This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2ZB.2ACE/355 Message Board Post: ACCIDENT ON HIGHWAY IS FATAL Edmund M. Hill, of Dufur , son of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Hill, and brother of Mrs. L. H. Huggins, of this city, was fatally injured in an automobile accident on the Columbia River Highway, just west of The Dalles Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Hill sustained a broken pelvis and other serious injuries that will keep her in the hospital for three months and unable to walk for at least six months. Mrs. Hill is a sister of Mrs. L.E. Clark, who with her husband recently left for Long Beach, Calif. Mrs. and Mrs. Clark on receipt of news of the tragedy left at once for home. It was at firest reported that Mr. Hill's car was hooked by a speed maniace who dashed past him and that the car was dragged some distance and dumped over a fill. Officers, securing a description of the machine supposed to have caused the accident, telephoned to all adjoining towns. Frank A. Gilcrest and A. STanley Pullin, southern California boys, were arrested. Testimony at the coroner's jury, however, developed an alibi for them. The men were held in jail, following the cornoner's verdict, which failed to specify what caused the care to go over the bank. Francis V. Galloway, district attorney of Wasco county, sought new evidence against them. It was considered that the young men would be freed. The fatally injured man, his death having occurred as he was being hurried to the operating table at The Dalles hospital, was survied by four children. All were injured. One little girl suffered a hurt similar to that of her mother. The injuries of the other were less severe. Mr. Hill's funeral occured at Dlufur Tuesday. He was a prominent citizen of Dufur, and a large crowd was present. Those from here at the funeral included: Mr. and Mrs. Huggins, Mr and Mrs. B. L. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Wells, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Mack. The two California boys were finally entirely exonerated. Dictrict Attorney Galloway making the following statement: "Every statement that these boys have made in relation to this case I have found to be truthful. At this hearing no evidence has been developed which indicates that these men are responsible for this affair in any way. The whole thing has been the result of a natural misapprehension and resulted from the zeal of the officers to capture those responsible for the tragedy. (This accident occurred on 27 August , 1922 while the Hill family was enroute home to Dufur from picking huckleberries. Hill's had six children, but apparently only four were with the parents.)