorist Severely Cut When He Strikes Rear Of
 Parked Auto

Three residents of the Birming- ham district were killed and three others seriously injured in i've Christmas automobile accidents Thursday.
 The death toll;
 Mir. and Mrs. A. +. Lanham of 36z' Twenty sixth street, north, crushea 'o death when their car went over hieh embankmcnt on tMe Birmip gham-Merld ian highway, near Livingston.
 Fred Bobo of Route 3,-Bessemer, killed near Thomas station when ms car crashed into another driven Dy Gold Kato, Ensley negro.
 The injured:
 An unidentified white man, danger ously cut by flying glass when he drove into a parked car on Eighth avenue, near Twelfth street.
 IT l.. Southerland of 3S11 Avenue D. whose skull was fractured when hls car was hit at Eighth avenue anu Charles street by car driven by Joe Dunn of 3637 Avenue D. Fairfield.
 Henry Echols. negro, perhaps maimed for life when his bicycle was rammed by fast-moving automobile on Ninth street, near Second avenue. Identity of the car driver could not be learned by police.
 Couple Killed
 Mir. and Mrs. Lanham were killed outright early Christmas morning when their car plunged over Il steep embank- ment five miles north of Livingston, according to an Age-Herald dispatch
 With the couple in the automobile were NJ. E. Gould brother of Mrs. Lanham; Mrs. NJ. D. Gould, Mrs. Lan- hams mother: Fred Fin and Ernest Godfrey, all of whom escaped unhurt. The last named four are of Livings- ton.
 The fatal accident occurred when the machine, driven by LanhaIn, was returning to Livingston from friend home in the country. Tho car, 1t IS said, was moving rapidly since 1t was the plHpOse of the occupants to re- turn to the Gould home and make the finishing touches on a Christmas tree prepared earlier in the evening for the Lanham children, Helen, 9, and Eliza beth 13.
 Die Instantly
 According to reports, 1anham turned to catch a remark made by one ot those in the back seat and failed to sec sharp curve in the roadway. The au- tomobile broke through fence along the side of the road and drunkenly pitched 20 feet down the embankment where it was halted by growth of trees. Mir. and Mrs. Lanham, in the front seat, were thrown through the windshield and died instantly.
 Il, To -nrn held at Livingston Christmas after noon. Lanham was travelling sales man for the F. F.. PenderGrass, of Louisville, and has lived in Birming- ham for several years Previous to coming to Birmingham he was located at Jasper. He is about 10 years old and his wife around 30.
 The Lanhams, accompanied by their two children, left Birmingham Sunday to spend the holidays with Mrs. Lan- hams mother. They had expected to return the last of the week.
 BobO Victim
 Mir. Bobo, victim of the East Thomas crash, died at Norwood hospital few minutes after he was placed on the op- crating table. His car rammcd car driven by Gold Kato, negro of Ensley.
 Miss Beula Bobo, who was riding with her brother, was uninjured, though the automobile WAS wrecked. Bobo was thrown violently against the steering wheel, which broke, piercing and crush ing his lungs
 The dead mans sister told the police hat the negro's automobile was going at swift rate in front of them and suddenly stopped. Kato was running without lights, she claimed. and her brother could not stop in time to avoid tho crash.
 Kato told the police he had stopped on the road to put up his curtains when Bobo's automobile came from behind and struck him. All of his lights were ournnig. he claims. He surrendered to (COntinued on page twO)