Hirschler, D. R. (d. 1925)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1925 May 26 p. 1

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D. R. Hirschler of L. A. Killed in Auto Crash ______

The following clipping from the May 16 issue of the Los Angeles Examiner tells of the death of D. R. Hischler [sic] of Los Angeles, formerly of Halstead, Kan. Mr. Hirschler, as also the brother mentioned in the article, came to Kansas about 1875 with his father, Christian Hirschler. They lived north of Halstead, west of the Dan Krehbiel farm, where the town of Christian then stood.

Pasadena, May 16 — Death of D. R. Hirschler was due to an error of judgment upon the part of his brother, J. P. Hirschler, in the verdict of a coroner’s jury at the inquest here today. Mr. Hirschler died after the auto of his brother, with whom he was riding, had been struck by a South Pasadena P. E. car near the Cawston Ostrich Farm and almost in front of the victim’s home.

In broken voice J. P. Hirschler, 69 years old, narrated at the inquest, at Ives & Warren’s here, how he had seen what he took to be a man waiting for the street car, standing beside the track. Thinking the car would therefore stop, he drove directly in front of the oncomming [sic] coach.

But railroad men testified that it was merely deceptive shadows from the street lights which seemed to cast the shadow of a man beside the track. The motorman, behind his headlight, was not deceived by these shadows, and having a clear track was driving along at a rate he estimates at from 12 to 15 miles an hour.

Funeral services for D. R. Hirschler, long a Pasadena merchant, are to be held at the chapel of Ives & Warren, Monday at 2 p.m.