“ATTACK ON TORONTO DRIVER IS FATAL,” Montreal Star. October 24, 1921. Page 9. ---- Harry Stron Dies of Wounds Following Assault-Robbery Motive ---- TORONTO, Oct. 24 - A Toronto! taxi driver, Harry Stron, aged about 24 years, died yesterday morning in the hospital as a result of a murderous attack upon him on Saturday night by parties still unknown, who also robbed their victim of a considerable sum of money.
With his skull fractured and bleeding from several wounds, Stron managed to drag himself nearly half a mile, aided by a light in a window, to get help but was so far gone when he arrived that he could not tell what had happened. Near the pool of blood where he had been left in a dying condition, detectives found a bloodstained railway spike.
Investigations by the police revealed that Stron had been engaged at his regular stand about 6:15 on Saturday evening to drive a party out Yonge street but no description of the parties who entered the car could be obtained.
The theory of the police is that when Stron arrived at Finch's Corners, which is a couple of miles northwest of the city, one of the occupants dealt the driver a blow from the back seat. Stron appears to have halted his machine and tried to defend himself. Bloode was found on the windshield, on the seat and the floor of the car, also on the front bumper. He had been dragged about ten yards from the car before the struggle ended, judging by the presence of a pool of blood that distance from the car. Stron is said to have been a quiet, reserved man.
