Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1916 — MAN AND WIFE FOUND DEAD [ARTICLE]

MAN AND WIFE FOUND DEAD

Necks of Roth Broken When Auto Turns Over. Reneath a seven-passenger Jeffery touring car in a ditch beside the Shelby road five miles south of Lowell, tbe bodies of William B. Hincher and his wife of Chicago were found Wednesday morning by A. D. Smith of Knlrnan as he was passing on a motorcycle. The necks of both the man and woman were broken and death had been instantaneous. The accident happened at about 8 o’clock. The couple had started early Wednesday morning from their Chicago home for Indianapolis. Their machine turtled when it became unmanageable because of a broken steering gear. The heavy car buried them in the ditch. In a pocket of the man’s ciotheg were found papers identifying him

to be William 'ft. Hincher and a member of the William B. Warren lodge, 209 Illinois, of Masons. The Hinchers lived at 1415 Estes avenue, Chicago, and he was head of the Hincher Manufacturing , Co. The remains were taken to the Lowell morgue and later sent to Chicago.