Art Wiggins Struck by Car as He Chases Chicken, Aug. 21, 1925

Mr. Art Wiggs was knocked down by Mr. Alex Edgerton’s Cadillac Tuesday evening. Mr. Wiggs sustained a broken leg and other bruises. Miss Ophelia Edgerton was at the wheel at the time of the accident. The car had just started from the drug store and was moving very slowly. At the time there was a truck along the curbing and the Edgerton car was passing very close to the truck.

Mr. Wiggs was trying to catch a chicken and ran out from behind the truck and directly in front of the car. The car was stopped in three feet and the wheels of the car did not pass over Mr. Wigg’s leg as was supposed. Mr. Wiggs is an excellent man and a careful and caution man and all the citizens of the town regret very much his accident.

Mr. Alex Edgerton and Miss Edgerton were almost prostrate because of the accident, and they remained in town until late in the night, waiting near the office of Dr. Stevens, where Dr. Aycock was assisting in setting the broken limb and dressing the bruises.

From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Friday morning, August 21, 1925

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