Obit of Fowler, A.W. - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 14 Dec 2008 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::NOT LISTED Surnames: Fowler, Allen Originally posted at: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oklahoma.counties.rogermills/7976/mb.ashx A.W. FOWLER KILLED BY AUTO Run Down By Car Driven Without Lights Near His Store At Sweetwater, On April 4, 1926 BACK BROKEN BY AUTOMOBILE Daniel Allen, 13 Years of Age, the Driver of the Car, Given suspended Sentence. A.W. Fowler, merchant of Sweetwater, was run down by an automobile driven without lights, by a 13 year old boy, Sunday, April 4, 1926 near his store. He died at the Tisdall Hospital at Elk City, Monday night about eleven o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Fowler and children had attended church at Sweetwater Sunday night, April 4, 1926 and were walking down the road toward the store. Mr. Fowler was carrying the baby and Mrs. Fowler was leading the two larger children when suddenly there came up behind them a car which was being driven without lights by Daniel Allen, 13 year old son of W.H. Allen. The wind was blowing and they did not hear the car until it was almost upon them. Mr. Fowler thinking of Mrs. Fowler and the children pushed them out of the road, but before he could jump out of the road the car struck him knocking the baby out of his arms and several feet down the road. Mr. Fowler was dragged by the car about fifteen feet before he was free. The car then plunged off a culvert into the ditch. The occupants of the car were uninjured. The baby which Mr. Fowler was carrying, received a large cut over the eye and was badly shaken up. Mr. Fowlewr was taken to he Tisdall hospital, Monday afternoon where an X-ray picture showed that three vertbraes were broken and torn to pieces. He was paralized from his neck down. He died about 11 o'clock, Monday night. Mr. Fowler requested that young Allen be not prosecuted for the crime, but some one else swore out a complaint and he was brought to Cheyenne where he entered a plea of guilty and given a sentence in the reformatory, but on account of, his age could not be sent. Therefore the sentence was suspended on probation and he was placed in the hands of his father W.H. Allen and Deputy O.K. Henson. This should prove a lesson to automobile drivers and especially to those who some times drive without lights. It is wrong for anyone to endanger the life of others, and parents should not allow children to drive a car because they are not conscious of the danger they subject themselves and others to. The only thing that keeps Daniel Allen from serving a term in the Reformatory, which is nothing more or less than a penitentiary, is that he is too young to be sent to that institution. By his carelessness one of Roger Mills county's good citizens was killed. No doubt the boy would not have intentionally harmed Mr. Fowler or his family, but because of the fact that he was not conciencse of the danger of driving wihout lights he caused Mr. Fowler's death, a woman to become a widow and three children to become fatherless. Roger Mills Sentinel, Cheyenne, OK 15-Apr-1926 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html