1925-04-16-sc-p8-dr-greens-car-was-going-slow
April 16, 1925 Spokane Daily Chronicle Page 8:
DR GREEN'S CAR WAS GOING SLOW
Less Than 20 Miles at Time of Collision With Pavelich.
Dr. George Green, for whose death John Pavelich, is being tried for manslaughter in Superior Judge Webster’s court today, was traveling less than 20 miles an hour at the time of the collision with Pavelich’s car, according to the testimony of Mrs. L. D. Taylor driver of a school bus from Edgecliff, who claims to have been an eyewitness to the tragedy.
“Dr. Green's car was across the second car track on Fourth avenue, when I saw Pavelich’s car approach from the west,” Mrs. Taylor said. Because she saw Pavelich’s big Lincoln car for such a short time before the tragedy, she said that it would be impossible for her to estimate the speed at which he was traveling, although he was going very fast.
Turned to See Crash.
Mrs. Eunice Wildermuth, E3137 Eighteenth avenue, who was a passenger on a Lincoln Park street car, that was half a block from the scene of the accident at the time of the tragedy, testified that she saw Pavelich’s car pass and turned to see the crash.
She estimated that Pavelich was driving 50 miles an hour when he passed the street car.
Mrs. E. J. Morin, landlady of the Morin apartments, half a block from Fourth avenue and Division, where the accident occurred, said she was telephoning in her apartment when her attention was attracted by the roar of Pavelich’s motor. She left the phone and ran to the window and saw Dr. Green's car overturned, she testified.
“The Lincoln car was traveling at a high speed—I should judge in excess of 50 miles an hour, when it passed my apartment,” she said.
Mrs. Mildred Walker, who saw the car pass the Del Rey apartment, also estimated it’s speed as 59 miles an hour. R. Weston, who saw the car from a greater distance, made a similar estimate of its speed.
Plowed Through Lawn.
Police Officer L. E. Markwood described the position of the two cars when he arrived at the scene of the accident. The Pavelich car had jumped a curb and plowed through a lawn before it stopped, he said.
Court in Judge Webster's department convened at 9 o’clock, half an hour early, this morning and will adjourn at 3 o’clock, so that court officials and physicians attending the trial may attend the funeral of Dr. S. B. Hopkins.
