Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1916 — MAN AND WIFE FOUND DEAD UNDER CAR [ARTICLE]

MAN AND WIFE FOUND DEAD UNDER CAR

'William Hincher and Wife, of Chicago, Lose Lives Near Shelby— Result of Fast Driving.

A. D. Smith, a young man of Kniman, while riding his motorcycle on the road about a mile and a half north of Shelby this morning, came across a big Jeoffrey tcuiing car upside down in the road. He phoned to Shelby and in a short time a large number of citizens were at the scene of the wreck. Investigation disclosed the two dead bodies of a man and woman, each about forty-five years*of age. They were removed from the wreck and examination of the bodies showed that the man’s legs and the woman’s back were broken and that death in each case must have come soon after the accident.

From the appearance of the road the accident must have been caused by fast drjying. The tracks showed where the car had started towards the ditch, and the driver in attempting to right it ran the car to the other side of the road, where it turned over, pinning the occupants beneath the car. The accident was supposed to. have occurred at four minutes of nine, as the man’s watch was found to have stopped at that hour. From papers found on the man it was learned that his name was WilJiam Hincher, a traveling salesman for the Chicago branch of the Albert and J. M. Anderson Manufacturing Co., of Boston, manufacturers of electrical supplies. Further investigation disclosed that the woman was his wife and that they left Chicago this morning about 6 o’clock to attend a convention of electrical supply men at Indianapolis; Hincher was a thirty-second degree Mason of the Chicago consistory. He had secured hotel reservations at the Hotel Severn for himself and wife. Undertaker Weaver, of Shelby, took charge of the bodies and removed them to Lowell, where an inquest will be held by Dr. Graham, of Lake county.