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Death of Harry Kenney, 1936
from the New Jersey Mirror 10 Jun 1936 Harry Kenney, 14, of Point Pleasant, was killed on Route 38, near Masonville early Saturday morning, when a car struck his bicycle. He left Point Pleasant at 7 P. M. Friday, with Robert Hodson, 16, of West Point Pleasant. They were both riding bicycles and were on their way to visit Harry''s grandmother in Camden. They were riding alongside each other with Kenny on the cement part of the highway and Hodson on the shoulder of the road. The only lights they had on their wheels was a flashlight which Hodson held in his hand and would light each time a car approached, the police said. The car which struck the boy was driven by Russell Carr, of 2024 South Seventh street, Camden. He took him to the Burlington County Hospital, where the lad was pronounced dead. Carr told Coroner George Whomsley, of Burlington, that he did not see the boys on the bicycles until after the accident. The Hodson boy, who was not injured, said that he flashed the