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Show AGED WOMAN STEPS OFF A 'MOVING CAR Last evening at about 3 o'clock Mrs A. M Hotallng, nearly 65 jcais old, stepped from a Rapid Transit sticct car on Washington avenue, near Twenty-sixth street, whllo it wno In motion and was thrown heavily lo the pacmont. Buffering a scalp wouui end numeious bruises She was rendered ren-dered unconscious and It rcqulied the services of a physician to revive her Why the aged lady stopped from th0 car w'hile it was moving irannoi 10 accounted for by those who witnessed the accident It seems that Mrs Hotallng Ho-tallng moved from the portal of tho cur when It approached the point where she Intended to alight, without realizing that the car was still 'n motion. The car was running six or seven miles an hour and when tho aged woman struck the ground sho was hurled headlong ou the pavement The conductor says he noticed tha lady arise ttom her scit as the car w-as pusslng Herrlck aenuo and he supposed she desired to alight at Herrlck Her-rlck avenue. He gave the motorman the signal to stop at Herrick, but before be-fore the car had begun to slow down Mrs. Hotaling had stepped fronj the car. |