One night last week about 11 o’clock a terrifying collision occurred on the highway below Dellaplane, not far from Mr. George Sale. Mr. Will Pardue and family were returning home in a wagon from preaching going you way when a new Ford driven by Jack Martin ran into the team. Mr. Pardue’s wife was sitting on the front of the wagon with him holding her baby when the smash came. She caught the wagon wheel with one hand, and swung onto the baby in her other arm. She was hurt so that the doctor had to be called. Mr. Pardue was thrown or knocked entirely from the wagon a distance. The other children, who were back in the open-bed wagon were somewhat asleep when the shock came and were not injured.
One mule was whirled clean round against the hind wheel and its head nearly cut off having been rammed thru and over the back see where its head is thought to have caught on a stay and cut just behind the jaw half way round the neck. It was afterwards given away.
The driver and associate got away at the time. The car was put in care of Mr. Worth Sale; it was surmised that the car was driven by Martin, and sure enough Martin claimed it next day but Deputy Sheriff Bumgarner went down and arrested martin and placed him in jail.
A hearing was had before a justice of the peace and the negro remanded to jail for the time. Effort will probably be made to have the negro secure Mr. Pardue for damage in some way; the car belonged to the negro’s step father, Parks in Wilkesboro, which he had gotten and was returning from Elkin where he had gone to see some of his folks. He admitted negligence and said he was not looking but was looking into the face of the negro beside when the clash came in open level Mr. Pardue being on the right side of the road the negro said.
From the front page of The North Wilkesboro Hustler, Nov. 7, 1923
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