Hide Article Text (OCR)
Carl Berry deathPatrol inspector discounts■Vjtheory of gas-funte explosionBy ELLIOTT CHAZE Highway patrol inspector J.B. Dickerson said today he could not agree with the theory that explosive gasoline fumes were responsible for the death by fire of Hattiesburg attorney Carl E. Berry, Jr.Berry burned to death last Wednesday night on Interstate 59, about a mile north of ElJis-ville. ■A Hattiesburg parking lot operator told The American Tuesday that prior to the incident he and his attendants bad noticed that the carburetor o f Berry’s £adillac leaked gaso -line; that frequently this iilled the interior of the car with volatile fumes —to such a degree “we were afraid to crank it.” He expressed the opinion these fumes finally cost Berry his life as he drove south on the four - lane highway, heading home after a business' trip to Laurel. Witnesses said t he Cadillac suddenly was filledwith fire after an audible ex -plosion; that the car ran off the road, still burning.Dickerson told The American this morning:“Witnesses said that when they first saw Berry on the side of the road he was outside theVCadillac and a door of the car was open; then he finally got irt and drove off, the witnesses following southward,“My feeling is that even if gas fumes bad been pulled off the motor into the car between Laurel and the peint where Ber-(Continued on Page 12)Blankenship to Irnew executive t1 . * ‘f TFarrell Blankenship, who served as campaign chairman for the 1970 - 71 United;; GiversRind Drive; was named UGFpresident at the annual -ajeet -ing in the Community ^Center Tuesday nieht
Newspaper Details
Hattiesburg American
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US
Wed, Jan 27, 1971
Page 18
Full Page
Clipped by
Alan O.
USA 15 Jan 2020
Other Publications Near Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Hattiesburg Daily Progress
Hattiesburg Daily News
Hattiesburg News
Hattiesburg American
