Three Others Injured When Machine Runs Off Faulk Road Into Field
Driver, Blinded By Lights of Approaching Auto, Held on Manslaughter Charge
John F. Kirlin, 42, of 519 West Thirty-fourth Street, was killed, and three others injured early yesterday morning when a car driven by Louis Davis, jeweler, 300 West Twentieth Street, ran off the Faulk Road and turned over near Booth's Corner, Pa. Davis and Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Jeffers, Jr, 233 West Thirtieth Street, received only minor cuts and bruises.
Kirlin died of a fractured -skull, his head being crushed be-tween the door and the body of the -car as it turned over. Davis and his party were returning from the Chelsea Country Club when he was blinded by the lights of an approaching car and lost control of his auto which ran off the road and turned over in a nearby field. The Marcus Hook ambulance was summoned, but Kirlin was dead on its arrival. Deputy Coroner R. P. L. ,. Cloud of Marcus Hook removed the body to the morgue and later released it to the family. Davis was arrested by Patrolman Frieze of Marcus Hook, and held under $2000 bail on a manslaughter charge by Magistrate O.T. Donnell to await the outcome of the coroner's inquest.
Funeral services for Mr. Kirlin will be held from his late home Monday morning, with requiem mass in Christ Our King Catholic Church at 9:30 o'clock. Interment will be in Cathedral cemetery. Mr. Kirlin was born and reared in this city, the son of the late Michael and Mary Canning Kirlin. Surviving him are: His wife. Mrs. Ella Kirlin; three brothers, James, of this city; William, of Baltimore, and Paul, of McKee's Rock, Pa., and a sister, ,Mrs. Mary Mildy. of Philadelphia.
The Morning News
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Issue Date: Saturday, May 30, 1936
Driver, Blinded By Lights of Approaching Auto, Held on Manslaughter Charge
John F. Kirlin, 42, of 519 West Thirty-fourth Street, was killed, and three others injured early yesterday morning when a car driven by Louis Davis, jeweler, 300 West Twentieth Street, ran off the Faulk Road and turned over near Booth's Corner, Pa. Davis and Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Jeffers, Jr, 233 West Thirtieth Street, received only minor cuts and bruises.
Kirlin died of a fractured -skull, his head being crushed be-tween the door and the body of the -car as it turned over. Davis and his party were returning from the Chelsea Country Club when he was blinded by the lights of an approaching car and lost control of his auto which ran off the road and turned over in a nearby field. The Marcus Hook ambulance was summoned, but Kirlin was dead on its arrival. Deputy Coroner R. P. L. ,. Cloud of Marcus Hook removed the body to the morgue and later released it to the family. Davis was arrested by Patrolman Frieze of Marcus Hook, and held under $2000 bail on a manslaughter charge by Magistrate O.T. Donnell to await the outcome of the coroner's inquest.
Funeral services for Mr. Kirlin will be held from his late home Monday morning, with requiem mass in Christ Our King Catholic Church at 9:30 o'clock. Interment will be in Cathedral cemetery. Mr. Kirlin was born and reared in this city, the son of the late Michael and Mary Canning Kirlin. Surviving him are: His wife. Mrs. Ella Kirlin; three brothers, James, of this city; William, of Baltimore, and Paul, of McKee's Rock, Pa., and a sister, ,Mrs. Mary Mildy. of Philadelphia.
The Morning News
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Issue Date: Saturday, May 30, 1936
Three Others Injured When Machine Runs Off Faulk Road Into Field
Driver, Blinded By Lights of Approaching Auto, Held on Manslaughter Charge
John F. Kirlin, 42, of 519 West Thirty-fourth Street, was killed, and three others injured early yesterday morning when a car driven by Louis Davis, jeweler, 300 West Twentieth Street, ran off the Faulk Road and turned over near Booth's Corner, Pa. Davis and Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Jeffers, Jr, 233 West Thirtieth Street, received only minor cuts and bruises.
Kirlin died of a fractured -skull, his head being crushed be-tween the door and the body of the -car as it turned over. Davis and his party were returning from the Chelsea Country Club when he was blinded by the lights of an approaching car and lost control of his auto which ran off the road and turned over in a nearby field. The Marcus Hook ambulance was summoned, but Kirlin was dead on its arrival. Deputy Coroner R. P. L. ,. Cloud of Marcus Hook removed the body to the morgue and later released it to the family. Davis was arrested by Patrolman Frieze of Marcus Hook, and held under $2000 bail on a manslaughter charge by Magistrate O.T. Donnell to await the outcome of the coroner's inquest.
Funeral services for Mr. Kirlin will be held from his late home Monday morning, with requiem mass in Christ Our King Catholic Church at 9:30 o'clock. Interment will be in Cathedral cemetery. Mr. Kirlin was born and reared in this city, the son of the late Michael and Mary Canning Kirlin. Surviving him are: His wife. Mrs. Ella Kirlin; three brothers, James, of this city; William, of Baltimore, and Paul, of McKee's Rock, Pa., and a sister, ,Mrs. Mary Mildy. of Philadelphia.
The Morning News
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Issue Date: Saturday, May 30, 1936
Driver, Blinded By Lights of Approaching Auto, Held on Manslaughter Charge
John F. Kirlin, 42, of 519 West Thirty-fourth Street, was killed, and three others injured early yesterday morning when a car driven by Louis Davis, jeweler, 300 West Twentieth Street, ran off the Faulk Road and turned over near Booth's Corner, Pa. Davis and Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Jeffers, Jr, 233 West Thirtieth Street, received only minor cuts and bruises.
Kirlin died of a fractured -skull, his head being crushed be-tween the door and the body of the -car as it turned over. Davis and his party were returning from the Chelsea Country Club when he was blinded by the lights of an approaching car and lost control of his auto which ran off the road and turned over in a nearby field. The Marcus Hook ambulance was summoned, but Kirlin was dead on its arrival. Deputy Coroner R. P. L. ,. Cloud of Marcus Hook removed the body to the morgue and later released it to the family. Davis was arrested by Patrolman Frieze of Marcus Hook, and held under $2000 bail on a manslaughter charge by Magistrate O.T. Donnell to await the outcome of the coroner's inquest.
Funeral services for Mr. Kirlin will be held from his late home Monday morning, with requiem mass in Christ Our King Catholic Church at 9:30 o'clock. Interment will be in Cathedral cemetery. Mr. Kirlin was born and reared in this city, the son of the late Michael and Mary Canning Kirlin. Surviving him are: His wife. Mrs. Ella Kirlin; three brothers, James, of this city; William, of Baltimore, and Paul, of McKee's Rock, Pa., and a sister, ,Mrs. Mary Mildy. of Philadelphia.
The Morning News
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Issue Date: Saturday, May 30, 1936
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