My name is Mrs. B. H. Chapman. . . . On the night of Feb. 13, between 8:30 and 9:00 P.M. I was returning from the home of Mrs. A. P. Britt. . . I saw a man on the right side of the road. As my car came near him, he staggered out into the middle of the highway as if to stop me. I immediately sounded the horn and tuned my car to the left, and at the same time he staggered back to the right side of the road, and I passed on. I do no known who the man was, other than that he was a colored man, and seemed to be under the influence of some intoxicant. There was no other person near, that I saw.
He was brought to the Anson Sanatorium on the night of Feb. 13-37, about 9:30 P.M. He has a crushed injury of chest with several broken ribs, high right leg was broken in two places. There were many bruises on body and large lacerated wound of buttock extending into rectum . . . He was in an unconscious condition . . . Carl. I Allen, M.D.