Winchester Daily News, July, 1937
Raymond Cox, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Cox, 401 West North St., Winchester, was almost instantly killed yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock when a borrowed car driven by Chester (Shorty) Kress, 15, also of Winchester, got out of control and overturned. The accident occurred on the cinder road bordering the west edge of Goodrich Park in Winchester, the road winding around until it merges into Residence St.
Young Kress, son of Lillian Kress of East Third St., was uninjured but was a badly scared and saddened boy.
Cox, placed in the Clark, Maynard and Potter ambulance, died enroute to the Randolph County Hospital and was taken to the funeral home for burial preparation.
Dr. Lowell W. Painter, county coroner, said death was caused by a fractured skull. The boy was nearly scalped by the impact.
Too much speed was given by city police, who investigated, as the cause of the fatal accident. Kress was going south at the time and failed to negotiate a turn in the road, the back end of the car skidding in the cinders, hitting a bank and overturning.
The Cox boy's body was still in the car when it overturned, his head protruding from the window on the right side and being pinned underneath the car door.
Kress was driving the several-times wrecked Desoto of Roy Beachler, Winchester filling station operator of East Washington St. The car was badly damaged, the front end being caved in, the windshield completely demolished and the top bent.
Paul Beachler, son of the owner of the car, was in the Goodrich Park swimming pool, so Kress reported, stopping there for a swim while delivering groceries for the Fixel grocery. Not wanting to interrupt his swim, Beachler asked the two boys to finish his deliveries. They consented and began the fatal ride around the park.
[ Chester would be the father of Karen and Kent.]
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