Smyrna times., 1939-08-03
THREE KILLED
AT KIRKWOOD
All Three Were MiddletOwn
Boys Returning From
Wilmington
FOUR SEVERELY HURT

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killed and four others severely in
jured. in head-on collision be-
tween an automobile and a truck
on a curve between Tybout's Cor
ner and Kirkwood at a. N. Sun
day. The dead were:
Thomas R. Newman. Jr., IL, driver Of
the car. who was a son Of Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas Newman.
Robert WheatIey. Is, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Newman.
Morris Ford, ls. son Of Mrs. Florence
Price.
The injured are: Benjamin Wells,
25; William Harding Brady, p,
and Oscar Husfelt, Jr., IS, all OF
Middletown, and Brooks Wheatley,
80, of Bridgeville, who was on the
truck and is a relative of Robert
Wheatley. The conditions of the
three Middletown youths are ser
ious. Wheatley was treated for a
broken nose and decorations of the
right foot. John w. Shockley, 81,
OF Bridgeville, driver of the truck,
was suffering from shock, but es-
capped serious injury. He was ar
rested by State Patrolmen Conley
and Miller on three charges of as
sault and battery and reckless driv-
ing and was held in $500 bail by
Magistrate William B. Davis, of
New Castle. State police said the
truck, owned by Harold E. Kinder,
Of Bridgeville, and hauling canta-
loupes, was proceeding north at 80
to 35 miles an hour, when appar-
emily it swung wide in making the
turn just as the auto arrived at
the curve. The impact drove the
engine of the car back to the driv-
ers seat on which were Newman,
Wheatley, and Ford. Husfelt,
Brady, and Wells were on the rear
seat, Brady and Wells asleep. The
automobile was demolished. The
youths were taken to Wilmington
to hospitals in another truck. New
nam and Wheatley were taken to
the Delaware Hospital where they
died shortly after being admitted.
Price died at the Wilmington Gen
eral Hospital Husfelt was taken
to the Wilmington General Hos
pital, with possible fracture Of
the skull. Brady suffered frac-
tured right leg and decorations Of
the forehead which required 80
stitches to close at the Homeo-
pathic Hospital, where he was
taken with Wells, who sustained a
double fracture Of the right leg
and lacerationS of the face. Wells
was to have returned to his work
at a iddletown store the next day
after being under the care Of a
physician for previous injuries to
the same leg. The truck was dam
aged to the extent of $1,000 The
value of the car was placed at
$3.50. The youths had been at a
carnival in Middletown Saturday
night and then went to Whining
ton. They were returning home
when the collision occurred a
quarter-mile north of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad crossing at Kirk
wood Wheatley's funeral will be
held Wednesday at 2 p. m. from
the Daniels Funeral Home, Town
send, with interment at Odd Fell
lows Cemetery, Smyrna. The Rev.
L. B. Morgan OF Bethesda NJ. E.
Church will oficiate. Surviving
Wheatley are his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Wheatley; a sister,
Ruth, and four brothers, William,
Jerome, Donald, and James. Nor
riss Ford, who was sometime
known as Morris Price, was buried
Tuesday at Forest Cemetery after
services at IL a. m. in the chapel
of st. Andrews School. The Rev.
Walden Pell, headmaster of the
academy, will officiate The youths
mother, Mrs. Florence Price, is
employed at Rehoboth Beach. He
had been living with relatives at
st. Andrews School. Funeral ser
vices for Newman was held from
Daniels Funeral Home, Townsend,
afternoon. Interment was
at Massey, Md. He is survived by
his father, who is president of the
Rotary Club; a sister,
Jane, a nurse at the Delaware
Hospital where her brother died,
and two brothers, Donald and Ed
ward. He was a student at the
High School. Brady
is employed by the Safe Board Of
REPORT OF SMYRNA POLICE