SHAW, Sandra Sue

The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ March 1, 1957, p. 1 Texas Rites For Sandra Sue Shaw, Accident Victim Funeral services and burial of Sandra Sue Shaw, 14-year-old Wickenburg High School freshman victim of an automobile accident, were to be held in Jefferson, Texas. The body was shipped there Sunday. Before its departure, nearly all students in the High School, along with many of their teachers and parents, visited the Wickenburg Chapel to pay their respects to the popular student as the body lay in state. Injuries which caused her death resulted from an automobile accident one and a half miles out on the Constellation road at approximately 11:20 p.m. last Friday, March 22. According to testimony at the coroner’s inquest, Miss Shaw and Donald Davenport, 17-year-old Wickenburg boy, had been to a movie. With Davenport driving they went out Constellation Road as far as Calamity Wash, and were returning to town when the car, owned by Davenport’s parents, Mr. & Mrs Bert Davenport, hit a soft shoulder on the north side of the road skidded across the road for 85 feet, hit a dirt embankment and turned over 25 feet further on. The car came to a stop with its four wheels in the air. Miss Shaw had been thrown out. Young Davenport, who graduated from High School here last May and was at home on leave from the Merchant Marines, went immediately to the home of Mr. & Mrs. Bob Poling, who resided just at the edge of the town limits and reported the accident. Immediately Town Policemen Louis Johnson and W. P. Clawson proceeded to the scene of the accident after first notifying Deputy Sheriff Clyde Hall and ordering an ambulance. They requested Mr Poling to take Davenport to Community Hospital. Dr. Fred Shannon later reported that Davenport’s injuries consisted of a severe laceration of the right arm with a severed tendon. Miss Shaw was taken by ambulance to the hospital where Dr. Shannon diagnosed her condition as brain concussion. She died at 5:30 o’clock the following morning. Miss Shaw came to Wickenburg last October with her mother, Mrs Fred Shaw, and her 13-year-old brother, Jake, from Tyler, Texas. Their move here was for the health of young Jake. They lived for two months at Rafter Ram Ranch and then moved into the house at 188 Jackson Street. Mr. Shaw, who is in business in Tyler, did not come here. Sue enrolled in the High School here last November 1 as a transfer from the Hogg Junior High School in Tyler. She was born in Shreveport, La., August 29, 1942. Corner R. L. Westall called a jury composed of Alex Lawson, William Reedy, Russell Stone, William H. Henry, E. P. Moore and Ben Lukl to hear the case. After viewing the scene of the accident, the car and the body last Saturday, they recessed until Tuesday afternoon of this week when they heard testimony and brought in the following verdict: “Death caused by excessive speed.”