Man who died suddenly not under arrest
Chambersburg, Aug. 16--The coroner’s inquest into the death of Lester Ankerbrand, 38 years old, who was found dead in a taxicab here early Sunday morning, established definitely that he had died form a cerebral hemorrhage and that he was not dunk, as had been reported in the first stories of the tragedy.
Witnesses testified that Ankerbrand had had a heart attack in his barber shop Saturday afternoon, from which he quickly revived, and Dr. L. S. Seaton, who examined the dead man in the taxicab, testified that he detected no odor of liquor.
chief of Police H.S. Byers also made it entirely clear today that Ankerbrand as not under arrest when he was taken to police headquarters in the taxicab. It so happened that Ankerbrand was in the taxi with Horace Mayer, another passenger, when the driver, Charles Hoover, was arrested on a charge of being drunk while driving a motor vehicle.
While all three were in the cab when a policeman drove it to headquarters, Chief Byers said Ankerbrand, has he lived, would have been no more than a material witness, like Mayer, and would not have been a defendant. Hoover has been bound over for court, under bail, on the drunken driving charge. Original dispatches to THE EVENING NEWS on the whole affair has incorrectly stated that Ankerbrand was drunk and had been under arrest when he died in the taxicab.
Chief Byers said neither Ankerbrand nor Mayer was under arrest.
The Evening News Aug. 16, 1929
Chambersburg, Aug. 16--The coroner’s inquest into the death of Lester Ankerbrand, 38 years old, who was found dead in a taxicab here early Sunday morning, established definitely that he had died form a cerebral hemorrhage and that he was not dunk, as had been reported in the first stories of the tragedy.
Witnesses testified that Ankerbrand had had a heart attack in his barber shop Saturday afternoon, from which he quickly revived, and Dr. L. S. Seaton, who examined the dead man in the taxicab, testified that he detected no odor of liquor.
chief of Police H.S. Byers also made it entirely clear today that Ankerbrand as not under arrest when he was taken to police headquarters in the taxicab. It so happened that Ankerbrand was in the taxi with Horace Mayer, another passenger, when the driver, Charles Hoover, was arrested on a charge of being drunk while driving a motor vehicle.
While all three were in the cab when a policeman drove it to headquarters, Chief Byers said Ankerbrand, has he lived, would have been no more than a material witness, like Mayer, and would not have been a defendant. Hoover has been bound over for court, under bail, on the drunken driving charge. Original dispatches to THE EVENING NEWS on the whole affair has incorrectly stated that Ankerbrand was drunk and had been under arrest when he died in the taxicab.
Chief Byers said neither Ankerbrand nor Mayer was under arrest.
The Evening News Aug. 16, 1929
Man who died suddenly not under arrest
Chambersburg, Aug. 16--The coroner’s inquest into the death of Lester Ankerbrand, 38 years old, who was found dead in a taxicab here early Sunday morning, established definitely that he had died form a cerebral hemorrhage and that he was not dunk, as had been reported in the first stories of the tragedy.
Witnesses testified that Ankerbrand had had a heart attack in his barber shop Saturday afternoon, from which he quickly revived, and Dr. L. S. Seaton, who examined the dead man in the taxicab, testified that he detected no odor of liquor.
chief of Police H.S. Byers also made it entirely clear today that Ankerbrand as not under arrest when he was taken to police headquarters in the taxicab. It so happened that Ankerbrand was in the taxi with Horace Mayer, another passenger, when the driver, Charles Hoover, was arrested on a charge of being drunk while driving a motor vehicle.
While all three were in the cab when a policeman drove it to headquarters, Chief Byers said Ankerbrand, has he lived, would have been no more than a material witness, like Mayer, and would not have been a defendant. Hoover has been bound over for court, under bail, on the drunken driving charge. Original dispatches to THE EVENING NEWS on the whole affair has incorrectly stated that Ankerbrand was drunk and had been under arrest when he died in the taxicab.
Chief Byers said neither Ankerbrand nor Mayer was under arrest.
The Evening News Aug. 16, 1929
Chambersburg, Aug. 16--The coroner’s inquest into the death of Lester Ankerbrand, 38 years old, who was found dead in a taxicab here early Sunday morning, established definitely that he had died form a cerebral hemorrhage and that he was not dunk, as had been reported in the first stories of the tragedy.
Witnesses testified that Ankerbrand had had a heart attack in his barber shop Saturday afternoon, from which he quickly revived, and Dr. L. S. Seaton, who examined the dead man in the taxicab, testified that he detected no odor of liquor.
chief of Police H.S. Byers also made it entirely clear today that Ankerbrand as not under arrest when he was taken to police headquarters in the taxicab. It so happened that Ankerbrand was in the taxi with Horace Mayer, another passenger, when the driver, Charles Hoover, was arrested on a charge of being drunk while driving a motor vehicle.
While all three were in the cab when a policeman drove it to headquarters, Chief Byers said Ankerbrand, has he lived, would have been no more than a material witness, like Mayer, and would not have been a defendant. Hoover has been bound over for court, under bail, on the drunken driving charge. Original dispatches to THE EVENING NEWS on the whole affair has incorrectly stated that Ankerbrand was drunk and had been under arrest when he died in the taxicab.
Chief Byers said neither Ankerbrand nor Mayer was under arrest.
The Evening News Aug. 16, 1929
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