Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1919 — SON OF CREATOR OF “ABE MARTIN” DROWNS FRIDAY. [ARTICLE]

SON OF CREATOR OF “ABE MARTIN” DROWNS FRIDAY.

Indianapolis, May 30.—The year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank K. Hubbard was drowned and Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard and their daughter, Virginia, injured in an automobile accideift near Danville, Ind., this afternoon. Mr. Hubbard, who is the creator of “Abe Martin,” was driving the automobile, which became unmanageable as it was coasting down hill and ran over an embankment into a pool of water about four feet deep. The body of the baby was found under the machine. The Hubbards were returning from Greencastle, where they had gone to decorate the grave of Mrs. Hubbard s mother. , ’ . . . Physicians said that the injuries sustained by Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard and their daughter were not serious.