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- Utica NY Observer - 7/28/1962
LEICHTY was killed in a
fall from a farm trailer at
Route 12 and Dayton Road
about 9:30 a. m.
Trooper h. g. Fox of the
Remsen State Police substation
said Leichty was riding
on the rear of a two-wheel
trailer being towed on Dayton
Road by a tractor driven,
by his farmhand, Gordon
Thomas, 33.
As the, vehicles crossed
Route 12, the pole on the
trailer broke and Leichty
fell forward to the road,
Fox said.
He was pronounced dead at
the scene bv Dr. Robert
Smith of Boonville. Dr. T. W.
Piekielniak. coroner, said
death was accidental and
caused by fractures of the
neck and skull.
Fox said L e i c h t y and
Thomas-were-on their way-to
carry water to a neighboring
farm for livestock. The other
farm was without water, but
not because of the drought,
the trooper said.
The body was taken to
the Ackley Funeral Home
in Remsen by the Prospect-
Ambulance S e r v i c e.
Leichty, a widower, is survived
by a daughter, Mrs.
Ellsworth Worden of Fairchild
Road, Remsen
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Abt 1891 - 1962 (71 years)