Charlotte, March 1—One of the “Four Horsemen” has been abroad in Charlotte since Friday night, three persons having met violent deaths during that period.
The latest victim of the grim reaper was three-year-old John Francis Winchester, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raiford Winchester, who died late last night of injuries sustained earlier in the evening when struck by an automobile driven by a negro, William Johnson. The accident occurred in front of his parents’ home on the Dixie road, five miles from Charlotte.
The child was with an uncle who was repairing his automobile parked by the side of the highway and is thought to have stepped from behind that machine directly into the path of the negro’s machine.
Funeral services for the child were held this afternoon at 4 o’clock at Steel Creek Presbyterian Church. Interment was in the church cemetery.
Captain Franklin Stutts, 78, of the Charlotte fire department, died Friday night of injuries sustained when he was struck by a trolley car on North Tryon Street. Funeral services were held this afternoon, and he was laid to rest in Elmwood cemetery.
John Edward Sanders, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Sanders of Elizabeth Avenue, who was killed late Friday night when struck by an automobile while at play near his home, was buried this afternoon.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, March 2, 1925
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