W.W. Walsh Dies When Run Over By Motorcycle in Charlotte, March 30, 1922

Accident Fatal for W.W. Walsh. . . Local Man Dies Following Collision With Youth on Motorcycle—Body Brought Here

The following account of a distressing accident, which occurred in Charlotte Tuesday evening, in which Mr. W.W. Walsh, local man and son-in-law of Mr. H.L. Hyder, received fatal injuries, is taken from the Charlotte Observer:

As a result of a fractured skull, sustained when he was run over by a motorcycle driven by Ransom McMahan, 17-year-old son of B.R. McMahan of 411 East Sixth Street, at the corner of Davidson and Ninth streets at 5:30 yesterday afternoon, W.W. Walsh, a carpenter in the employ of Propst Contracting Company, died at St. Peter’s Hospital at 7:20 last night. He was 45 years of age.

Mr. Walsh, who had been in Charlotte about two months working on a construction job, was apparently going to his home at the end of his day’s work. As he approached the corner of Davidson and Ninth streets, he evidently saw the motorcycle coming up Ninth street toward Caldwell.

According to young McMahan, both endeavored to dodge each other an in attempting to do so, each mistook the supposed intention of the other and collided, resulting in Mr. Walsh being knocked down and both wheels passing over his head.

Young McMahan immediately went to a drug store and telephoned for Rogers’ ambulance, at the same time informing the police department of the accident. The young man was taken to police headquarters, where he is here, pending an investigation, and Mr. Walsh was rushed to St. Peter’s hospital, where he died later in the evening. He never regained consciousness.

The deceased had resided in Forest City until he came here a short while ago to work for the Propst company as a carpenter. He is survived by a wife and two children in Forest City.

As there were no witnesses, other than two small children and one woman about two blocks away, when the accident occurred, it is not known whether a preliminary hearing will be held in recorder’s court or whether a coroner’s inquest will be the means of determining whether or not McMahan was to blame for the accident.

From the front page of The Forest City Courier, March 30, 1922