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Marin Journal
Thursday, October 17, 1918
Page 1
1 Dead, 3 Hurt In Auto Wreck
An automobile accident fatal to one person and resulting in the serious injury of three others, occurred Saturday afternoon when a machine owned and driven by Mrs. Sarah Bard Field went over the bank at the foot of White’s Hall.
Albert Ehrgott, 17 year old son of Mrs. Field, was instantly killed; her 12 year old daughter, Katherine, sustained a slight cut across the forehead; Mrs. Field suffered a painful fracture of her leg, and Charles Scott Wood, aged and well known literary man of San Francisco, was bruised and cut about the head and shoulders.
Mrs. Field is widely known as a writer and lecturer and gained prominence as the organizer of the National Woman’s Party some time ago.
She is the divorced wife of Albert Ehrgott of 1553 LeRoy avenue, Berkeley, with whom the children resided. Ehrgott formerly was a missionary, and at the time of the boy’s birth the family lived in Rangoon, Burma, India.
Particulars as to the cause of the accident are lacking, but it is believed by those who examined the scene later that when the brakes of the machine refused to work, the car backed down the hill and crashed over the bank, where it was found. The body of the boy was found crushed beneath the overturned car.
Mrs. Field and the old gentleman, Mr. Wood, are still confined to the Cottage Hospital, where they are under treatment by Dr. C. B. Marston. The little girl has been taken to her home in Berkeley.
Funeral services were held yesterday over the remains of the boy at First Baptist church in Berkeley. They were attended by a large crowd of the boy’s friends, among them being two hundred High School Cadets of the Preparatory School attended by young Ehrgott.
The funeral was under the direction of Dr. F. E. Sawyer.
Mrs. Field was injured so badly that it was impossible for her to visit the undertaking parlors at Sawyer’s where the body of her son was kept until yesterday morning.
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