Source, Burlington (Vt) Weekly Free Press --Sept. 27, 1917. Page 7. WOMAN RUN OVER AND KILLED BY AUTO. Mrs. John W. Rhodes of Brattleboro Is the Victim. Brattleboro,Vt., Sept. 26--An automobile fatality occurred on Main street this afternoon, Mrs. John W. Rhodes of Morningside cemetery road being run over by a car owned and driven by Anseli Pierce, a public chauffeur. Persons who saw the accident say that Mrs. Rhodes started to cross the road and at first did not see Pierce approaching. The latter planned to go behind the woman and when she did finally see the car she stepped back and was knocked down. F. W. Fitzgerald of Norwich, who reached the car first, said the front wheel was on Mrs. Rhodes head and that he pulled it off. The victim was placed in the car and taken to the Memorial hospital. She was unconscious upon her arrival and died in about 20 minutes. Mrs. Rhodes was 53 years old. Besides her husband, she leaves a daughter, Mrs. Roy Simonds, of this place, and a son, Albert S. Rhodes, a member of Company I of the Vermont regiment at Westfield, Mass. Transcribed by, Joan H. Bixby