The body of Charles Tull, 7-year-old son of Mrs. C.B. Tull of 1903 Park Drive, who died following injuries sustained when struck by an automobile Sunday about noon, was taken Monday morning to Wadesboro for interment. No inquest will be held by Coroner Frank Hovis as an investigation Sunday by this official and police indicated that the accident was unavoidable.
The car which struck the child was being driven by Charles Nicholson, 17-year-old son of Rev. W.L. Nicholson. The accident occurred near the end of the Elizabeth Street car line on East Seventh Street about 12:30 o’clock as the Nicholson family was returning home from church services. The child was picked up by the Nicholson machine and taken to the Presbyterian hospital, but he died almost immediately after being taken into the hospital and before medical attention could be given.
Several people who witnessed the accident reported to Police Chief Walter B. Orr that the boy ran from behind an Elizabeth Street car into the front of the Nicholson automobile. The machine was said not to have been going at a rapid rate of speed at the time. Young Tull and two other children were said to have been swinging on the rear end of the Elizabeth Street car, and had jumped off and started across the street to the sidewalk when the automobile approached.
The skull of the boy was fractured, his leg broken and the body cut and bruised in several places. Two or three physicians were at the hospital when he was taken to a room, but he died before they could give him medical attention.
Charles Tull is the second son of Mrs. C.B. Tull. His father died during the influenza epidemic of two years ago. Wadesboro is the former home of Mrs. Tull and for that reason the body was taken there for burial. Funeral and interment were to take place Monday afternoon.
From The Charlotte News, May 30, 1921
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