Obituary: Plautz, Henry Albert, Langlade County, WI

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Plautz, Henry Albert
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Transcribed from "The Antigo Daily Journal"
Antigo, Langlade County, WI. 
Thursday, August 18, 1932 - pages 1 & 7.

HENRY PLAUTZ FATALLY HURT IN FALL FROM DITCHED TRUCK

Killed Instantly When Car Was Forced off Road by Vamp Driver

	The fifth accidental death in Langlade county within the past 
three weeks caused by an automobile being driven into the ditch occurred 
last night about 10 o'clock when Henry Plautz, age 42, was killed 
instantly as he fell out of a Blatz Brewing Co. truck that was forced in 
the ditch of highway S, about a mile and a half south of where S 
connects with high-way 64.

	Max Schumann, employee of the  Blatz Brewing Co. for the past five 
years, was the driver of the truck at the time of the accident.  
Schuman, when questioned this morning, could give no reason for Plautz 
falling out of the car.

	 Evidently the door opened due to the fact that driving the car 
into the ditch forced the body and the lock failed to hold.  The theory 
that the door lock handle on the inside was hit by Plautz's arm was 
advanced by Tony Cahak this morning when he was called to the office of 
the Blatz Brew ing Co. it to look at the truck.

	Plautz met death instantly when he fell out of the car.  The 
immediate cause of death was a broken neck.  His chest was crushed and 
he had minor cuts and bruises about the face.

	Three people were in the car at the time of the accident.  Schuman 
was driving and Mrs. Ethel Roberts, house-keeper for Plautz, was sitting 
between Schuman and Plautz.  The truck was traveling south on highway S, 
and Schuman claims that another car, going in the opposite direction, 
was approaching at a high rate of speed and forced him off the highway.  
Schuman drove into the ditch in order to avoid hitting the other car.

	The car, according to Floyd Huggins, traffic officer, traveled in 
the ditch for about 200 feet before it came to a stop.  Not much damage 
was done to the Blatz car, except that one front tire was punctured and 
the front bumper slightly bent.

	 Neither Mrs. Roberts or Schuman suffered any major injuries.  
Mrs. Roberts suffered a few minor scratches on her face and neck, and 
Schuman suffered a wrenched back.  Schuman is under a doctor's care this 
morning because of a nervous shock.  Mrs. Schu- 
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HENRY PLAUTZ FATALLY HURT IN FALL FROM DITCHED TRUCK

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mann said that her husband came home last night in a semi-daze.   "He 
couldn't even tell me just what happened", said Mrs. Schumann.

	Schuman is employed as driver of the Blatz Co. truck.  He left 
yesterday afternoon to deliver goods to concerns in the small towns east 
of Antigo.  He picked up Plautz and Mrs. Roberts before leaving Antigo, 
and was taking them for a ride while he made deliveries.

	Plautz was well known in Antigo.  He followed the upholstering 
business for a number of years and of late had his shop in the rear of 
his home on South Superior street.

	His wife died about ten years ago.  He is survived by three 
children, two boys, Charles and Chester (twins) age 12, and a daughter, 
Loraine, age 10, and a brother, Edward, who is married and lives on 
Irving street.  He was born in Sheboygan Falls.