Miss Lena Farrington of High Point died a few minutes after a car in which she and Miss Ethel Brown were being driven at a high rate of speed by W.F. Everhart of Thomasville on the High Point-Winston-Salem road was wrecked Saturday night. Miss Farrington’s neck was broken. Miss Brown was painfully but not seriously injured.
Everhart was arrested and placed in jail at High Point, spending the night there. He was released Sunday morning under a $2,500 bond. He will be given a preliminary hearing some time this week.
From information obtained by Deputy Sheriff J.F. Wagner, who reached the scene of the accident a short while after the car was wrecked, it appears that Everhart was driving at an excessive speed and in turning a curve he lost control of the automobile, which ran into the yard of George Penny and struck a fence. The two young women were thrown from the car. Everhart clung to the steering wheel.
It is said that Everhart and Miss Brown had been out riding and meeting Miss Farrington, invited her to ride with them. She had been in the car only a few minutes when it was smashed.
Miss Farrington, who was 18 years old, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Farrington. She was buried this afternoon at High Point.
Everhart is the son of S.L. Everhart, a well known farmer, who lives about five miles west of Thomasville.
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Dies in Auto Smash. . . Robert McPherson Killed When Car Hits Telephone Pole
Robert McPherson, aged 25, of Gibsonville, was instantly killed, and Horace Hamilton of this city and W.M. Pyrtle of Reidsville were painfully hurt about 7:30 o’clock Saturday night when an automobile in which they were riding left the asphalt on East Market street extension, just at the city limits here, and struck a telephone pole.
Prytle, who was driving the machine, was carried from the hospital, after having his injuries attended to, and placed in the city jail, charged with murder. Hamilton, who was also carried to the hospital for attention, went from there to his home. The injuries the two men received were sustained on their hands and legs.
The three men, according to the story Pyrtle told the police, were driving into Greensboro after a drive on the Burlington road. He said that while he was passing a machine coming from the opposite direction he turned to the right and was not able to get back in the road, thus hitting the telephone pole.
Other information given the police, however, was to the effect that the car was being driven at a rapid rate of speed and that the driver lost control of his machine in turning a slight curve. Police said that none of the three appeared to have been drinking.
The car belonged to McPherson. It was completely wrecked. The right wheel struck the pole and parts of the machine were thrown several feet from the wreck.
McPherson leaves his widow and two children; his mother, Mrs. D.C. McPherson of White Oak; a brother, Tom McPherson of Proximity; four sisters, Mrs. Will Carter of Kernersville, Mrs. Clarence Foust of Jamestown, Mrs. J.Z. Moore of White Oak, and Mrs. Ida Parrish of Pomona.
From the front page of the Greensboro Patriot, Monday, Feb. 17, 1922
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