AUTOIST KILLS CHILD
Negligence and Reckless Driving Responsible for Accident
Driver Escapes
An accident which will probably prove fatal occurred on the road above Hillsburgh yesterday when a car described as a gray roadster ran down and probably mortally injured Willy Corbett, the eight-year-old son of Thomas Corbett of that place.
Two laborers in a nearby field, who saw the accident, say that the machine was running on the left side of the road where the child was playing and that but for this reckless violation of the traffic law, the little fellow would not have been run down. The driver was apparently holding to the left of the road, because the running was better there.
Exactly what happened no one seems to know. The autoist stopped, and started again, and when the two laborers had reached the spot where the child lay, the machine was going at the rate of at least forty miles an hour.
All efforts of town and county authorities to locate the gray roadster have failed.
"That's only about ten miles from where I live," said Gilbert Tyson.
Tom seemed to be thinking. "Let's look at that letter again," said he. "Humph," he added and handed it back to Roy.
"What?" Roy asked.
"Nothing," said Tom. "I guess this is the car all right."
"I don't see it," said Winton. "Just because it's a gray roadster——"