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Show NEWSBOY RUN OVER BY AN AUTOMOBILE "Sandy" Fowler, Nino Years Old, Escapes Es-capes With Nothing but a Bad Fright. CCC ANDY" POWLER. a newsboy, W 9 years old, .was lenocked down 3 run ovcl' by an automo bile Inst evening, but it never fenzed him. "Sandy" was lielng chased by some other boys on Main street, near Second South, when T. H. Sanders drove up In an automobile, behind which was a. "dead" machine in tow. The newsboy got out of the way of tho first auto, but failed to sec tho trailer. With his entire attention devoted to the boys who were after him, the newsboy Ibocked into the second machine, at about the middle of it, on the side, and was knocked down, the rear wheel running over his leg above the ankle. The boy was badly frightened at first and bvstanders picked him up and carried car-ried him Into Smith's drug store. An examination was made and when It was dTCcovercd that he was not hurt "Sandy" "San-dy" got his papers together and tried to work them off in the crowd that "had been attracted by his misfortune, "Here's yer rextry." lie cried lustily, but when the people learned that he had no bones broken they lost interest in the lad and refused to buy his wares. It was considered nlmost a miracle that the heavy machine did not crush the boy's leg. Mr Sanders lvad a man riding In the trailing machine to guide it. but the boy dodged against it so quickly that there was not time to get it out of his way. |