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Musson - Joan


Source:  Tri-County News, Waveland, IN Aug 28, 1958

Two Bloomingdale girls, Joan MUSSON, age 17 and Judy EVANS, 15, were seriously injured shortly after 8 o'clock Sunday evening when the car in which they were riding near the Family Drive-In Theatre north of Rockville was struck by another vehicle. A man in the other car, Toney R. BOLDEN, 30 of Tullahoma, Tenn was reported Wed. morning to have died from injuries he received in the crash. Bolden's throat was severly cut when he was thrown into the windshield of the car in which he was riding as a passenger, with Albert T. Cobb, 35 of Calumet City, Ill.

The two Bloomingdale girls had been swimming at the pool in Beechwood Park and were enroute home at the time of the accident.

Besides the two men in the Illinois car were Cobb's wife, Edith, 35 and their 6-year-old son, Danny. Mrs. Cobb sustained a possible brain concussion and suffered shock. Danny had cuts on his face. Mr. Cobb had facial lacerations, a fractured right arm and chest injuries. Miss Musson suffered a broken jaw, chest bruises and sprains and cuts on her arms/legs. Miss Evans has a broken hip, lacerations of the face, bruises and sprains. The accident was investigated by State Troopers Robert Wiot and Richard Finney.
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