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- Niagara Gazette - 8/27/1937
Donald W. Bale, 15-year-old Niagara
Falls schoolboy, of 1813 South
avenue, was almost instantly killed
yesterday afternoon when a bicycle
he was riding down the Indian Hill
collided with an automobile driven
by George L. Hudson, 52 Hermitage
road, Rochester, at the Intersection of
the Indian Hill and Ridge roads,
town of Lewiston, as told in yester-
day's Owl edition of the Gazette.
In attempting to avoid the accident
Hudson swerved his car off the road
and was injured when it ran into the
ditch. He was taken to Memorial
hospital where he is suffering from
back injuries today. Mr. Hudson's
wife, his daughter Dorothy, his son,
Fred and his son's wife, all riding in
the car with him, were treated at the
hospital for minor abrasions.
Identification of the dead youth
was established through an investigation
started by the Gazette and continued
by police following the acci-
dent. The number of the bicycle was
ascertained and traced to the Montgomery-
Ward store in Falls street. An
examination of the store's accounts
led to the boy's name and address being
found and the body was identified
by the father, William Everett
Bale, after it had been removed to the
Bell Undertaking establishment.
Coroner Harry R. Ernes, who investigated
the fatality, Issued a certificate
of accidental death. He was
told by Hudson that the boy, whose
vision was obscured by high weeds
at the intersection, rode onto the highway
directly into the path of the
car.
The youth was a graduate of North
Junior High school and was scheduled
to enter the Senior high school
this fall. He was on the way to
Modeltown at the time to visit a
cousin. Spencer Bale. He was an accomplished
musician and played the
electric guitar in Evan White's Fretted
Instrument band.
Surviving, besides his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. William Everett Bale, is
a sister. Evelyn.
Funeral services will be held Saturday
at 2:30 p. m. from the Bell
Undertaking establishment, with the
Rev. Thomas Tomerlln officiating. Interment
will be In Dlckersonville
cemetery.
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Abt 1922 - 1937 (15 years)