Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1915 — Former Legislator Killed in Auto Accident. [ARTICLE]

Former Legislator Killed in Auto Accident.

Joseph H. Pierson of Valley Mills, claim agent Tor the T. H., I. & E. Traction Company and a former member of the legislature, was killed Wednesday afternoon in an automobile accident on the road one and one-half miles south of Ben Davis. He was pinioned beneath his car when, for some unknown reason, it overturned. Pierson was driving alone, on his way home from Indianapolis, and no one witnessed the accident. Tracks of the machine indicated that he was driving in the center of the smooth

road when the car darted to the side cf the highway and to the edge of a ditch. The tracks showed, however, that Pierson had succeeded in steering the car back to the roadway when it turned over sideways until the wheels were upright.