The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1914-09-25
CHAS. Mann, JR.,
MEETS SUDDEN DEATH
KILLED WHEN AUTO ROLLS OVER
NEAR PINE RUN
Was on His Way to Clio to Visit Grand
father. Companion Escapes Prac-
tically Unhurt.

Chas. Mann, Jr., son of MIR. and Mrs.
C. H. Mann, of Flint, was instantly
killed last Sunday evening at about six
O'Clock when an automobile which he
was driving turned turtle, throwing
him out and breaking his neck. The
young man was on his way to Clio to
see his grandfather, N. w. Mann, when
the accident occurred, and had young
man companion, Bert O'Leary, in the
machine. The latter was thrown clear
from the car when it turned over and
escaped practically unhurt. The acci-
dent took place about one-half mile
south of Pine Run.
1t appears that Mr.. Mann was at
tsmpting to pass machine going in the
same direction as his own and got too
close to the ditch with the result that
the auto he was driving, Ford run
about, turned so as to bring it sideways
to the road and rolled twice over, ac-
cording to Mr.. Mann's companion. AS
soon as the latter could gather himself
up after the accident, he went to the
assistance of the stricken young man,
whose body laid at the edge of the
road, but the only evidence of life
given by the latter was gasp or two.
The parties occupying the auto that the
young men were attempting to pass,
hearing the crash, stopped and assisted
in carrying the body into the house of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jay Green, near where
the accident occurred. DR.. Hugh Gra-
ham, of Mt. Morris, was Immediately
summoned but found life extinct, the
unfortunate young mans neck having
been broken. The only visible mark on
the features was slight bruise on the
left cheek.
By singular coincidence Mr.. and
Mrs. C. H. Mann were members of an
auto party Immediately following the
machine driven by their son, the other
persons in the machine being F. c.
Bache and wife, of Flint, and j. Culli-
ton and wife, of Mt. Morris, arriving
at the scene of the accident ten or fif-
teen minutes after it occurred, and just
as the tJody was being carried into the
house. The grief of the stricken par
ents was peculiarly pathetic. Soon af-
ter the accident an undertaken was
summoned from Flint and conveyed the
body to that city.
Harvey S. Griswold, of Pine Run, was
sitting under tree few rods distant
from the scene of the accident when it
occurred and heard the crash as the
auto rolled over. He says that all he
could see was a cloud of dust from
which emergedthe auto the boys were
attempting to pass. He Immediately
ran to the scene and found O'Leary
holding Mr.. Mann's head in his hands.
ION the day following the tragedy the
nheriff and coroner visited the scene and
it is their theory that the front wheel
of the auto struck rut and that the
steering wheel was jerked from the
drivers hands. This, of course, may
be true, but the ditch is not deep and
the road is fairly good at the place
where the accident occurred and the
whole thing was over so quickly that
the facts will probably never be known.
One front and one rear wheel of the
auto were broken, the tenders and
steering gear were bent and the wind
shield smashed. =
Charlie Mann was born in Clio. Sept.
s, 1893 and spent his young boyhood
DAYS here, where he was student in
the public schools, removing with his
parents to Flint about fourteen years
ago. He was the only child of his
parents, a graduate of the Catholic
parochial schools of Flint and of Notre
Dame College and was in his second
year at the Detroit College sof Law,
for which institution he expected to
leave on the morning following his
; death. His life promised to be use
ful one and his bereaved parents and
grandfather will have the heartfelt
sympathy of all who know them.
Upon receipt of the sad news of the
tragedy, Judge Philip T. VanZile, dean
of the Detroit College of Law, wrote a
feeling letter of coincidence to the be-
reaved parents in which he testified to
the many excellent qualities of their
son and said that he was one of the
brightest and most promising students
in the school.
Funeral services were held in st.
Michaeps church, at Flint, at $3.50
O'Clock, Thursday morning, Rev. Father
Murphy officiating. The funeral was
largely attended, the Knights of Co
lunibus, of which Mr.. Mann was
member, and his classmates and repre-
sentatives Of the, faculty of Detroit
college of Law, attending in body.
IInterment was in Calvary cemetery at