GARY POST TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1928: AUTO CRASH VICTIM DIES; HOLD DRIVERAndrew McGuire, Age 66, Succumbs to Fractured SkullHarold Haas, age 22, 749 Jefferson, driver of the automobile which ran down and fatally Injured Andrew McGuire, age 66, 728 Georgia, a watchman for the Union Drawn Steel Company, last Sunday night, was booked on a technical charge of manslaughter following the death of Mr. McGuire in Mercy hospital yesterday afternoon. Haas was released on $3,000 bond pending the coroners inquest, the date of which has not been set. Young Haas, who told police he did not know his automobile had struck and injured anyone until he read an account of the accident in the Post-Tribune the day after the accident, went to the police station and informed police it must have been his auto which ran down Mr. McGuire.Riding with Haas at the time of the crash were James Finnerty, 926 Connecticut, employed at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube plant in Indiana Harbor, and Jake Duetsch, 4205 Massachussetts. Young Haas is the son of F. W. Haas, foreman of the electrical repair shop in Gary Works.Thought Him Highwayman: According to the story told by young Haas, and substantiated by the two other young men, they were driving east on 5th avenue about 10 o'clock Sunday night. They were traveling about 25 or 30 miles an hour when young Haas first noticed a man from the right side across the path of the auto, Haas swerved his machine to the left, he said, but the man swinging a lantern frantically, continued running into the path of the car. The Auto was across the center line of the street when the lantern was hurled through the glass of the right front door of the machine. Haas told police he thought some highwayman had attempted to hold them up and being unable to do so had thrown the lantern at the car. When the windshield crashed, Haas said he asked his friends, who were in the rear seat, if the auto had struck the man and they told him it had not. Fearing they might still be the victims of the highwayman, the boys decided to hurry away. About a mile away they stopped their car to replace a tire which had been torn off when the auto turned sharply to avoid hitting the man. They debated then whether to return to the scene but decided otherwise.Was Flagging Trolley: Examination of the Ford sedan they were driving disclosed no damage whatever to the car except on the right front door. The right front door handle was torn off and there were two or three dents in the door. Later investigation disclosed that Mr. McGuire had darted across the street to stop a street car which was passing at the time of the accident. The supposition, according to young Haas, is that he was watching the approach of the street car from the east and did not notice the automobile approaching from the west. He probably did not know of the automobile until he had crashed into the side of it as its driver swerved to avoid striking him.Mrs. McGuire, widow of the unfortunate man, was the only witness to the accident. Her husband, she told police, had started across the street in front of the Union Drawn Steel company plant to flag the street car, on which Mrs. McGuire planned to ride to Gary after visiting her husband at the plant. A passing motorist who stopped at Mrs. McGuire's signal, after several others had refused to stop, helped Mrs. McGuire carry the unconscious man into the plant office, from where he was removed to the hospital.Mr. McGuire suffered a fractured skull, a broken ankle and several fractured ribs, little hope was held out for his recovery from the time of the crash.Funeral service for the deceased were held in Marshall and Good's chapel this morning with rev. William Ayer of the Central Baptist Church in charge. The body was taken to Washington, Ia. for burial. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Haas and Harold Hass attended the funeral.Survivors are the widow, Mrs. J. A. McGuire; two daughters, Mrs. G. E. Teets of Kalona, Ia., and Miss Maude McGuire of Gary, and three sons, Thomas, Edward and Herbert McGuire, all of Gary.