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Easton Express, Saturday, March 7, 1953, Page 1
Wilson Man Hurt Fatally In Crash; Two Women Killed In Bucks
County
Ralph Maul, 43, Is Victim As Vehicles Meet Head-On In Bethlehem
Twp; Pedestrians Struck On Road Near Hatboro
A 43-years-old Wilson war veteran was injured fatally in Bethlehem
Township yesterday afternoon in one of two Easton traffic accidents
which claimed a total of three lives.
Ralph Maul, of 2237 Freemansburg avenue, died in St. Luke’s
Hospital at Fountain Hill last night at 7:10 o’clock,
about four hours after the head-on collision of his car and
another automobile on alternate Route 22 at the Harvey Wagner
farm, about 1,000 feet east of Bethlehem-Easton Airport.
State Police at the Bethlehem station said they were told
by eye-witnesses that Mr. Maul, driving west, pulled out of
the line of traffic and went into the eastbound lane in attempt
to pass. His car met the Reiff car, which was traveling east,
head-on.
State police at the Bethlehem station said they were told
by eye-witnesses that Mr. Maul, driving west, pulled out of
the line of traffic and went into the eastbound lane in an
attempt to pass. His car met the Reiff car, which was traveling
east, head-on.
Clayton O. P. Werley, Lehigh County coroner, said that according
to a preliminary examination. Mr. Maul died of internal hemorrhage
and shock. Troopers Paul Feddock and Joseph Hlavaty are conducting
the investigation.
Mr. Maul was a native of Easton, son of the late Howard and
Daisy Moser Maul. He had resided with his sister, Miss Claire
I. Maul, at the Freemansburg avenue address.
He was graduated from Easton High School in1927 and during
World War II served more than three years in the Army, part
of the time in the Pacific Theater.
For the last two years he had been employed in the organic
department of J. T. Baker chemical Company in Phillipsburg.
Before that he worked as a mechanic in garages in Easton.
He was a member of St. Peter’s Evangelical Reformed
Church; Black Knights Commandery 109, Knights of Malta; Lester
W. Pfeffer Post, American Legion; Lt. Elbert C. Baker Post,
Veterans of Foreign Wars; Fleas Club, Weston Club and Columbia
Hose Company. His sister is his only immediate survivor. |
