Fulton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Knight, David T. August 18, 1899
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Meredith Clapper http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002801 February 2, 2019, 5:38 pm

The Atlanta Constitution   19 Aug 1899 p 10 & 20 Aug 1899 p 19
The Atlanta Constitution   19 Aug 1899 p 10
Trolley Car Kills David T. Knight
He Was Run Over While Riding a
Bicycle on Luckie Street
Motorman Not To Blame
Mrs. Knight Says She Warned Her
Husband of Trouble
Seems He Lost Control Of His Wheel
Was Taken to the Grady Hospital,
Where He Died Shortly After
The Accident

Yesterday morning David T. Knight, a grocery merchant at No. 748 Marietta 
street, was run over by a trolley car while he was riding a bicycle and 
received injuries from which he died at the Grady hospital a short while 
after the accident. 

Knight left his store on his wheel to come into the city and rode down 
Marietta street as far as Cone.  He rode along Cone street to Luckie.  When 
he reached Luckie street he turned the corner.  Trolley car No. 115 of the 
West Peachtree line was on Luckie street going westward and approaching 
Knight.  The car struck the bicycle, throwing the rider under the fender, 
where he was held and dragged several feet.

The injured man was taken to the Grady hospital, where he died shortly 
afterwards.

Motorman Fincher, on car No. 115, says he did his best to prevent the 
accident.  He put on brakes and reversed his current when he saw that a 
collision was about to take place.  The motorman stated after the accident 
that he saw the bicycle approaching and rang to warn him to get further from 
the tracks.

"The rider seemed to lose control of his wheel," said the motorman, "and 
just as I approached him he let his wheel run right into the car.  I regret 
the accident, but do not feel that I was in any way to blame." 

Mrs. Knight was notified of the accident and reached the hospital before her 
husband expired.  She says she had a premonition that something was going to 
happen to her husband and she begged him not to leave the store on his 
wheel.  When some one went to the store to inform her of what had occurred 
she said at once that she knew her presentiments had been realized.

H. W. Ford, a friend of Knight, was near the scene of the accident and he 
remained with the injured man until the ambulance arrived.  He said two or 
three physicians came up and looked at Knight, but, like the first two men 
who was the man that was robbed and beaten on the highway, they "passed by 
on the other side," saying it was no business of theirs to minister unto 
him.

Knight was about twenty-five years of age.  He recently married.  He had 
been in the grocery business on Marietta street for several years and was 
regarded as a good citizen and a successful merchant. 

The Atlanta Constitution 20 Aug 1899 p 19
Motorman Not To Blame
Case Dismissed Against Motorman 
on Trolley Car Which Killed
David T. Knight Friday

A case was made against R. K. Fincher yesterday morning, the motorman who 
was in charge of the trolley car which killed David T. Knight Friday 
morning.  The charge was reckless running of a street car in the city.

The case was tried in the police court yesterday afternoon.  The 
preponderance of the testimony showed that the car was not running over four 
miles an hour, when the law permits a speed of six miles an hour.

The acting recorder, Alderman Day, dismissed the case. 

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/fulton/obits/k/knight15333ob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/

File size: 3.8 Kb