The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-26
ia DEAD FROM
VIOLENCE OVER.
YULE HOLIDAY.
Murder, Suicide, Accidents
Bring Tragedy; Toll
to Rise Yet
By UNITED PRESS

Christmas today had brought
violent death to PA men, women
and children as murder, suicide
and accidents swept the nation.
The final count was expected to
exceed $50.
Automobile accidents caused
most of the deaths as unseason-
ably warm weather attracted hun
dreds of thousands Of motorists to
the highways.
Airplane crashes cost two lives,
one in Cunningham, Mass, an
other near st. Louis.
Firecrackers cost one life in
Miami and three in North Caro-
lima. A wild celebration in New
Orleans eliminated in one muir
der. Seven murders were report
ed in Alabama alone.
Death took no holiday Christ
mas.
80. ny nightfall yesterday n total
Of l79 deaths had been reported
in % states and it appeared the
nations total would pass $50.
Automobile accidents were the
greatest single cause of death
with total of los fatalities.
Illinois led the nation with q
violent deaths reported, 18 OF
which resulted from automobile
accidents. California was second
with l8 and New York was third
with ID.
The day brought many tragic
deaths.
On an island in Puget Sound
Marie Wyant, 8, celebrating hei
first real Christmas after years
with her parents in remote Alas
kan fur trading post, was acct.
dentally shot by a five-year-olc
boy when she went to his house
with presents. The girl was flown
to Seattle in a seaplane but died
before she reached the hospital.
Hurrying home to his family
with a Christmas tree, Max Land
berg, 65, was struck and killed by
an automobile in Detroit, Mich.
An attempt to rob J. M. Cul'
ton, 40, Richmond, KY, grocery
store keeper, of his Christmas eve
receipts ended in death for Viii
liam Thurman, "a. Culton shoj
and killed him.
Acute alcoholism eliminated IL
one Of the widest orgies in New
Orleans history. One man wa
murdered and many others wer,
injured.
Michigan police said the traffi,
jam on the states highways wa
the greatest since the beginning
Of the depression.
Seven violent deaths in Los An
geles brought the California city,
1886 violent fatality toll to 1000
The death toll bv states: Ala
bama 6, California 18, Missouri
s. Mississippi s, Tennessee I
Kansas 4, New York ID, Texas
IS, Wisconsin 8, Ohio A, Ken
lucky l, Michigan Is, Delaware
1, Iowa 6, Utah 2, Louisiana 4
Pennsylvania 6, Virginia 3, Indi
ana 6, Illinois 81, Georgia 1. Ar
kansas 4, Maryland 8, Washington
8, Oregon 1, Florida l, Distric
of Columbia A, Minnesota s8 Mas
sachusetts 3, Nebraska and Okla
homa reported none.
Ruby Nixon, Is, daughter o.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Nixon of 1r
win county, Ga, was killed in
stantly in an auto crash neal
Fitzgerald, Ga. Her brother sus
tanned minor injuries.
Abner Brass, 45. was killet
when his car crashed into a tree
IS miles south of Brooksville, Fla
His son, Elmer Brass, a passenger
in the car, was less seriously hurt
George Little, 60, was killec
instantly when a car driven by
Monroe Hemmerdinger, Of Forest
Hills, l.. l., Brown University ath
lete, struck him at Fl. Lauder
dale, Fla. A coroner's jury decid
ed the accident was unavoidable
Nine-year-old Charles Cone, o.
Statesboro, Ca, died at Madison
Fla, from injuries he received
when a frecracker exploded neal
his ear.
In Arkansas, II died from au
tomobile accidents, one was burn
ed to death and another shot him
self.
One person died from injurie!
suffered in a Mississippi bus acci
dent, another was fatally injured
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