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Charles Edwin Kirkpatrick

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Charles Edwin Kirkpatrick

Birth
Iowa, USA
Death
25 Nov 1925 (aged 42)
Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Burial
Tryon, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
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Charles' Arizona Death Certificate is at genealogy.az.gov

Arizona State Miner (Wickenburg, Arizona)
Saturday, November 28, 1925, p. 1:3
Chas. Kirkpatrick, Five Points baker for the Log Cabin Baking Company on Grand Avenue near 10th Avenue, met with injuries yesterday that may prove fatal. Kirkpatrick was taken to St. Joseph's hospital, where he has had to be strapped down because of the peculiar nature of injuries to his brain. Kirkpatrick was proceeding to his work on a bicycle along Seventh Avenue at Adams when hit by a black and white taxi. The impact was so forceable as to throw Kirkpatrick to the pavement, resulting in injuries that are expected to prove fatal. Attempts to x-ray the patient to learn extent of his injuries have been fruitless, and Mrs. Kirkpatrick phoned today that her husband was in a continuous raving condition night and day since the accident. Kirkpatrick is a middle-aged man and father of five boys.
The Log Cabin Bakery is a Five Points institution with seven or more employes. This bakery's bread is widely popular and bread is bought at 3 loaves for 25c, its pastries and pies having a large demand.
There is a growing apprehension at so many recurrences of auto accidents near Five Points that ought to be investigated. Taxicab drivers are altogether too careless and arrogant in their manner of driving in and around Five Points. In this case it is told the taxi driver has a permit to exceed the speed limit of other taxis. If so, it should be abrogated at once and he be barred from future driving of an auto for any purpose.
Near the point where the accident occurred, on school days a schoolboy monitor is stationed, that taxis and other vehicles may not kill or maim school children. It is told in cases like these that when ordered to slow down by the school monitor, drivers tell the boy to "go to hell." If this is true, and we feel it is, the time has come to tighten up the restrictions. No taxi driver should be specially privileged to exceed the limit of other taxis. It makes the traffic laws discriminative and any law that discriminates is unfair and unconstitutional.
Charles' Arizona Death Certificate is at genealogy.az.gov

Arizona State Miner (Wickenburg, Arizona)
Saturday, November 28, 1925, p. 1:3
Chas. Kirkpatrick, Five Points baker for the Log Cabin Baking Company on Grand Avenue near 10th Avenue, met with injuries yesterday that may prove fatal. Kirkpatrick was taken to St. Joseph's hospital, where he has had to be strapped down because of the peculiar nature of injuries to his brain. Kirkpatrick was proceeding to his work on a bicycle along Seventh Avenue at Adams when hit by a black and white taxi. The impact was so forceable as to throw Kirkpatrick to the pavement, resulting in injuries that are expected to prove fatal. Attempts to x-ray the patient to learn extent of his injuries have been fruitless, and Mrs. Kirkpatrick phoned today that her husband was in a continuous raving condition night and day since the accident. Kirkpatrick is a middle-aged man and father of five boys.
The Log Cabin Bakery is a Five Points institution with seven or more employes. This bakery's bread is widely popular and bread is bought at 3 loaves for 25c, its pastries and pies having a large demand.
There is a growing apprehension at so many recurrences of auto accidents near Five Points that ought to be investigated. Taxicab drivers are altogether too careless and arrogant in their manner of driving in and around Five Points. In this case it is told the taxi driver has a permit to exceed the speed limit of other taxis. If so, it should be abrogated at once and he be barred from future driving of an auto for any purpose.
Near the point where the accident occurred, on school days a schoolboy monitor is stationed, that taxis and other vehicles may not kill or maim school children. It is told in cases like these that when ordered to slow down by the school monitor, drivers tell the boy to "go to hell." If this is true, and we feel it is, the time has come to tighten up the restrictions. No taxi driver should be specially privileged to exceed the limit of other taxis. It makes the traffic laws discriminative and any law that discriminates is unfair and unconstitutional.


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