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Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 at 05:02:00 :

Marin Journal
Thursday, July 12, 1923
Page 1

One Killed When Car Backs Off Road

William Mark, a boilermaker at the Tiburon shops of the Northwestern Pacific, was instantly killed, and Thomas Bradley, a fellow workman, was injured early Sunday morning when a machine in which the two men were riding went over an embankment near Hilarita Station.

Mark had recently purchased the machine and was learning to drive. He had climbed a grade and on being confronted by a “no thoroughfare” sign at the top, started to back. Apparently unable to handle the car, he backed over the grade. The machine turned over twice, throwing Mark out. Bradley, discovering that his companion was unconscious, succeeded in starting the car and drove to a nearby ranch house, from which he telephoned to Coroner J. Ray Keaton, who took charge of the body.

Mark was 32 years of age and unmarried. He leaves a crippled father in Austria whom he was supporting. A cousin, John Mark, is employed at Tiburon also by the Northwestern Pacific. Mark came here from Tracy. An inquest will be held this week by Coroner Keaton.