Desert Sun, Volume XXXIII, Number 83, 19 November 1959 — Inquest Held Unlikely in Curtice Kill Canadian Crown Attorney Maintains Shooting 'Accident' [ARTICLE]

Inquest Held Unlikely in Curtice Kill Canadian Crown Attorney Maintains Shooting 'Accident'

FLINT, Mich. (UPD-A Canadian crown attorney said today "I don't think” there will be an inquest into the fatal shooting of a retired General Motors vice president by fomer GM President Harlow H. Curtice in a duck hunting accident. S. A. K. Logan, crown attorney for Lambton County, Ontario, said at Sarnia that there appeared to be no doubt the shooting was an accident and that he didn't believe an inquest would be necessary. BUT HE SAID HE planned to consult with provincial police later today before making a final decision. Curtice, meanwhile, remained secluded at his home here, grieving quietly but deeply over the death of “my very dear friend.” Former GM Vice President Harry W. Anderson was struck by the charge from Curtice's gun Wednesday when he stood up in a duck blind and stumbled just as Curtice pulled the trigger. THE BLAST TORE away the upper right portion of Anderson’s head. lie lost consciousness immediately and died about an hour later while Curtice and other hunting companions carried him toward help on the Canadian mainland. Curtice, Anderson, George KenI nedy and Arthur Brown, a Detroit | troit manufacturer's representa- : tive, had been hunting together at an exclusive 7,000 acre preserve owned by Kennedy's KelseyHayes Wheel Co. of Detroit, on St. Anne Island. The island is at the juncture of the St. Clair River and Lake St. Clair which form the international boundary between Michigan and Ontario. IT TOOK THE PARTY about an hour to get from the duck blind to the hunting lodge by truck and boat, a distance of about four miles. When they arrived on the Canadian mainland with Anderson's body. Curtice talked to Canadian provincial police for about an hour and then rushed to the American side of the international waters and drove to Anderson's home at Ann Arbor, Mich., about 90 miles away. “1 am deeply grieved," Curtice said on arriving at the Anderson home to console the widow of his friend. “Harry Anderson was my very dear friend for many years.”