Miss Marguerite Thomas, 28, of Hollywood, California, was instantly killed about 10 o'clock Saturday night on the Manilla-Manning road about 2 miles east of Manilla when the Ford coupe in which she was riding hit the rear end of a Chevrolet parked along the road, her car turned over in the road several times and landed in the ditch. Miss Thomas' body was hanging out of the door, her foot caught in the emergency brake and her throat cut from ear to ear. She was enroute from Morrison, Illinois, where she had been visiting relatives, to her home in Hollywood.

Passing motorists removed her body from the car and summoned a physician and Coroner John Schnoor of Denison. The body was brought to the Schnoor and Koch funeral home where it was kept until Monday evening. Her two brothers, G.L. and Wayne Thomas of Morrison, Illinois, arrived in Denison Sunday and accompanied the remains back to Morrison.

An inquest was called by Coroner John Schnoor Monday morning. William Lusby of Winnepeg, Canada, testified that the lights had gone out on his car and that as he pulled on the side of the road and stopped he saw the lights of Miss Thomas' car coming behind him. He took a flash light from his car and tried to signal to her but she drove her car into the left fender of his Chevrolet and the force of the impact turned her car over three times.

Members of the coroner's jury, Mike Magner, Jack Flahive and Otto Vosgerau, found that she met her death accidentally and that Mr. Lusby was in no way responsible for the accident.

She is survived by her two brothers and her father H.J. Thomas of Morrison, Illinois.