Candidate and Wife Killed in Auto Crash

Candidate and Wife Killed in Auto Crash

Allan Cole, Sangamon County Sheriff, Running for Illinois State Representative,
in Wreck Near Jacksonville.

One Worked on Paper Here

Three Others Injured in Head-On Collision at Construction Barrier During Heavy
Rainstorm

By Associated Press

Jacksonville, Ill., October 18. - Injured late today in an automobile collision
which caused the immediate death of his wife, Allan Cole, Democratic candidate
for State Representative in the Forty-fifth District and Sangamon County
Sheriff, died in a hospital tonight.

Also injured in the crash were Robert Sheridan, former resident of St. Paul, and
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Sheridan, who were en route from Los Angeles to
Detroit.

Mrs. Sheridan suffered internal injuries, and her son and husband fractured
jaws.

The accident occurred when one of the cars approached a construction barrier and
the car driven by Cole crashed into the Sheridan machine. A heavy rain obscured
vision and made the pavement slippery.

Cole, whose home is in Pleasant Plains, was on his way here to attend a
Democratic rally.

Once St. Louis Printer

Cole, who was 60 years old, had been a newspaper printer, writer and publisher
for many years, working at various times on the New Yor[k?] Herald, Washington
Star, the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times and, for the last 20 years, on the St. Louis
times.

Nine years ago he married Mollie Clayton of Steelville, Mo., in St. Louis, and
the ne[x]t year purchased the Pleasant Plains Argus. In 1933 he acquired the
New Berlin Bee.

Cole long had been prominent in the Masonic order and his wife in church circles
and the Eastern Star.