Note: NONPAREIL NEWSPAPER MAY 1914 IN LIDGETT CASE JURY HEARS EVIDENCE AS TO DEATH OF LIDGETT GIRL TILL LATE IN DAY. THE JURY SUMMONED BY CORONER I. H. CUTLER TO MAKE INVESTIGATION WAS OCCUPIED UNTIL AFTER 3 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON HEARING TESTIMONY OF WITNESSES TO THE ACCIDENT IN WHICH 5-YEAR OLD ELIZABETH LIDGETT WAS KNOCKED DOWN AND RAN OVER BY AN AUTOMOBILE DRIVEN BY MRS. G.W. MCDONALD IN FAIRMOUNT PARK FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THE JURY RETURNED THIS VERDICT: WE FIND THAT ELIZABETH LIDGETT CAME TO HER DEATH THROUGH INJURIES ACCIDENTLY RECEIVED IN FAIRMOUNT PARK MAY 25 BY AN AUTOMOBILE DRIVEN BY MRS. GEORGE MCDONALD. MRS. MCDONALD WAS AMONG THE WITNESSES, AS ALSO WAS WILLIAM PORTER, AN EMPLOYEE AT WALNUT HILL CEMETERY, WHO WAS SPENDING THE AFTERNOON AT THE PARK WITH HIS CHILDREN, MARTIN JENSEN, AN EMPLOYEE IN FAIRMOUNT PARK, MRS. E.H. SYLVESTER, PRESIDENT OF THE OAK STREET MOTHERS AND TEACHERS CLUB, WHO WAS ASSISTING IN CONDUCTING THE PICNIC OF OAK SCHOOL PUPILS AND SEVERAL OTHER MOTHERS AND TEACHERS WHO WERE BUSY PREPARING THE LUNCH AT TABLES NEAR THE SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT. THE TESTIMONY OF THE MAJORITY OF WITNESSES INDICATED THAT THEY BELIEVE THE AUTOMOBILE TO HAVE BEEN ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD WHEN THE CHILD WAS STRUCK, AND THAT THE LITTLE ONE FIRST WAS KNOCKED DOWN AS THE CAR WAS BACKED AND THEN RUN OVER AGAIN BY THE LEFT REAR WHEEL AS THE DRIVER SHIFTED TO THE FORWARD GEAR. MRS. MCDONALD IN HER TESTIMONY SAID SHE STRUCK THE CHILD WHILE GOING FORWARD. WILLIAM PORTER TESTIFIED THAT HE WAS FIRST TO REACH THE CHILD, FOLLOWED CLOSELY BY MR. ALLSTRAND. MR. PORTER PICKED UP THE LITTLE ONE, HE SAID, AND PLACED HER IN THE LEWIS AUTOMOBILE WHICH CONVEYED HER TO THE HOSPITAL. THE CORONER'S JURY WAS COMPOSED OF T.D. METCALF, PAINTER KNOX AND C.L. KENDRICK. THE FAMILY OF THE LIDGETT CHILD WAS REPRESENTED BY ATTORNEY HARRY ROBERTSEN AND MRS. MCDONALD BY W.E. MITCHELL OF TINLEY, MITCHELL & PRYER. NONPAREIL NEWSPAPER MAY 1914 LARGE CROWD AT LIDGETT FUNERAL THE FUNERAL OF LITTLE ELIZABETH LIDGETT, WHO WAS KILLED BY AN AUTOMOBILE IN FAIRMOUNT PARK LAST SATURDAY, WAS HELD AT THE FAMILY HOME 117 GLEN STREET, ON MONDAY AFTERNOON AT 2:30 O'CLOCK. THE HOUSE WAS FILLED TO OVERFLOWING WITH FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY AND THE FLORAL OFFERINGS WERE ESPECIALLY NUMEROUS AND BEAUTIFUL. FOUR YOUNG FRIENDS OF THE DECEASED SERVED AS PALLBEARERS. THEY WERE: BESSIE WESLYAN, BLANCHE WALTIN, WINIFRED MORAINE AND KATHRYNE CHEYNE. BURIAL WAS AT WALNUT HILL CEMETERY.
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