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Millie Sanders Critically Wounded When Struck by Car, Nov. 18, 1924

Colored Woman Hurt by Auto Saturday Night

Millie Sanders, colored, is in the Smithfield Memorial Hospital critically ill as the result of an automobile accident which occurred on the streets here Saturday night. About 7 o’clock, as Mr. Raymond Stephenson was driving toward the station, the colored woman stepped out from behind a car which he was passing, and was run over. Mr. Stephenson was driving slowly and the accident was said to be unavoidable.

The woman was carried to the hospital, where it was found that her skull was fractured. At last report she was still unconscious.

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From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 1924

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