Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Stephens, Henry F. November 11, 1924
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Anniston Star
One dead and two injured was the toll of an automobile accident on Noble Street, 
near the Ninth street intersection, late yesterday afternoon. H. F. Stephens, 
blacksmith, of Delta. Clay county received injuries that resulted in his death 
at 7:10 o'clock at local hospital and J. U. Bogg and J. T. Sasnett, were 
painfully injured. 
McBride King, alleged driver of the death car, was arrested last night by Chief 
of Police O. P. White and Detectives Smith and Deason and lodged in the city 
Jail on a charge of driving an automobile while intoxicated, violating a traffic 
ordinance, and being drunk in a public place. 
It is understood that a warrant charged manslaughter will be served on King by 
county officials when he is released from the city Jail. 
King was arrested at the residence on Wilmer Avenue where he was boarding, 
following a city, wide search staged by officers and sivllian. 
Witnesses state that King was driving his car northward on Noble Street and 
struck the three men in front of the Noble, street Motor company building. No 
eyewitnesses to the accident could be found this morning, although several told 
of seeing the men lying in the street after having been struck by the car. 
Stephen's skull was crushed when he was thrown to the pavement, and he died 
without regaining consciousness. His body was sent to Delta this morning and 
funeral and interment will take place there Thursday afternoon. He was fifty 
years of age. 
Boggs, who was a companion of Stephens and said to be a resident of Delta, also 
was severely bruised and lacerated about the face. His condition was reported as 
satisfactory by hospital attaches this morning. Sasnett. who is a resident of 
Anniston. was discharged from the hospital after having his injuries examined 
and treated by physicians. It is stated that King has been residing to Anniston 
for only a short period of time and is employed part time at the Southern 
Manganese plant. His home is in Montgomery, it is said. 
It was rumored that he was connected with the King-Wheeler Motor company, but 
this was unfounded as it was learned that McBride King is not related to either 
J. F. King and E. D. King, who operates the motor company. 
Merrill and Allen have been engaged as counsel for the accused man and announced 
this morning that, they were undertaking to make bond of $600 for the charge 
against him in the city court. These cases are set to tried tomorrow morning.

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