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Oil City ManHoiJarrFaces ChargePoliButInjured in Crash ByTha* Killed Butler ,AVBThis bi;Cabbie, O. C. Native campsit)a suburEverett C. Whitcomb lt;»f 108 The stPlummer Street, injured shortly boys lo\ after midnight yesterday in Butler Jerry C in an auto-taxi accident in which show ye a 51-year-old Oil City native was fire are, killed, has been charged with reck- acre rai less driving by Butler police The cWhitcomb, driver of the car main o which struck a taxicab broadside eludes at the intersection of Main and Danny I Penn Streets in Butler, is in Butler Reynold County Memorial Hospital in “fair” Calhoun condition. He is suffering from For « chest injuries and lacerations of schedulethe leg. *iam HoJoseph L Mays, driver of the Stewart taxi and a former resident of Oil MissCity, was killed instantly. The mis- with a h hap occurred at 1:45 a. m. the shovWhitcomb has been ordered to her. tryappear for a coroner's inquest. At omButler county coroner, J. Clin- ress ci ton Atwell indicated he would is Scouts! sue a certificate of accidental Dodeath AfterWhitcomb and three passengers from the in his car were injured in the presentecrash. appreciaEdgar Cramer, 39, of Franklin, Tex Tsuffered a laceration of the fore- names rhead; Hubert Harry Shorts, 26, of presenta Lima, O , and Jesse W. Seefricd, liam Ar28. of Franklin, received minor in- ham, Rejuries which did not require treat- and Hay ment TodayPolice said Mays, employe of the and Ja Swan Taxi Company, was alone in staffs n his cab when the northbound ear are com of Whitcomb struck his machine hour-lon The cab driver was hurled from boree. I the taxi and apparently crushed the I , ! beneath the careening vehicles, seas inflt;police stated. mg in oDamage to the two machines stration w»s estimated at $2,200 life in aMays was born in Oil City, a son One tof Charles and Jesse Glass Mays, ported ; He had been a resident of Butler C, F. N for a number of years and had cal offic been employed by the Swan Taxi the boy Company the past two years. should i Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Vio- lions. T! let Mays; a daughter, Diane, two 12, of ( sons, Dennis and Charles, all at nearby home, two brothers. Earl and Paul Eleven Mays; two sisters, Mrs. Huth Lack- have b ey and Mrs. Myrtle Dailey all of shots of Butler, “This—normally
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Oil City Auto Enquirer
Oil City, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Jul 21, 1953
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