Others who escaped the house with Coolidge were Marshall M. Jeanes '57, of Eliot House and Devon, Pa., David S. Lee '56, of Winthrop House and Westwood, Mass., and Peter deL. Swords '57, of Eliot House and North Castle, N.Y.
"It was horrible having to leave Herrick there alone. I went out through the window and around the cottage smashing all the windows with a wastepaper basket and hollering 'fire'," Coolidge continued. "But I couldn't get back." He was praised by Quebec provincial police for his rescue attempts.
Accident in Indiana
Two weeks earlier, on Dec. 21, North and Boyden were killed instantly near Goshen, Ind., when the car in which they were riding collided unavoidably with two trucks on the brow of a New York Central overpass. John Fell Stevenson '58, of Leverett House and Libertyville, III., driver of the car, suffered severe face cuts and a broken right kneecap. Doctors said yesterday at Chicago's Passavant Hospital, where Stevenson is confined in a wheelchair, that his progress was "fine." His return to Cambridge is as yet indefinite.
Gilligan Returns Saturday
James F. Gilligan '57, of Eliot House and Nebraska City, Neb., was riding in the back seat of the Stevenson vehicle. He suffered a brain concussion and a double fracture in his left arm. He expects to return on Saturday.
James Gill, driver of the truck which was on the left side of the road, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
Both apparent suicides died by carbon monoxide poisoning. Smith was visiting relatives at Radnor when he was found in a garage on Christmas Eve, dead from the fumes of the family's automobile. Radnor Police Surgeon Dr. A. J. Pitone gave a verdict of suicide and burial was on Dec. 28, in Whitemarsh, Pa. Smith lived near Amherst, Mass., with his father, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Massachusetts. He was an editor of the CRIMSON.
Woodward was found dead in an automobile in an isolated area near Los Alamos. Coroner's jury determined the cause of death as self-inflicted carbon monoxide poisoning after friends testified he often spoke of the "thin line between life and death."