Child Meets Death Under Automobile.
Ernest Stevens [sic], six year old son of Allen Stevens [sic], as struck by a car and almost instantly killed
Saturday afternoon late at Goodnight. Both wheels of the car passed over the child's head. The car was
driven by Miss Agnes Smalley of Carlinville, Ill., who had been in Tennessee to visit Miss Blanche Kenedy
who lives at Normal, Ill., but was teaching in Tennessee.
Mr. Allen Stevens and the little boy were standing by the roadside and the child started to cross the
road just as the ladies were passing. The father, it is said, saws the child and attempted to stop him and
came near being struck himself. The little victim was buried Sunday afternoon at Goodnight.
A warrant was served on Miss Smalley charging her with being on the wrong side of the road and
excessive driving. An examining trial was held Monday afternoon and it was proven that the accident
was unavoidable and Miss Smalley was released.
Mr. Stevens commenced a $5,000 damage suit against Miss Smalley and Miss Kennedy Monday and
attached their car. Later attorneys for both parties agreed to release the attachment and they left
Tuesday morning for their homes in Illinois.
Miss Kennedy is superintendent of a Grammar school in Kingsport and Miss Smalley is librarian at a
college in Washington state.
They were enroute to their homes in the North when the tragedy occurred and it being their vacation
they had planned a visit to Mammoth Cave, Lincoln farm, and several other points of interest in
Kentucky.
Burial at the Smith Cemetery, stone shown s/o of Mr and Mrs Allen Stephens - stone is now down.
Undated Glasgow KY newspaper.
Ernest STEPHENS - 3 Sept 1922 - 22 June 1929 |
