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Garland, Tex., March 26 (Special). -- Paul Propes, 39, was killed instantly here Thursday afternoon when he was struck by a car driven by Earl Hall, former sheriff of Rockwall County, on the main highway, just inside of the city limits. Propes was hit when he ran onto the highway to get out of the way of a falling limb of a tree, which was being trimmed. The accident was termed unavoidable on the part of Mr. Hall.
source: Dallas Daily Times Herald - March 26, 1937, Sec. IV, p. 3, col. 5.