Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-22
INJURIES PROVED FATAL
r. D. WILLIAMS KILLED BY A FALL
IN HIS SHOP.
Found Tuesday Afternoon In an Un.
conscious Condition With a Frao.
tured SkuII-Supposed to Have Been
Stricken with ApopIexy.

tured SkuII-Supposed to Have Been
Stricken with ApopIexy.
Fremont ID. Williams, AZ. the well
known Williams street carriage maxi
er, was found Tuesday afternoon in an
unconscious condition lying beside the
boiler in his shop. The right side of
his face and his right arm were badly
blistered and there was a large hole N
the back of his skull. He was taken to-
Mrs. Bushnell's boarding house on FL
liot street where he died without re-
gaining consciousness shortly after
o'clock. Just how the accident occur
red viii never be known. but it is sup
posed that Mr.. Williams was stricken
with apoplexy while sitting beside the
boiler and fell through the opening
around the boiler into the basement
below. striking his head on the corner
of one of the foundation stones.
Williams was last seen alive by Will
liam Roberts. carriage painter en-
ployed at the shop. When he returned
to work at / o'clock Williams was talk
ing with woman. He was in the
habit of going to dinner about 2 and
shop while he was gone. On Tuesday
afternoon, however, he did not notify
Roberts of his departure at the usual
time so the latter came down from the
paint shop to the ground floor of the
factory about to see If his employer
had gone out. While getting a drink Of
water at the head of the stairs lead
ing to the boiler room in the basement
Roberts heard groan and the sound
of heavy breathing. Fastening down
to the basement he found Williams
lying face. down beside the boiler He
had bled profusely from the wound In
the back of his head and showed no
signs of consciousness. Roberts tele-
phoned at once for medical assistance,
and DR. Lynch arrived about 3.15. He
and Roberts carried the injured man
upstairs and he was taken at once to
his room at Mrs. Bushnell's. His death
occurred an hour later.
The boiler in the Williams shop is
an upright model with the top pro-
jecting through the ground floor.
There is an open space about 2la feet
wide around it, and it was through this
that Williams is supposed to have fall
len. He was known to have done a
good deal of writing while sitting near
the top of the boiler, and writing ma
terials were found there Tuesday af-
ternoon. 1t Is the theory of Roberts,
the painter, that Williams was stricken
with faintness and fell over against the
boiler burning his face and arm, and
then fell through the opening into the
basement, striking on his head. Blist-
cred skin was found on the top of the
boiler, tending to substantiate th,z-
theory, t.,50S~ r.
Mr. Williaa~s IS born in Canaars,
N H., and came to Brattleboro about
20 years ago. He established his car
riage business Is years ago, and for the
past several years had devoted most OF
his time to the manufacture of type
Of low delivery wagon, which he orig
mated, and to the construction of gyp-
sey wagons. He had lived at Mrs.
Bushnells for II years. He is survived
by an aged father, Abraham L. Will
lians of Enfield. N. H, and one sis
ter, Mrs. D. T. Cowen of Old Hadley,
Mass. His father and brother-in-law
came to Brattleboro Wednesday. The
body will be taken to Enfield, N. H,
tomorrow for burial.