Woodstock
Man Killed by Automobile
Was Well-Known in Simcoe,
Where his mother resides
Mr. James F. Moore, a
prominent and popular merchant of Woodstock, was struck by an
automobile on Saturday afternoon at three o'clock and so seriously
injured that he was rendered unconscious. In this state he remained
until Monday morning, when he succumbed.
Mr. Moore was in the act of
getting into a friend's car to go to his store, when another car,
driven by a Mr. Rutter, ran into him with such lamentable results.
Rutter was arrested and is out on $[....] bail, supplied by the
Royal Bank.
Mr. Moore was born in
Walpole, in 1867, but spent his early years in Port Dover. Mrs. John
Moore of Victoria Street in Simcoe is his mother, and he has four
sisters, Mrs. Charles Niblett of Owen Sound, Mrs. Harry L. Pratt of
Windsor, and Misses Fanny and Ann Moore of Simcoe.
He also leaves a widow, who
was a Miss Varey of Port Dover.
