Robert Carl Baker

BAKER, MCCONNELL, KIRK

Posted By: Ken Baker (email)
Date: 10/27/2011 at 12:02:50

Leon Journal-Reporter
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa
July 7, 1927

FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT

R. C. Baker, of Kellerton, Fatally Injured
When Car Struck Guard Rail South of Osceola.

R. C. BAKER, of Kellerton, 44 years old, a brother of Mrs. Clint McCONNELL, of Leon, died in a hospital at Osceola Tuesday noon, from injuries received in an automobile accident about 4 miles south of Osceola on the Jefferson Highway. Mr. BAKER had attended the celebration at Osceola, and left Osceola about midnight in company with George KIRK and another party whose name we were unable to learn. There were many cars on the road that night which raised a lot of dust, and in some manner the car in which BAKER was riding crashed into the guard rail, one of the rails of the fence penetrating the cowl of the car and pierced BAKER's abdomen, inflicting a frightful wound. He was taken to a hospital in Osceola and given attention, but he passed away about noon the following day.

[Transcriber's note: Mrs. Clint McCONNELL's name was Elizabeth BAKER. R. C BAKER (her brother) was buried the same day as Deputy Sheriff Clint McCONNELL (her husband) was murdered. R[obert] C. BAKER was the father of Gerald "Jerry" BAKER.]

Transcription and submission by Ken Baker, March of 2009