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- Geneva NY Daily Times - 10/19/1936
Canandaigua, Oct. 19-Two men
are dead and a third was seriously
Injured in an automobile crash in
the Canandaigua-Chapin highway
about 12:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
The dead are:
Maurice Fitzgerald, 65, of Hopewell.
George A. Benham, 79, of Canandaigua.
Seriously injured in Memorial
Hospital here is William J. Meredith,
47, former newspaper publisher,
of this city- He has a crushed
chest and a bad cut on the forehead
which required five stitches to
close.
The crash occurred at the Intersection
of the Chapin highway with
the Littleville road, about three and
one-half miles east of this city.
There were no eye-witnesses.
Fitzgerald was a passenger in the
Benham taxi. It Is believed that
the taxi attempted to make a left
hand turn into the driveway of
Fitzgerald's home when t h e car was
struck broadside by Meredith, proceeding
west towards Canandaigua.
Fog and rain are said to have obscured
Meredith's view of the car
swinging across the road.
Both cars were carried west by
the Impact into the front yard of
the Fitzgerald home. Benham and
Fitzgerald were thrown from their
machine while Meredith was found
by passing motorists in a dazed
condition behind the wheel of his
car. The right-hand aide of the
Benham machine was practically
demolished and the right front end
of the other oar badly damaged.
Fitzgerald receaved a fractured
pelvis causing an Internal hemmorrage
from which death resulted, according
to Coroner Leon A. Stet-
son, of this city. He succumbed to
his injuries shortly after being
brought to Memorial Hospital. Ben-
ham died in the hospital here late
yesterday. He received a fractured
skull and pelvis.
Surviving Fitzgerald is one sister.
Miss Mary Fitzgerald, with whom
he resided. His body was taken to
undertaking rooms in Shortsvllle.
Mrs. Meredith is a daughter of
William S. Moore, Geneva attorney,
and with her son, resides at
the Moore residence there.
Benham is survived by a son, A.
Harold Benham, of Rochester, and
a daughter, Mrs. S. Hall, of Canandaigua.
Funeral services will be
held tomorrow at 2 o'clock in Woodlawn
Chapel. The dead man was a
resident of Canandaigua for 40
years during which time he operated,
first, a livery business, and later
a taxi business.
Coroner Stetson will hold a double
inquest. The accident was investigated
by Deputy Sheriffs James L
Locke and Victor Campbell with
Special Deputy Arthur LeFevre.
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