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Show AUTO DRIVER FLEES AFTER HITTING BOY Witness, Who Took Car Number, Says Chauffeur Put on Speed When Victim Fell. William N. Howcroft, 11-vcar-old son of, E. E. Howcroft, 139 South Fifth West street, miraculously escaped serious seri-ous injury yesterday when he was thrown from his bicycle and beneath an automobile, said to belong to Mrs. V. O. Carr, and driven by an unknown man, who did not stop to see his victim's vic-tim's injuries. East night Patrolman T. R. Uolightly arrested the driver of machine ro. J3890 on information furnished fur-nished by F. J. Fabian o$ the Ferd J. Fabian conipanv, who witnessed the accident ac-cident and tool the boy home. Howcroft How-croft was proceeding west on First South, neast Sixth Fast, when the auto, au-to, going in the same direction, struck bim. He fell -in- such a way that the car passed over him and left him with minor injuries. The bicycle was wrecked. "I saw the accident and I want to say that the driver should be severely punished," Mr. Fabian said last night. "The fellow did not stop, but put on more gas and disappeared, but I had his number. I took the boy home." The man who was arrested in connection con-nection with the accident, and who was allowed to go without giving his name, on his promise to appear this morning, said the car belonged to Mrs. Carr and that he is her brother. He denied that he was in the machine when the accident acci-dent occurred, or knew who was driving driv-ing it. |