Dies of Injuries
The following Ingersoll despatch [sic]
will be of interest to many Simcoe and Norfolk people, among whom the
victim of the accident, Mrs. Fitch, was widely known.
Ingersoll, Oct. 14 -- Another name
was added to the list of motor fatalities when Mrs. Leonard Fitch, victim
of a collision on the Avon Road north of Crampton, on Tuesday, died in
Alexandra Hospital at an early hour this morning.
Unconscious from the time of the
accident, she was not expected to recover from her injuries.
With Mrs. Fitch at the time of
accident were her husband, who was driving a touring car, and her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. William Sprague, formerly of the Hamilton district. Mr. Fitch
as well as Mr. and Mrs. Sprague, were also injured, and the car he was
driving was demolished.
Mrs. Fitch was 25 years of age and
was born at Courtland, south of here. She had lived at Simcoe, St. Thomas,
Port Stanley, and, with her husband, came to the Crampton district from
Muskoka only on Sunday last.
The funeral service was held in
Ingersoll on Sunday last and burial took place in the Rural Cemetery of
that town.
