Archie T. Hamlin (1910-1928)

HAMLIN

Posted By: Doug Atkinson (email)
Date: 3/29/2009 at 07:21:55

Archie Thomas Hamlin
(January 21, 1910 - October 18, 1928)

Published in Council Bluffs Nonpareil,
Friday, October 19, 1928.Page 1,
Banner Headline Woman Whose Husband Was Killed in Auto Accident May Live

Goldapp Machine Parked on Paving Blamed for Crash

Hope was offered by Mercy hos­pital authorities Friday for the life of Mrs. A.P. Hamlin, who suffered serious injuries in an automobile collision which took the life of her husband on South Avenue near the Iowa School for the Deaf shortly before 11 o’clock Thursday night.

The car occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin were being driven by John Pavelich when it crashed into a truck parked at the edge of the pavement. The truck was owned by Goldapp brothers of Treynor, who also own the large stock truck which killed Mrs. Marie Wood on Pearl street Wednesday.

Stopped to Take Off Chains.

Boyd Cain, 19, Treynor, driver of the truck, told police at the scene of the accident that he had stopped to take off the chains. He saw
that the wheels were not just right for the opening of the chain catch and drove on a few feet further, he said. He had just stopped the sec­ond time and pulled back his emergency brake when the touring car hit the truck, he declared.

Cain was accompanied by Miss Hulga Mortensen, 21, a domestic at 420 North Forty-first street, Oma­ha, and her cousin, also named Hulga Mortensen, 17, of Omaha. The two girls were returning from Treynor, having traveled by bus to visit their parents there.

Both girls supported Cain’s state­ment about the chains and said that an oncoming car with bright lights probably blinded the ill-fated party in the touring car so that they were unable to see the truck in the dim lights of their own ve­hicle. Cain said that to the best of his knowledge the truck which he was driving was equipped with a tail light in working order.

Cain is the youth who witnessed the killing of Mrs. Marie Wood by a Goldapp truck on Pearl Street Wednesday. He was driving the second truck of a fleet of four when the first vehicle struck the woman pedestrian.

After the crash on South Avenue Cain resumed his journey to Oma­ha when officers had removed the dead man and the injured woman.
He was stopped by police as he returned from Omaha with a load of stock Friday Morning. He was booked at the jail for investigation.

Employed at Larson Dairy

Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin and Pave­lich were all employed at the Mar­tin Larsen dairy, one-half mile from the city limits on South Thirteenth Street. The married couple had ac­companied Pave­lich to the home of the dairyman’s son, Arthur Larsen, on the Glenwood road, to bring several cans of milk back to the dairy.

Pavelich said Friday that the couple accompanied him merely for the ride. The car they were using was a large Oldsmobile touring car owned by Martin Larsen.

Hamlin is believe to have been killed the instant the touring car crashed into the parked stock truck. Mrs. Hamlin was hurled from the machine and was picked up unconscious by Harry Saint and Fred Bascom of the local police department. Pavelich was taken, dazed and painfully bruised, from the wreckage.

A.P. Ford, 717 South Eighth Street, agent for the Great Western railroad, reached the scene shortly after the accident and, after assist­ing Pavelich and the injured wom­an, drove to the Iowa School for the Deaf building to call police.

Pavelich said Friday that he had no idea of the presence of the stock truck until the lights of his car brought it into view too late to avoid the crash. He said he was conscious of swerving the car in a last vain attempt to avoid the truck and then knew nothing more until he found himself pinned in the wreckage of the touring car.

Mrs. Hamlin was rushed to Mercy hospital, where Dr. Arthur C. Brown performed an emergency operation. In addition to injuries to her body Mrs. Hamlin suffered a possible skull fracture and internal hurts.

Hamlin had been employed at the Larsen dairy for five years. He and Mrs. Hamlin lived in a cottage near the dairy.

Coroner H. Cutler took charge of the man’s body.

Whether an inquest into the crash will be held will not be known, County Coroner Cutler said Friday, until a complete investigation has been made.

Unless something further de­velops no inquest will be held in the death of Mrs. Marie Wood, 41, 326 Fuller Avenue, who died thirty minutes after she was struck Wednesday morning by a Goldapp truck at Pearl and First Avenue, Coroner Cutler said.

Albert Childs of Treynor, driver of the truck, an employee of the Goldapp brothers who was taken into custody by police following the accident and booked for investigation, is at liberty on a $2,000 bond.

HAMLIN RITES SUNDAY.

Funeral services for Archie Ham­lin, who was killed when the car in which he was riding crashed into a truck Thursday night, will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Cutler mortuary. Burial will be in Walnut Hill Cemetery. Mr. Hamlin is survived by his widow, Mrs. Fay Hamlin, and a sister, Mrs. Arthur Larsen of Dumfries.