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From: "Peter_McCrae" <>
Subject: STRINGHAM: Luther W Stringham--d.19/10/1939>USA
Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 00:01:42 +0100


Colorado Springs Gazette
Saturday, Oct. 21, 1939 page 16

Stringham Fatality year to day after two killed north of here in similar
accident

A year to the day after two persons were injured fatally on the
Denver-Colorado Springs highway in El Paso county's worst 1938 traffic
disaster, Luther W. stringham, 44, of this city, was killed instantly at
midnight Thursday in an almost identical automobile collision two miles
south of Colorado Springs on the Pueblo highway. Dr. J. Thomas Coglan,
county coroner, announced Friday there would be no inquest upon the
Stringham death. Dr. J.E. Koplowitz, Durango oculist, suffered fractures of
both knee caps and of the jaw Thursday night, and his wife, Mrs. Mildreth
Kiplowitz, incurred face and head lacerations. Attaches at Glockner hospital
regarded the condition of neither as critical Friday night.

Fourteenth Death
An insurance agent working out of headquarters at Raton, NM., Stringham was
the 14th person killed in El Paso County traffic accidents this year; two
less than at this time last year. On October 19 last year, Mrs. Julia Ann
Rhine, 70, of Lockney, Tex., and her son-in-law, Quint Tyson of Denver, were
injured fatally, and Mrs. Minnie Tyson was injured critically in a collision
on the Denver highway, one and a half miles south of Palmer Lake. Occupants
of the other car, C.C. Williams and L.D. Adams, former Fort Warren soldiers,
later were imprisoned in connection with that accident. Adams was sentenced
in district court to five to eight years in the state penitentiary on a
charge of driving a car and causing a death while under the influence of
liquor. Williams, pleading guilty before Judge John E. Little to the lesser
charge of accessory during the fact, was sentenced to one year in the El
Paso county jail and fine $250. Both still serving their terms.
Headon collision
Stringham was the second person killed in an El Paso county traffic accident
in less than a week, Edward Neal 18, was fatally injured last Sunday when
his motorcycle and an automobile collided. Thursday night's accident
occurred according to Deputy Sheriff Jerry O'Driscoll, when the Stringham
car being driven south at high speed, collided headon with the Northbound
machine driven by Mr. Kiplowitz. Mrs. Kiplowitz told O'Driscoll she was
driving slowly, about 30 miles an hour, when the oncoming Stringham car
veered suddenly toward her. The deputy sheriff said the cars met on the
Kiplowitz' side of the highway.

O'Driscoll said he found a hal-pint whisky bottle, partly filled, in
Stringham's car. Stringham's head was crushed, his features disfigured and
his neck broken. Only the three persons were in the two cars. Stringham had
been a resident of Colorado Springs for approximately 38 years, coming here
when he was six years old. He was born in Denver on June 3, 1895. For many
years he was employed by the Santa Fe railroad and was a member of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He leaves his mother, Mrs. Samuel
Cowgill, 109 S. 13th St., with whom he recently made his home, a daughter,
Betty Lou Stringham, Boulder, Colo.; a son, Luther W. Stringham, Jr., who is
attending Minnesota University; a sister, Mrs. Harry McMillin, and a
brother, William Stringham, both of Colorado Springs; a cousin, Stella
Stringham Keller, Denver, and a niece, Mrs. Elwyn Fresh, and a nephew,
Shelly McMillin, both of Colorado Springs.



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