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Wartime Chauffeur for Pershing Indicted for Manslaughter
Philipp T. Roan, a Keokuk attorney who chauffeured Gen. Pershing in France, was indicted by the Des Moines county grand jury on manslaughter charges in the death of 10 year old Marjorie Griesel. The girl died after a car struck her riding a horse on Summer street road near the city limits on the night of November 28, 1926. Judge John M. Rankin, a Lee county district court judge, was a passenger in Roan's car.
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Burlington, Ja
Philipp T. Roan
Keokuk
France
Des Moines
Summer Street
John M. Rankin
Lee County