Simcoe Girl
Seriously Hurt
Toronto, 20 Oct 1921
-- Run over by a large touring car on Front Street near the Queen's
Hotel at 8.30 o'clock last night, Miss Barbara Boultbee, 19, of
Simcoe, was so badly injured that little hope is held out at St.
Michael's Hospital for her recovery.
The front wheels of the
automobile passed over the young lady's body, fracturing five ribs,
several of which pierced the lungs. She is also suffering from other
internal injuries.
Steven Jeans of 119
Brunswick Avenue, a taxi driver, who was in charge of the
automobile, gave himself up at Court Street Police Station, and
after witnesses of the accident had been interviewed by Detectives
Sullivan and Waterhouse, he was allowed to go.
Miss Boultbee, with her
mother Mrs. R. Boultbee, her twin sister Margaret, and Miss Vera
Curtiss, was staying at the Queen's Hotel. They had just come out of
the hotel and were about to cross to the south side of Front Street.
Barbara Boultbee is said by witnesses to have been walking in front
of the other two girls, and she stepped out from in front of a
stationary automobile, and was struck by Jeans' car, which was
westbound on Front Street.
Jeans told the police he did
not see the young girl until his car was within six feet of her. At
the time, he said, he was turning his car to the centre of the road
to pass a standing motor. He at once applied the brakes, but the car
struck her and the front wheels passed over her body. Miss Boultbee
was picked up and rushed in an automobile to the hospital.
Jeans was driving the Misses
Welch and Bergy of Oshawa to Union Station. Both women told
detectives that in their opinion Jeans could not possibly avoid the
accident. The police further stated that Miss Margaret Boultbee had
also said that the drive was not to blame.
Miss Barbara Boultbee is one
of two sisters who are very well known and popular throughout
Norfolk County. Both are capital horsewomen and expert auto drivers,
and were prominent in sports and in social life. They made their
home with their mother , Mrs. Robert Boultbee in Simcoe, although a
great part of their summer was spent each year at the country home
of their uncle, D. Robb Tisdale, at Charlotteville.
Miss Barbara, with her
sister, attended school at Barrie for over two years, completing her
course there only last spring. Mrs. Boultbee and her daughters were
in Toronto on a shopping trip and according to their usual custom,
were staying at the Queen's Hotel.
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Simcoe, 22 Oct 1921 --
Advice received here on Wednesday night of the fatal injuries
received by Miss Barbara Boultbee in Toronto was followed Thursday
morning by reassuring news that the young lady has very fair chances
of recovery, and on Friday she was reported as still continuing to
improve. The young lady had one shoulder girdle broken, besides
other injuries previously reported.
