Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1903-02-19

barn upon it's downward trip. Alfred
Sharp, foreman of the car shops.
jumped it. He took the place of Mr..
Burch at the controller as he fire.
quently does, for the purpose of test
ing the car in operation He made
the run to Fairton and found the car
working in good shape. Motorman
Burch was with him on the front of
the car. Both agree as to the details.
After picking up DR.. Wainwright,
Sharp began to build up the speed of
the car, but did not throw all the
power on as he was look ing for a stop
at the Presbyterian Church. There
was nobody upon that corner and he
kept the car moving and it was slid
ing along at about half speed. Sud-
denly, both Burch and Sharp say, the
figures OF two women stepped from
the darkness on the track right in the
glare of the headlight. Strange to
them the women seemed to be hurry
ing directly toward them. Sharp
threw on the powerful friction brake
and reversed his controller. The car
stopped within half it's length, but
one of the women was struck. The
other jumped from the track. Both
Burch and Sharp agree that they were
more than a hundred feet from the
Presbyterian Church stopping point.
When they got off the car they
found, with the others, the condition
of the woman.
DIR. Wainwright, who had just got
on the car, was still standing. The
car stopped SO suddenly, he says, that
he was thrown into the door ahead of
him, and the car came to full stop
within half it's length.
Late in the evening, Mr. Noble and
his son, who were in Cedarville, at
the time of the fearful accident, came
to Fairton. Mr.. Noble was greatly
overcome when he was shown in the
presence of his dead wife.
Some time after that Cedarville
undertaken came to Fairton and re-
moved the body to the bereaved
home. DR.. Wainwright accompanied
the body, and with the undertaken,
made very careful Investigation.
The dress of the woman showed she
had been dragged over the ground
The hat which she had worn was
crumpled, and her clothing was con-
siderably torn.
The examination showed that the
actual cause of death was due to
horrible injury about the thigh. alb
domen and bowels. The left leg was
almost completely severed from the
body at the thigh. The indications
were that the body had been dealt
powerful blow which had caused it to
be crushed. The abdomen was in
jured and the bowels protruded. This
was the injury that caused death.
There was slight scratch under the
chin, and the right leg was broken
just above the ankle The left leg
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was cash upon the left ear.
A "Pioneer" reporter was in Fair
ton before ten O'Clock, and a minute
examination was made along the line
of track where the accident occurred.
AT distance of one hundred and
twenty-five feet below the Presby-
terian Church corner, the ground
showed plainly where the woman had
been struck. For twenty one feet,
just exactly one-half the length of
the car, the ground alongside the rail
was cleanly swept as with broom,
showing where the woman had been
dragged. The spot of blood still re-
mained in the roadway showing where
the body had lain after the car
stopped. A hat pin of the woman was
found fastened to-. the plank by the
rail where the woman was struck.
General Manager Hires of the Trac-
tion Company left Bridgeton upon the
first car after the accident and made
thorough examination of the case, re.
turning home at midnight.
Sunday morning County Physi-
cian Diament visited the Noble house
at Cedarville and made an examina-
tion of the body. He afterward or
dered an inquest and Coroner Samuel
M. Hall took charge of the case. With
Constable Lorenzo D. Woodruff, the
Coroner was engaged upon the case
pretty nearly all day, and the inquest
will be held at the Court House Thurs
day morning. The jury will be en-
panelled to-day, and the body buried
this afternoon. The funeral services
will be held tomorrow.
Mrs. Noble was daughter of the
late Michael McGuiggan and was
thirty six years of age. She has had
unfortunate mental trouble, and on