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- Niagara Gazette - 3/28/1929
Russell Francis Beck, seven-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell H. Beck.
of 2208 Cleveland avenue, died at 7:30
o'clock last evening in Memorial hospital
of injuries suffered at 1 o'clock
yesterday afternoon when run over by
an automobile driven by Robert J.
Forbes. 516 Eleventh street, at Ontario
avenue and Twenty-second street. The
boy suffered internal injuries when one
of the wheels of the automobile passed
over his abdomen. Forbes took him to
the hospital.
In reporting the accident to police,
Forbes said that the boy was roller
skating on the pavement and skated directly
into the path of the automobile.
Forbes was unable to stop or swerve
the car to avoid hitting thc boy, he
said.
Besides his parents the boy is survived
by a sister. Mary. Catherine Beck:
his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Sullivan, this city, and Frank Beck. In-
diana. and several uncles and aunts In
this city. The funeral will be held
Saturday morning at 8:30 o'clock from
the home and at 9 o'clock in the Church
ol'the Sacred Heart. South avenue and
Tenth street. Burial will be ln Falr-
view cemetery. Niagara Falls. Ont,
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