Jasper Morgan, 17-year-old son of Mrs. M.L. Morgan of 201 Jackson street, is being detained at police headquarters without bond pending the outcome of the condition of Susie Craig, negress, wife of the chauffeur of R.O. Everett, who gave her address as 218 Poplar street. While no charge had been officially entered against Morgan at noon today, he is being held as the result of an accident which occurred about 11:15 o’clock this morning, and in which the Ford “skeeter,” driven by Morgan knocked down and ran over the negress.
Officer Caudle of the local police department, who was near the scene of the accident, placed Morgan under arrest, whole Officers Massey and Sykes rushed the negress to Lincoln hospital, where preliminary examination showed that the woman was not believed to be fatally injured. According to Officer Caudle, Morgan was driving on West Main street, and the negress was standing in the middle of the street at the intersection of Corcoran and Main streets waiting to cross.
The boy is alleged to have swerved to the left, the left front light knocking the woman to the street, where the left front wheel passed over her face. The boy then stopped his machine but before the woman could crawl from beneath the car, the boy, according to Officer Caudle, threw the machine in gear and started to the curb, with the result that the left rear wheel passed over the woman’s chest. Morgan’s car was barely moving when the accident occurred, it was stated.
From page 2 of The Durham Sun, May 29, 1925. In 1925, a “skeeter” was a type of open-wheel racer or a stripped-down vehicle.
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