The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-26
Hit-Skip Driver FIeeS After
Auto HurIS Man to
Death in Street.
CHILD is POISON VICTIM
2-Year-0Id Girl Swallows
StryChnine Pills; Crash
Kills Teacher.
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Tragic death stalked into three In
dianapolis homes today
In one a child 2 years old ate
poison tablets she thought were
candy.
In another, the father of a new
born baby was the victim of a hit
and-run driver. He was injured ia
tally while on his way home from
the hospital where the baby was
born last night.
In the third, I. veteran man
teacher of the State School for Deaf
was the victim of a motor crash.
The poison tablets were fatal to
Violet HargraveS, 2, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry S. Hargraves,
1647 S. Meridian st.
Eats Strychnine Pills
Climbing on a chair, the child
scraped ten of the chocolate coated
Strychnine pills from the top of a
buffet and ate them Wednesday.
She died at city hospital at 5
this morning.
The mother was Frustrated 81 her
home. The baby was sickly from
birth and nearly died when s
months old, relatives said. Two
other older children survive.
Leroy Arnold. %. of 2944 Scho-
field Ave-. was the victim of the hit
and-run driver. He was in the $500
block on Massachusetts, Ave-, on his
way from city hospital He died at
the hospital early today. The wife
in the same hospital. had not been
notified of the death. Shetwas to
have been taken home today. The
baby was born two weeks ago.
Another child, Coral, II months,
survives.
Killed by Hit-Skip Driver
Arnold, accompanied by George
Parker, 2942 Schofield Ave-, and
George Tuttle, 2933 Hillside Ave,
was driving on Massachusetts, Ave.
when the car ran out of gasoline.
Arnold and Tuttle started toward
a filling station when they were
struck by large touring car
travelling at high rate Of speed.
Arnold was hurled $50 feet into
the gutter and suffered fractured
skull and internal injuries. Tuttle
was injured slightly.
Teacher Dies in Crash
August Jutt so, of 1913 E. Wash
ington St., teacher at the State
School for the Deaf, was injured
fatally in an automobile crash in
the 1900 block E. Twenty First ST.,
early today.
The car in which he was riding
driven by Miss Leola Pfeifer, IS
N. Hawthorne Lane, collided with a
truck driven by Charles Dyke, 49,
1919 E. TWenty-FirSt st. Both cars
were going west. Miss Pfeiffer
started around the truck just as
Dyke started to turn west, police
said. Her machine struck a pile
of dirt.
Jut died at city hospital as the
result of fractured skull and in
ternal injuries. Miss Pfeifer, city
recreation department girls work
supervisor, was not seriously in
jured.
Oldest Teacher in School
Jutt was the Oldest teacher in
point of service at the State School
for the Deaf. Deaf himself, he came
to the school from Jasper, Ind, his
birthplace, when he was 9 and had
been connected with the school ever
since.
The widow, son, Wallace A., liv-
Ing at home; daughter, Mrs. Sarah
Duvall, Washington, D. c.; four
brothers and a sister survive him.
Funeral arrangements have not been
made.
For thirty years Jutt had con-
Quoted a Sunday School class at the
school.
William Reckert, 68, of Ala S. Me-
ridian ST., suffered a fractured right
leg and body bruises Thursday when
struck by an automobile driven by
James o. Parks, 2846 Shriver Ave-,
at Maryanld st. and Virginia Ave
He was taken to city hospital.
Other traffic victims: Mrs. Lucille
Morgan, %, of 4005 w. Washington
ST., body bruises and decorations;
Luther Harrison, 81, of 923 Arbor ST.
cuts; Miss Agatha Fitzf1erald, 18, OF
1858 Standard Ave-, bruises.