These are deaths mentioned in THE WASHINGTON TIMES, Saturday, August 31, 1918:
DEATHS
KILLED WHEN AUTO GOES OVER BANK
When the steering gear of his automobile broke on Aqueduct bridge, Edgar Francis HURLEY, 30 years old, of Maywood, Va., early this morning crashed into a telephone pole, broke through an iron railing and fell into a sixty-foot pier hole, being crushed to death almost instantly. The machine turned over while going down.
Leaving Washington shortly after 2 o’clock for his home in Virginia, HURLEY was driving across the bridge at a speed of about twenty miles an hour. On the Virginia side of the bridge he struck a bump which broke his steering gear, making him unable to control the machine. The automobile struck a telegraph pole and went over an embankment into a hole about sixty feet deep and about sixty feet square, excavated for one of the piers of the new Key bridge.
The hole was surrounded by a rail, but the machine went through the railing. Timbers spread across the hole about thirty feet below the surface of the ground prevented the machine from going to the bottom. HURLEY’s body was found in the machine, a five-passenger touring car.
HURLEY is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lillie HURLEY, and a brother, Lawrence, with whom he kept a machine and boiler shop at 1219 Ohio avenue northwest.
SNYDER—On Friday, August 30, 1918, at his home, 294 G st., N.W., at 2 p.m., Hiram Clifford, age 1 mo. 20 days, infant son of Rose Louise and James P. SNYDER.
Funeral services to be held at the above address today at 2 p.m. Interment private.
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WEBSTER—On Thursday, 5:15 a.m., Eugene B., beloved husband of Nettie M. WEBSTER and father of Mrs. Goldie CHATES and Daniel WEBSTER, aged fifty-six years.
Notice later.
SPY SUSPECT SHOT DEAD
OCEAN CITY, N.J., Aug. 31—Suspected of being a German spy, Thomas ELLIS, of Trenton, N.J., was killed on the beach here when resisting arrest by a coastguard. ELLIS had been acting strangely recently, and is said to have come to Ocean City in search of a nephew, who has enlisted in the Government service.
FUNERAL OF VETERAN HELD
Funeral services for Erward [sic] KEEGIN, clerk of the District Court of Claims, were held this morning from St. Jerome’s Church, Hyattsville, Md., burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Mr. KEEGIN was born in this city forty-two years ago. He was commander of Henry Lawton Camp, No. 4, Spanish War Veterans. Surviving are a wife, Mrs. Annie Kein KEEGIN, seven children and two sisters, Alice and Margaret KEEGIN.
WILLS ARE FILED
An estate valued at about $97,000 is disposed of in the will of Mrs. Pauline C. STODDARD, who died here August 23. Her will was filed for probate yesterday.
Hiram Walworth CADY, a brother, of Plattsburg, N.Y., and Mrs. Theodore Cady BAILEY, a sister, residing in Denver, Col., are the chief beneficiaries. They receive $30,000 each and an equal share in the residue of the estate.
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A will dated January 4, 1904, leaves the estate of Mrs. Julia McComb HUGGINS, of 1709 P street, northwest, to Miss Julia McComb HUGGINS, daughter of a deceased brother whom Mrs. HUGGINS adopted. Miss HUGGINS is made the sole legatee of the estate, and all the property is placed in trust.
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Elizabeth ROSS, who died August 20, makes numerous bequests in a will filed yesterday for probate. In addition to requests [sic] to relatives in Scotland, Mrs. ROSS bequeathed $200 to John SLATTERY and &750 to John B. DICKMAN, both of this city.
