age 37,
MURRAY BANKS FATALLY HURT WHEN CAR HITS TREE
DEATH COMES TO
SALESMAN EARLY
THIS MORNING
Accident Happened Near Country
Club Entrance Sunday
Evening
SWERVED TO AVOID HORSE
Animal Had Strayed Into Road,
Motorist Tells Homer Police
Chief Geroge Vernum
Murray Banks, 37, of 85 Lincoln Avenue, died at 6:45 this morning at the Cortland County Hospital following an automobile crash on the new west road, Sunday night.
Mr. Banks, a salesman for the William A. Couper Sales Company, was taken to the hospital last night suffering a fractured leg, many cuts about his head and hands, and internal injuries, after the car he was driving had crashed headon into a tree near the entrance gate to the country club on the west road to Homer.
No one else was riding in the car with him.
Chief of Police George Vernum of Homer investigated the mishap. He learned from a motorist, who had witnessed the accident, that Mr. Banks had swerved his car to avoid hitting a horse which had strayed on the road. After that he lost control of the car which crashed into the large tree.
Hearing the sound of the crash, members of the John Ottenschott family, who were near the scene, hurried to the wrecked car, and lifted the injured man out. He was rushed to the hospital in the Briggs ambulance.
A resident of Cortland for about 20 years, Mr. Banks was born in Littleton, Mass., on March 2, 1903. He was the son of S.J. Banks and Margaret Kenney Banks.
He was married to Ellen Beattie on June 12, 1924 in the First Presbyterian Church here, by the late Rev. Carl W. Scovel. They had one son, Emerson.
Mr. Banks had been employed as salesman at the Couper garage for four and a half years. Prior to that he had worked at the old Central Garage for a number of years.
Survivors include his wife and son, Emerson; his father, S.J. Banks; and six brothers, Percy, Dell and Archie Banks of Littleton, Mass., and Claude, Ted and Quentin Banks of Syracuse.
No funeral arrangements have been made as yet.
-Cortland Standard, Cortland, N.Y., Monday Evening, October 14, 1940, p. 2
MURRAY BANKS FATALLY HURT WHEN CAR HITS TREE
DEATH COMES TO
SALESMAN EARLY
THIS MORNING
Accident Happened Near Country
Club Entrance Sunday
Evening
SWERVED TO AVOID HORSE
Animal Had Strayed Into Road,
Motorist Tells Homer Police
Chief Geroge Vernum
Murray Banks, 37, of 85 Lincoln Avenue, died at 6:45 this morning at the Cortland County Hospital following an automobile crash on the new west road, Sunday night.
Mr. Banks, a salesman for the William A. Couper Sales Company, was taken to the hospital last night suffering a fractured leg, many cuts about his head and hands, and internal injuries, after the car he was driving had crashed headon into a tree near the entrance gate to the country club on the west road to Homer.
No one else was riding in the car with him.
Chief of Police George Vernum of Homer investigated the mishap. He learned from a motorist, who had witnessed the accident, that Mr. Banks had swerved his car to avoid hitting a horse which had strayed on the road. After that he lost control of the car which crashed into the large tree.
Hearing the sound of the crash, members of the John Ottenschott family, who were near the scene, hurried to the wrecked car, and lifted the injured man out. He was rushed to the hospital in the Briggs ambulance.
A resident of Cortland for about 20 years, Mr. Banks was born in Littleton, Mass., on March 2, 1903. He was the son of S.J. Banks and Margaret Kenney Banks.
He was married to Ellen Beattie on June 12, 1924 in the First Presbyterian Church here, by the late Rev. Carl W. Scovel. They had one son, Emerson.
Mr. Banks had been employed as salesman at the Couper garage for four and a half years. Prior to that he had worked at the old Central Garage for a number of years.
Survivors include his wife and son, Emerson; his father, S.J. Banks; and six brothers, Percy, Dell and Archie Banks of Littleton, Mass., and Claude, Ted and Quentin Banks of Syracuse.
No funeral arrangements have been made as yet.
-Cortland Standard, Cortland, N.Y., Monday Evening, October 14, 1940, p. 2
age 37,
MURRAY BANKS FATALLY HURT WHEN CAR HITS TREE
DEATH COMES TO
SALESMAN EARLY
THIS MORNING
Accident Happened Near Country
Club Entrance Sunday
Evening
SWERVED TO AVOID HORSE
Animal Had Strayed Into Road,
Motorist Tells Homer Police
Chief Geroge Vernum
Murray Banks, 37, of 85 Lincoln Avenue, died at 6:45 this morning at the Cortland County Hospital following an automobile crash on the new west road, Sunday night.
Mr. Banks, a salesman for the William A. Couper Sales Company, was taken to the hospital last night suffering a fractured leg, many cuts about his head and hands, and internal injuries, after the car he was driving had crashed headon into a tree near the entrance gate to the country club on the west road to Homer.
No one else was riding in the car with him.
Chief of Police George Vernum of Homer investigated the mishap. He learned from a motorist, who had witnessed the accident, that Mr. Banks had swerved his car to avoid hitting a horse which had strayed on the road. After that he lost control of the car which crashed into the large tree.
Hearing the sound of the crash, members of the John Ottenschott family, who were near the scene, hurried to the wrecked car, and lifted the injured man out. He was rushed to the hospital in the Briggs ambulance.
A resident of Cortland for about 20 years, Mr. Banks was born in Littleton, Mass., on March 2, 1903. He was the son of S.J. Banks and Margaret Kenney Banks.
He was married to Ellen Beattie on June 12, 1924 in the First Presbyterian Church here, by the late Rev. Carl W. Scovel. They had one son, Emerson.
Mr. Banks had been employed as salesman at the Couper garage for four and a half years. Prior to that he had worked at the old Central Garage for a number of years.
Survivors include his wife and son, Emerson; his father, S.J. Banks; and six brothers, Percy, Dell and Archie Banks of Littleton, Mass., and Claude, Ted and Quentin Banks of Syracuse.
No funeral arrangements have been made as yet.
-Cortland Standard, Cortland, N.Y., Monday Evening, October 14, 1940, p. 2
MURRAY BANKS FATALLY HURT WHEN CAR HITS TREE
DEATH COMES TO
SALESMAN EARLY
THIS MORNING
Accident Happened Near Country
Club Entrance Sunday
Evening
SWERVED TO AVOID HORSE
Animal Had Strayed Into Road,
Motorist Tells Homer Police
Chief Geroge Vernum
Murray Banks, 37, of 85 Lincoln Avenue, died at 6:45 this morning at the Cortland County Hospital following an automobile crash on the new west road, Sunday night.
Mr. Banks, a salesman for the William A. Couper Sales Company, was taken to the hospital last night suffering a fractured leg, many cuts about his head and hands, and internal injuries, after the car he was driving had crashed headon into a tree near the entrance gate to the country club on the west road to Homer.
No one else was riding in the car with him.
Chief of Police George Vernum of Homer investigated the mishap. He learned from a motorist, who had witnessed the accident, that Mr. Banks had swerved his car to avoid hitting a horse which had strayed on the road. After that he lost control of the car which crashed into the large tree.
Hearing the sound of the crash, members of the John Ottenschott family, who were near the scene, hurried to the wrecked car, and lifted the injured man out. He was rushed to the hospital in the Briggs ambulance.
A resident of Cortland for about 20 years, Mr. Banks was born in Littleton, Mass., on March 2, 1903. He was the son of S.J. Banks and Margaret Kenney Banks.
He was married to Ellen Beattie on June 12, 1924 in the First Presbyterian Church here, by the late Rev. Carl W. Scovel. They had one son, Emerson.
Mr. Banks had been employed as salesman at the Couper garage for four and a half years. Prior to that he had worked at the old Central Garage for a number of years.
Survivors include his wife and son, Emerson; his father, S.J. Banks; and six brothers, Percy, Dell and Archie Banks of Littleton, Mass., and Claude, Ted and Quentin Banks of Syracuse.
No funeral arrangements have been made as yet.
-Cortland Standard, Cortland, N.Y., Monday Evening, October 14, 1940, p. 2
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