Amanda May Stephenson, of Ebenezer, who resided in a small home on a farm just off the road at the suburban village was instantly killed at 1:35 o'clock Sunday morning as she was nearing the lane leading to her humble residence. The motorist who struck her sped away from the scene in a hurry but State Motor Police expressed high hope of apprehending him, as the car license number was partly remembered by witnesses, and the car was damaged in a way that can be recognized if seen. Officers are checking on both details with confidence in their ability to catch up with the runaway. Miss Stephenson, aged 38, had visited friends a few miles northwest of her home on Saturday evening, and was homeward bound on foot when she was struck by the hit and run driver at almost the same spot at Ebenezer where John Strickler was killed by an automobile on June 16th, last year. Sergeant C. A. Lipp, in command of the Lebanon sub-station of Motor Police, is in personal charge of the investigation. Frank Remington, of the 109th Field Artillery, told Motor Policeman George C. Doll, first dispatched in the scene, that he was northward bound to the Indiantown Gup military reservation when he saw the woman on the opposite side of the highway waving her arms in the path of the southbound car. The soldier said that a few seconds later the other machine struck her and she was thrown to the side of the road. Harold Bricker, of 220 South Sixth Street, also traveling northward some distance in the wake of the soldier’s car, stated to the investigating officer that just before he reached the stricken woman on the highway he passed a car with one headlight ripped off, and the other went out as the electric circuit was broken. Bricker summoned the motor police, thus permitting the soldiers in the other car to get back to camp without further delay. The Good Samaritan ambulance which responded quickly with an interne was of no use as the woman was dead when, the car arrived on the scene. Dr. W. H. Brubaker, the county coroner, after examining the body stated that death was likely instantaneous as the skull was badly fractured, that both legs suffered compound fractures and the right arm was also fractured. He stated that no autopsy is required and that an inquest will be determined upon in accord with progress made by the police in following clues now in their hands. The decedent was a native of Dauphin County. Her father, Samuel A. Stephenson, resides at Oberlin, Pa. Florence, wife of Dr. Thomas Doyle, of Colonial Park, Harrisburg, and Glenda, wife of Ralph Heffner, of York County, are sisters, and Lester Stephenson, of Oberlin, and Clair Stephenson, of Harrisburg, are brothers. [Lebanon Daily News, September 22, 1941, Page 1 & 2]