Rockwall Co., TX - News: Paul Propes, Struck By Car ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Holli Boone Kees USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Negro Killed by Car. Garland, Tex., March 26 (Special). -- Paul Propes, 39, was killed instantly here Thursday afternoon when he was struck by a car driven by Earl Hall, former sheriff of Rockwall County, on the main highway, just inside of the city limits. Propes was hit when he ran onto the highway to get out of the way of a falling limb of a tree, which was being trimmed. The accident was termed unavoidable on the part of Mr. Hall. - March 26, 1937, Dallas Daily Times Herald, Sec. IV, p. 3, col. 5.