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- "Elizabethton Star," Monday, April 11, 1938
TEACHER HELD IN HIGHWAY DEATH
D. O. JOHNSON STRUCK WHILE WALKING ROAD
Miss Louise Hazelwood Held On Manslaughter Charge
Miss Louise Hazelwood, county school teacher of Fish Springs, will be arraigned before Magistrate Frank Edens next Monday, 10 a.m. on a technical charge of manslaughter in connection with the death yesterday afternoon of Daniel O. Johnson, 72, struck and killed by Miss Hazelwood's car near his home on the Mountain City-Elizabethton highway a few miles above Hampton.
Miss Hazelwood was freed on $1.500 bond yesterday p. m. following, an investigation of Johnson's death by Deputy Sheriff Harlan Oakes.
Funeral services for Johnson, a Spanish-American War veteran, will be held Tuesday afternoon at the home. He will be given military burial.
Johnson was walking along the road on his way to visit a neighbor, it was reported, when the car driven by Miss Hazelwood struck him. His crushed and broken body was thrown against the windshield and the automobile ran off the road into the ditch. Miss Hazelwood escaped injury. It was reported Johnson was taken to the St. Elizabeth hospital, where he died a few minutes after admission.
Johnson is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell Johnson, eight sons and daughters, 37 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Children surviving him are A. B., W. M., Daniel O. Jr., and George W. Johnson, Mrs. Julie Glover, Mrs. Cindy Peters, Mrs. Vernie Potter and Mrs. Zudie Long.
Services Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock will be conducted by Rev. Houston Bowers, Rev. Phil Shepherd and Rev. J. V. Bunting. Interment will follow in the family cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be George Hazelwood, Mike Hazelwood, Ed Hazelwood, Howard Hicks, Lewis Hicks, Bob Peters, W. O. Johnson, Mike Peters.
Granddaughters and nieces will be in charge of the flowers. The body will be taken to the home near Hampton from the Roy Hathaway Funeral Home late this afternoon.
"Elizabethton Star," Monday, April 25, 1938
FREE LOCAL WOMAN ON INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER CHARE IN ACCIDENT
Magistrate Dismisses Case; Four State Witnesses Called
Miss Louise Hazelwood, Fish Springs, school teacher was freed of charges of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the highway death two weeks ago of D. O. Johnson, 72, on the Hampton-Mountain City highway near Hampton.
Magistrate Frank Edens dismissed the case this morning after four witnesses had testified for the state. The defense placed no witnesses on the stand.
Miss Hazelwood was arrested and placed under $1,500 bond Sunday, April 11, after striking Johnson with her car while he was waling along the road near his home about five o'clock in the evening. Johnson was tossed up on the hood of the car, which ran into the ditch. He died on the way to the hospital.
Johnson's crushed body rolled into the road as the car hit the ditch.
Deputy Sheriff Harlan Oaks, Cart Oliver, Philip Shepard, George Johnson, the latter three eyewitnesses to the tragedy, testified for the state. Johnson is a son of the deceased man.
Vine and Pearson acted as counsel for the Johnson brothers who prosecuted the case and Sherman Grindstaff was counsel for Miss Hazelwood, daughter of R. A. Hazlewood.
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Abt 1861 - 1938 (~ 77 years)
