PROBE DEATH OF WOMAN IN M'SHERRYSTOWN
Coroner's Jury Finds That Miss Emma Cramer Met Death When Struck By Street Car
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Further investigation as to the responsibility for the accident in which Miss Emma Cramer, 71, of McSherrystown, was killed late Saturday night was recommended by a coroner's jury, empanelled by Dr. Edgar A. Miller, Baltimore street, Monday afternoon. Miss Cramer's body with the skull fractured, was found Sunday morning lying along the trolley track in McSherrystown.
The coroner's inquest was held after Dr. Miller issued a certificate of accidental death due to a fractured skull. The jury, consisting of Dr. George L. Rice, F.V. Topper, Henry Martin, Sr., Charles F. Smith, George A. Sheely and Robert T. Smith, all of McSherrystown, met at the scene of the accident and later viewed Miss Cramer's body.
THREE WITNESSES HEARD
J.T. Kernan, J.C. Brady, Jr., and William Zinn, all of McSherrystown, were summoned as witnesses by the coroner's jury, and after hearing the testimony, the jurors gave out the following verdict:
"That the said Miss Emma Cramer, of McSherrystown, came to her death at a point on North street, McSherrystown, about 200 feet from Plum Creek, in the borough of McSherrystown, probably between 11:30 and midnight, July 11, 1925, by means of being struck by a trolley car of the Hanover and McSherrystown Street Railway Company and that the said jury was administered and the death of the said Miss Emma C. Cramer caused by a depressed fracture of the right tarietal bone of the skull and that we recommend further investigation as to the cause and responsibility of the accident".
E.E. Yensel, manager of the trolley company, issued a statement, Monday, before the inquest in which he set forth that the woman was not struck by the trolley car. He said he had personally interviewed motormen on cars passing the point where Miss Cramer's body was found and that none of them had been aware of an accident until they learned of it.
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He further stated that his motormen know when they run over a pebble on the track and that they would certainly have been aware if a car had struck a woman's body.
Miss Cramer was known to have been mentally deranged and frequently sat on steps in McSherrystown and went to sleep. It is thought by Dr. Miller that she wandered away from home Saturday night, sat down upon the edge of a tie of the trolley track and fell asleep.
At the place where the aged woman was struck, weeds grow up and extend over the tracks, and Dr. Miller believes that a motorman might not have noticed the woman sitting on the tie, which accounts, he said, for not discovering her body earlier.
Funeral services for the accident victim were held this morning with mass at St. Mary's Catholic church, McSherrystown, at 9 o;clock, the Rev. Father L.A. Reudter, officiating. Internment was in St. Mary's cemetery, McSherrystown.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
July 14 1925
Coroner's Jury Finds That Miss Emma Cramer Met Death When Struck By Street Car
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Further investigation as to the responsibility for the accident in which Miss Emma Cramer, 71, of McSherrystown, was killed late Saturday night was recommended by a coroner's jury, empanelled by Dr. Edgar A. Miller, Baltimore street, Monday afternoon. Miss Cramer's body with the skull fractured, was found Sunday morning lying along the trolley track in McSherrystown.
The coroner's inquest was held after Dr. Miller issued a certificate of accidental death due to a fractured skull. The jury, consisting of Dr. George L. Rice, F.V. Topper, Henry Martin, Sr., Charles F. Smith, George A. Sheely and Robert T. Smith, all of McSherrystown, met at the scene of the accident and later viewed Miss Cramer's body.
THREE WITNESSES HEARD
J.T. Kernan, J.C. Brady, Jr., and William Zinn, all of McSherrystown, were summoned as witnesses by the coroner's jury, and after hearing the testimony, the jurors gave out the following verdict:
"That the said Miss Emma Cramer, of McSherrystown, came to her death at a point on North street, McSherrystown, about 200 feet from Plum Creek, in the borough of McSherrystown, probably between 11:30 and midnight, July 11, 1925, by means of being struck by a trolley car of the Hanover and McSherrystown Street Railway Company and that the said jury was administered and the death of the said Miss Emma C. Cramer caused by a depressed fracture of the right tarietal bone of the skull and that we recommend further investigation as to the cause and responsibility of the accident".
E.E. Yensel, manager of the trolley company, issued a statement, Monday, before the inquest in which he set forth that the woman was not struck by the trolley car. He said he had personally interviewed motormen on cars passing the point where Miss Cramer's body was found and that none of them had been aware of an accident until they learned of it.
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He further stated that his motormen know when they run over a pebble on the track and that they would certainly have been aware if a car had struck a woman's body.
Miss Cramer was known to have been mentally deranged and frequently sat on steps in McSherrystown and went to sleep. It is thought by Dr. Miller that she wandered away from home Saturday night, sat down upon the edge of a tie of the trolley track and fell asleep.
At the place where the aged woman was struck, weeds grow up and extend over the tracks, and Dr. Miller believes that a motorman might not have noticed the woman sitting on the tie, which accounts, he said, for not discovering her body earlier.
Funeral services for the accident victim were held this morning with mass at St. Mary's Catholic church, McSherrystown, at 9 o;clock, the Rev. Father L.A. Reudter, officiating. Internment was in St. Mary's cemetery, McSherrystown.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
July 14 1925
PROBE DEATH OF WOMAN IN M'SHERRYSTOWN
Coroner's Jury Finds That Miss Emma Cramer Met Death When Struck By Street Car
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Further investigation as to the responsibility for the accident in which Miss Emma Cramer, 71, of McSherrystown, was killed late Saturday night was recommended by a coroner's jury, empanelled by Dr. Edgar A. Miller, Baltimore street, Monday afternoon. Miss Cramer's body with the skull fractured, was found Sunday morning lying along the trolley track in McSherrystown.
The coroner's inquest was held after Dr. Miller issued a certificate of accidental death due to a fractured skull. The jury, consisting of Dr. George L. Rice, F.V. Topper, Henry Martin, Sr., Charles F. Smith, George A. Sheely and Robert T. Smith, all of McSherrystown, met at the scene of the accident and later viewed Miss Cramer's body.
THREE WITNESSES HEARD
J.T. Kernan, J.C. Brady, Jr., and William Zinn, all of McSherrystown, were summoned as witnesses by the coroner's jury, and after hearing the testimony, the jurors gave out the following verdict:
"That the said Miss Emma Cramer, of McSherrystown, came to her death at a point on North street, McSherrystown, about 200 feet from Plum Creek, in the borough of McSherrystown, probably between 11:30 and midnight, July 11, 1925, by means of being struck by a trolley car of the Hanover and McSherrystown Street Railway Company and that the said jury was administered and the death of the said Miss Emma C. Cramer caused by a depressed fracture of the right tarietal bone of the skull and that we recommend further investigation as to the cause and responsibility of the accident".
E.E. Yensel, manager of the trolley company, issued a statement, Monday, before the inquest in which he set forth that the woman was not struck by the trolley car. He said he had personally interviewed motormen on cars passing the point where Miss Cramer's body was found and that none of them had been aware of an accident until they learned of it.
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He further stated that his motormen know when they run over a pebble on the track and that they would certainly have been aware if a car had struck a woman's body.
Miss Cramer was known to have been mentally deranged and frequently sat on steps in McSherrystown and went to sleep. It is thought by Dr. Miller that she wandered away from home Saturday night, sat down upon the edge of a tie of the trolley track and fell asleep.
At the place where the aged woman was struck, weeds grow up and extend over the tracks, and Dr. Miller believes that a motorman might not have noticed the woman sitting on the tie, which accounts, he said, for not discovering her body earlier.
Funeral services for the accident victim were held this morning with mass at St. Mary's Catholic church, McSherrystown, at 9 o;clock, the Rev. Father L.A. Reudter, officiating. Internment was in St. Mary's cemetery, McSherrystown.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
July 14 1925
Coroner's Jury Finds That Miss Emma Cramer Met Death When Struck By Street Car
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Further investigation as to the responsibility for the accident in which Miss Emma Cramer, 71, of McSherrystown, was killed late Saturday night was recommended by a coroner's jury, empanelled by Dr. Edgar A. Miller, Baltimore street, Monday afternoon. Miss Cramer's body with the skull fractured, was found Sunday morning lying along the trolley track in McSherrystown.
The coroner's inquest was held after Dr. Miller issued a certificate of accidental death due to a fractured skull. The jury, consisting of Dr. George L. Rice, F.V. Topper, Henry Martin, Sr., Charles F. Smith, George A. Sheely and Robert T. Smith, all of McSherrystown, met at the scene of the accident and later viewed Miss Cramer's body.
THREE WITNESSES HEARD
J.T. Kernan, J.C. Brady, Jr., and William Zinn, all of McSherrystown, were summoned as witnesses by the coroner's jury, and after hearing the testimony, the jurors gave out the following verdict:
"That the said Miss Emma Cramer, of McSherrystown, came to her death at a point on North street, McSherrystown, about 200 feet from Plum Creek, in the borough of McSherrystown, probably between 11:30 and midnight, July 11, 1925, by means of being struck by a trolley car of the Hanover and McSherrystown Street Railway Company and that the said jury was administered and the death of the said Miss Emma C. Cramer caused by a depressed fracture of the right tarietal bone of the skull and that we recommend further investigation as to the cause and responsibility of the accident".
E.E. Yensel, manager of the trolley company, issued a statement, Monday, before the inquest in which he set forth that the woman was not struck by the trolley car. He said he had personally interviewed motormen on cars passing the point where Miss Cramer's body was found and that none of them had been aware of an accident until they learned of it.
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He further stated that his motormen know when they run over a pebble on the track and that they would certainly have been aware if a car had struck a woman's body.
Miss Cramer was known to have been mentally deranged and frequently sat on steps in McSherrystown and went to sleep. It is thought by Dr. Miller that she wandered away from home Saturday night, sat down upon the edge of a tie of the trolley track and fell asleep.
At the place where the aged woman was struck, weeds grow up and extend over the tracks, and Dr. Miller believes that a motorman might not have noticed the woman sitting on the tie, which accounts, he said, for not discovering her body earlier.
Funeral services for the accident victim were held this morning with mass at St. Mary's Catholic church, McSherrystown, at 9 o;clock, the Rev. Father L.A. Reudter, officiating. Internment was in St. Mary's cemetery, McSherrystown.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
July 14 1925
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