STOTHERS

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Marin Journal
Thursday, July 28, 1921
Page 1

Lad accidentally Kills His Brother

Little George Stothers, victim of a lamentable accident, died yesterday afternoon at the Emergency Hospital while his older brother, Albert, aged 14, knelt in grief beside the body and pleaded with Dr. R. G. Dufficy to stay the hand of death.

The two boys has been employed as caddies during the day at the Marin Golf and Country Club. Returning along Third street, they were swinging their golf clubs at stones along the road, when a backward swing of Albert’s club struck George back of the right ear, causing a fracture at the base of the brain.

Enrico Tognoli, proprietor of the North Shore Hotel, in front of whose place the accident occurred, carried the boy to the Emergency Hospital, followed by the heartbroken brother. The little fellow died a few moments after he was brought into the hospital.

Little George was 12 years old, and the son of Mrs. Rose Stothers, a widow, who resides in New England Villa. The body was removed to Coroner J. Ray Keaton’s office, where an autopsy was held, and later to the funeral parlors of the Mary Eden Undertaking Company on C street. The funeral will be held Saturday morning, with services at 9:30 in St. Raphael’s church. The obsequies will be attended by twenty of the club caddies, six of whom will act as pall bearers. Several members of the club also will attend the last rites of the little fellow who was well liked by the members. Mrs. Jonathan Crooks has extended the sympathy of the club to the sorrowing mother, Mrs. Rose Stothers, and the grief-stricken brother, Albert.