Randolph County AlArchives News.....Airplane "Hit & Run"  July 8, 1949
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Roanoke Leader July 8, 1949
July 5. An Air Force corporal was bound over to a Chambers County grand jury 
today after a preliminary hearing on a charge he piloted a hit and run aircraft. 
He is Cpl. Robert S. Penick, 22, stationed at Shaw Field, Columbia, S. C. Bond 
was set at $1,000. Sheriff Jim Abney said Penick and three other soldiers were 
in a plane that killed a Negro wagon driver near Wadley, Ala., July 2. Abney 
described the case as an air hit and run. The four soldiers were arrested when 
they landed their chartered private plane at Alexander City, about 30 miles from 
the scene of the accident. An aged Negro man, John H. Hall, died two hours after 
being struck by a wing of the plane, Abney said. Hall had stood up to quiet the 
mules when the plane approached at low altitude. Four other persons in the wagon 
were unhurt. Penicks three companions were held as material witnesses but were 
released last night, Abney said, to prevent their being listed as AWOL. The 
plane, a Piper Cruiser rented from a flying service firm in Columbia, landed on 
Highway 63 after striking Hall, then took off and proceeded to Alexander City 
for repairs to the wing, which had two holes torn in it from the impact. The 
fliers stated that they thought they were running low on gasoline and were 
seeking a place to land when the Negro was hit.

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