Charlotte, July 14—Miss Myrtle Fisher, 19, of charlotte, was fatally injured here tonight when struck by an automobile alleged to have been driven by Mrs. Allen T. Black of Waynesville. Mrs. Black was placed in jail without bond in connection with the accident.
Miss Fisher died at a local hospital where she was taken after being hit by the automobile as she stepped from a street car.
In the large coupe with Mrs. Black was her sister, Miss Eva Holsenback of Charlotte. Riding on the left fender was Miss Cleo Adas and on the right fender was her sister, Miss Jessie Adams, both of Charlotte. “I didn’t know the street car was going to stop,” Mrs. Black pleaded tonight at the police station. “It stopped so suddenly. As soon as I knew the girl had been hit, I brought the car to a stop.”
Mrs. Black said she was driving at a very moderate speed.
“It all happened so suddenly,” she said, “I didn’t know I had hit anyone until Cleo screamed.”
Miss Cleo Adams, who was riding on the left fender, said that as the car struck the young woman, she threw up her hand in an attempt to keep from going under the automobile.
“I grabbed her hand,” Miss Adams said, “but she went under anyhow.”
Attempts to arrange bond for Mrs. Black proved futile as Coroner Frank Hovis, said by police to be the only person empowered to set bond in such a case, was out of the city.
Mrs. Black was placed in the same cell with Nellie Freeman, on trial in Superior Court for the death of her husband.
Mrs. Black’s husband is said to be overseer at Brookford orchards, Waynesville.
From front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, July 15, 1926
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