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Auto
On Way
Driver Freed On
Bond Pending
Inquest.
HONOR GRADUATE
Kathryn Durdel Death
Caused by Fractured
Skull, Coroner Says-
Miss Kathryn Durdel, 23,
an honor graduate nurse of
Flower Hospital, was killed in
the 3300 block of Cherry
Street at 6:50 a. m. today
when she was struck by the
automobile driven by Law¬
rence Parks, 38, of 3844 Egge-
man Avenue, proprietor of a
tavern.
Her death was the first to result
from a traffic accident in Lucas
County in 1939.
Parks was arrested as a material
witness and released on $500 bond
by Coroner William M. Shapiro.
Home in Elmore
Miss Durdel's home was in El¬
more, O., ,but since she had been
put in charge of the surgery at
Flower Hospital she had been living
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. R.
Spitjer, 315 HilJwood Drive.
Mirs Durdel left the Spitler home
at 6:45 a. m to walk to the hos¬
pital, where she was to go on duty
15 minutes later. Parks, who oper¬
ates a restaurant and tavern at 388
Phillips Avenue, was driving north
in Cherry Street.
Miss Durdel started to cross
Cherry Street, 51 feet north of the
Oakland Avenue intersection, where
there is a traffic light.
Parks told Patrolmen Howard
Tripp and Lynn Waters that he
had stopped for the traffic light
and was driving at about 25 miles
an hour when Miss Durdel sudden¬
ly emerged from behind a parked
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MISS KATHRYN DURDEL
Year's First Traffic Victim
