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Show Autoist in Accident Hurting Girl, Fined Mai iun Smith, charged with drlvlag aii automobile past a streetiar fx- c barging pasacngere. on Jahuars 25, 1 was i iio d or -0 rlays when he ap-' poared before the city court this morn-j lag. He entered a plea of guilty Smith, in explanation, said that he bad been driving south on Washington Washing-ton avenue 6n Hip morning of Jantiary The streetcar, which be was follow-' log. stopped suddenly, he claimed, and Alice Wall alighted from the oar. In his effort to miss her. he ran into the) girl, knocking her to the pavement.) The accident resulted in u compound! fracture of the girl's leg and minor' bruises She w as taken to the hospital I under Smith's direction and he paid) her for the time she was absent from I her work, her hospital expenses and the ambulance expenses, he stated. Smith said that the suddiin stopping, of the streetcar wai the cause of thj accident. op |