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hosa-id*Pieton*heto■'3lea,y.ya-e.iCnftflhd;ttWitnesses TestifyPrank McLaughlin, who was riding in the Raake car when .it collided with LaVoy's motorcycle on Eagle street, was the first Witness, to testify, telling of events leading, up to the crash. Iyer Johnson,; whd witnessed the wreck at a distance o£i a half block, was 'the next'l Witness. rc Joe LeVoy was called,i but./after a w conference, was not awftw^ Jii , or '?*questioned. t .Dr. H. J, Westgate,- Wn r was called to the accident Scene . and later treated LaVoy in St. Mary’siC£ hospital, testified that the injured! youth had no injuries abou^, the IV body but had his upper jawffrac-»e turOd in several places, his lower ( n* jaw broken, hia skull fractured and a piece of the bone broken lodse andcltl\\th8'latshoved into the brain.Agnes Lindner testified that .her husband owned the motorcycle and I* that her brother, Harry LaVoy, was I “not a good rider but he had ridden1 Sj; a motorcycle last summer. I didn'ti have to show him how, as it said in «ji e. the paper.” To which Dist. Atty. w| Kennedy interposed: “Do you believe ^ all you see in ihe papers?” ‘ pa. Joe LaVoy then stated he had £,c never known that his,brother had been on a motorcycle before, until -r his sister told him since the aecl-h* dent.i Plan Civil Suit?d . The argument over, whether b* LtiVqy was an experienced or 1 periehced motorcycle rider is tak to presage possible civil action ov the accident. After the crash, it lt | was safd. the inexperience of the ff| young, motorcycle rider might have r| caused the accident, whereas the f?(sister, who had taken the motor-cycle to the home oi* Monday, eon-b tends he “was not a 'good rider, he got along all right.”* 'e Chief of Police Maurice Straub,1the next Avitness called, described the condition of the car and the motors* cycle after the wreck, declaring tho ! injured youth was to the right of. 3 the road near the side when he ar-'.1 rived. Asked about the eonditio\i o£; £ the driver of the car, the officer de-f- dared Itaske “was in fine shape.” i*i As to the wreck, “it looked liked the. I-1 motorcycle had hit loose dirt and e shot across the road into the car.” | j Leonard Sehalloek, Crandon, an-( f I other passenger in the Raske car,1* ° said he glanced down the road whep’ '•! the motorcycle was only 10 feet away. The cycle was coming direct
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Rhinelander Daily News
Rhinelander, Wisconsin, US
Thu, May 08, 1930
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