Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-18
AFFlANCED COUPLE KILLED
THEIR AUTO WAS STRUCK BY
TRAIN NEAR BENNINGTON.
Victims Wore Deputy Police Commits
sioner Harris Lindsey Of New York
and Miss Evelyn Willing. Gov.
SINNERS Great Granddaughter.

Harris p. Lindsey. New York deputy
police commissioner and society man.
and his fiancee, Miss Evelyn Pierre
pont Willing. daughter of the late Hem
ry j. Willing of Chicago. who was q
member of the firm OF Marshall Field
& Co. Of that city, were instantly kill
ed at Pixies crossing near Bennington,
Monday afternoon Aug. IA, In a colli-
sion between the automobile In. which
they were riding and train on the
branch division of the Rutland rail-
road. Miss vikings nephew Am
brose Cramer of Chicago, was slightly
injured. and the chauffeur. Jesse
Adamson Of New York. was badly
hurt. but will recover.
The locomotive and one car, running
backward TO meet the flyer from Bur-
lington at the Bennington station.
were thrown from the rails. the engine
being overturned and rolling dis
lance of 10 or 10 feet from the rails.
which We're torn up for nearly 100 feet.
Engineer William Sibley and Fireman
william Mangan jumped from the cab,
and were uninjured. while Is passen-
gers also escaped injury. The auto
mobile was smashed to pieces, and af-
forwards was destroyed by fire. II
was big touring machine. Mr.. Linds-
ley and Miss Willing occupied the
back seat of the car. The accident
occurred while the party were travel
ing up steep grade leading over a
crossing. There is curve near the
crossing and Adamson did not see the
train until II was upon them. The en-
gineer and fireman did not see the au-
tomobile until too late TO stop the
train. The locomotive tender struck
the rear seat of the automobile which
tpn hrn a hna foe I'M sta
was killed instantly and Miss Willing
lived but few minutes. The bodies
We're taken to Walbridge's undertaking
shop in Bennington. Young Cramer
and Adamson were removed to the
hospital at Bennington.
Miss Willing, with two aunts. the
Misses Skinner of Chicago, and Mr..
Lindsey were spending the month at
the Equinox house in Manchester. The
party had made a run to Williams
town, Mass, lunching at the Greylock
Inn on the return journey.
Miss Willing was the great grand
daughter of the late Gov. Richard
Skinner and the granddaughter of
Mark Skinner of Manchester. Her
mother, Mrs. Willing, gave the Mark
Skinner library to the town of Man.
chester. Mark Skinner Willing, of Chi
cago, brother of Miss Willing. is now
the only surviving member of the fam
lily. Miss Willing had a personal for
tune of 100000, and had travelled ex-
tensively in this country and Europe.
She was about rs years old, and Mr..
was So.
Mr. Lindsey was appointed third
deputy police commissioner in 1904. He
was a member Of the Strollers and
Princeton clubs of New York and the
club at Washington. He
graduated from Princeton in 1898 and
was lawyer in practice before being
appointed to the deputy commissioners
ship. Mr.. Lindsey and Miss Willing
were to have been married next week.
Engineer William Sibley and Fire.
man william Mangan of the Rutland
'airoad train that struck the automo-
bile, have been arrested ON the charge |
If manslaughter. Witnesses are be- |
ng subpoenaed and it is expected that |
here will be a hearing soon at Ben
lington before Judge Edward L. Bates !
~ order of the selectmen.