Description
“Didn’t Quite Know How to Drive – So Leon Didell Stepped on the Gas When He Wanted the Brake – Overturned” Leon Didell, an 18-year-old colored boy, employed by George Hull, was overturned in the latter’s Ford car Sunday. He had been washing the car in the rear of the Harpst garage, at Mr. Hull's direction, and thought he would run it a bit to dry it off, as he had seen others do. The only trouble with that plan was that he had never driven a car, and with the pedals and things that make it go and make it stop he had no intimate acquaintance. All went well until he came to the hill near Happy Schmid’s home when his foot reached for the brake, but hit the gas, and then things happened. About the next the boy knew the car was on its side and he had a badly cut hand. As the machine jumped it struck J. C. Hardesty’s car and pushed it off the street. The Hull car was badly wrecked, but the Hardesty machine escaped with little harm.Date(s) of Creation
4/21/1927
