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Show j Boy's Leg Broken n In Auto Accident HI Yimiiik Lady Hiding Alone hi Ante Hi Ittiiis Dint n (light Year Old Lad, t' Knocks Him riiciiiiscliuiN and IB llrcaks UN Let;. B Wlllard, Hie eight-year-old son or jBtp Mr. and Mrs. Charles Heck, was run Hb?) down with an automobile Wedues- jHf t day about two o'clock, and received Hf a compound fracture of the left lrg Hj,' and bad bruises on his left arm and Hli head. H The auto was owned by John Wood, HjS nnd was being driven by his daugh- nl ter, MIsb Mary Wood, who was out aEJ . with tho nuto alono for the first time. fifK Soon as Miss Wood saw what had mtW liappoued she stopped tho machine at If onco, and with tho nsslstauco of a Imm teacher she placed the lad in the aulo H and hurried to a doctor's olllcc. The UB bono was found to have protruded ttjjm thiough the skin, and tho little fol- R low sat unflinchingly without an an- win tfcoptlc while tho fracture was being Will reduced. Soon as this was done he njlj foil asleep through exhaustion. TJlfJ It appears that as Miss Wood came WBk down Contor Street a crowd of school nf children camo running out from the IMp school grounds, and although the 91 young lady tooted tho horn and shout- ul' od, tho Deck boy ran Into tho nuto if'?' Bhw r - - fender and was knocked down. Miss Woods Is (iilte sure that tho mnchlae did not pass over tho boy, though somo others think It did. From the fact that she stopped so quickly It is evident that she was not going veiy fast, and she Is (o be commended for doing everything possible nfter-waids nfter-waids to reduce the lad's sufferlnr;. Lust reports are that the boy Is pro. greasing nicely with no probabllty of peimaiieiit bad results |