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mg 121© return 01 jvirs. jviurnx v.i±ivz.Miss Ratliff's body was held -unclaimed at Castle Rocx following her death while an effort was made through friends at Spokane, where she formerly lived, to locate her mother. She was 21 years old and since October had been employed at the Quill cafe at Chehalis. Monday local union friends had the body brought to the Fissel Funeral Home.Report hers is that Saturday evening about 7 o'clock Grant, accompanied by Mrs. Morris and Miss Ratliff, left Chehalis, presumably for the celebration at Mary's Corner. Toward midnight the news of their deaths came. An auto camp owner north of where the wreck occurred, estimated that as Grant whizzed past his place his speed must have been around 90 miles an hour and that he was on the wrong side of the road. The car is reported to have been specially geared for speed. It is stated also, that the women were screaming when the auto camp was passed and it was but a few moments later that the fatal crash occurred with the carin which were the Hansous.Grant had the reputation locally of | being a wild driver, police officers stating that he had been picked up here and elsewhere for traffic violations. Whether or not he had been drinking is not certain, but Sunday a state patrolman stated here that behad. ' . ..Lloyd Hanson, the fourth victim ofthe wreck, was 20 years old and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Han-, son, prominent Castle Rock residents. He was a grandson of ex-Mayor John Becker of Vader, the families being widely known in southern. Lewis ananorthern Cowlitz counties.
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Chehalis Bee Nugget
Chehalis, Washington, US
Fri, Jul 10, 1931
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