NEWS: John Wiley KENDALL, son of Congressman and Mrs. Samuel A. Kendall of 
Meyersdale, Oct. 1930, absolved from his car wreck in which a student was killed 
and two injured  

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GEORGE WADDELL

Student Killed and Two Injured
When John W. Kendall's Car Was Wrecked in Collision with a Truck

  John Wiley Kendall, son of Congressman and Mrs. Samuel A. Kendall of 
Meyersdale, figured in a highway tragedy early last Saturday morning in which 
one of his companions was killed outright, one was seriously injured and another 
slightly injured, while he escaped unhurt.
  All three victims of the accident were students of the University of 
Pittsburgh and friends of Mr. Kendall.  He was taking them in his car from 
Pittsburgh to the home of the most unfortunate of the quartet, George Waddell, 
aged 22, at Philippi, W.Va., where they expected to arrive in time for breakfast 
with Waddell's parents, and later in the day they intended to proceed to 
Morgantown, W.Va., to witness the Pitt-West Virginia University football game.
  They left Pittsburgh about 11:30 Friday night and were near Waynesburg, Pa., 
when disaster loomed up ahead of them.  A truck without tail-lights was stalled 
in the road ahead of them, which, owing to fog, Kendall, who was driving, failed 
to see in time to avoid colliding with it.
  Waddell and Thomas Ewing, aged 21, of Columbus, O., were riding in the rumble 
seat and it was they who suffered most by the accident.  Waddell was killed 
instantly and Ewing was very severely injured.  Francis Franklin, of Pittsburgh 
received minor injuries and Kendall escaped with a slight cut on the forehead.
  Ewing and Franklin were taken to the Waynesburg Hospital, from which the 
latter was discharged on Monday, and it is expected that Ewing will be able to 
be moved to his home the latter part of this week.
  The Pittsburgh Gazette-Post published a Waynesburg dispatch stating that State 
Highway Patrolman Victor Jones charged Mr. Kendall with driving while 
intoxicated and reckless driving, but two doctors testified at the coroner's 
inquest that there was no sign of any of the victims, or the driver, having been 
under the influence of liquor and the survivors themselves testified that they 
had not been drinking and had no liquor with them.  The coroner's jury 
completely absolved Kendall from all blame for the accident, and the parents of 
young Waddell and his wounded companions also absolved him.
  The Waddell family formerly lived in Meyersdale and the young man who was 
killed was a frequent visitor at the Kendall home here.  His untimely death and 
injury of two other friends of John Wiley Kendall are deeply deplored by the 
Kendall family, and most especially by John himself.

Meyersdale Republican, October 9, 1930