The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-16
FLAGS MOURN FOR LINDSLEY.
rUE BODY MAY POSSIBLY COME
HERE FOR A PUBLIC FUNERAL.

naucst Into tho Autom obilo Accident
Begun ut nnington-Relatives IIur'
rying Thither-C 0mmissi0ne McAdoC
VIII Not Fill the Vacancy 1t Once
MANCHESTER. w., Aug. lS.-An inquest
vas begun to-day at Bennington, where
Harris Lindsey Of New York city and Miss
Evelyn p. Willing Of Chicago were killed
bn Monday by q passenger train on the
Rutland Railroad that struck Miss Vikings
automobile. States Attorney William r..
Daley presided. The testimony Of Jesse
Adan,son of New York city. who was driv-
No the 80 horsepower Mercedes car, was
AIKEN. He said that the automobile was
making about fifteen miles an hour up Q
teep grade and that he did not see the
rain until the front wheels OF the machine
vere across the first rail- The tender was
hen upon him. He put on all power and
he car launched forward, but was struc OK
shen nearly two-thirds across the track.
The machine made very little noise, and
70 states that he heard neither whistle nor
ell.
Miss Vikings sixteen-year-old cousin,
ambrose c. Cramer Of Chicago, the other
OCCUPANT the car corroborated the state
hents Of Adamson. The inquest will be
continued tomorrow.
Cramer and Adamson are now at the
boders' Home Hospital In Bennington.
he young man is only slightly hurt and
Adamson is able to be about. A letter
rom Cramers father forbidding the young
nan riding in automobiles was received
ere yesterday after the party had loft.
Mark Skinner Willing, Miss Evelyn Will
hgs brother and the only surviving men,
YER Of the family, was in British Columbia
n fishing trip when the accident o.
urred He has been communicated with
nd will probably get here Saturday or
unday. 1t is not likely that any arrange
hents for funeral services will be made
ntil he arrives.
The remains OF both victims will be
10 that they will be buried side by side
18th Miss Vikings Yather and mother
Sere In Dellwood Cemetery. but possibly
Gr. Lindsley's body will be taken to New
he interment in that event will be in the
smily vault at Nashville, Tenn:
Van sinderen Lindsey OF New York
{ bennington this morning. His mother
tn. Lindsey, who has been spending
he summer in White Sulphur Springs,
Va, is on her way here. Mr.. Linds-
BY is also survived by sister, Mrs. Ayers
Monmouth Beach, N. J.
Missioner MoAdoo Of New York is deeply
booked by the tragic death Of Deputy
commissioner Lindsey. He said to-day:
/ 1T is almost too terrible to believe. He
fas splendid mana splendid type of those
oung Southerners who have singularly
lcceeded in New York by virtue Of a COM
nation of the delightful characteristics
kgrity and chivairo,is sense Of honor.
IF. Lindsey was, altogether, the most
Rtural and unaffected man l ha We ever
nown. He was delightfully."- frank and
Agenuous, and had all the enthusiasm Of
Pyhood. There was nothing subtle rrane an
hou ghts CT convictions. Considering his
3ck Of experience when he became Com
Missioner, his progress was highly creditable.
|be soldierly instinct was strong In him,
9th by nature and training. and this made
BIN not only exact obedience from Others,
Gt inclined him to easy submission to his
Dficial superiors and to compliance with
fders with military promptness and pre-
)sion. His principal duties were those Of
kal Judge, and even his most bitter critics
iii, ! am sure, concede that he was de-
hloping steadily and progressively into
(astership of the position. II sometimes,
but rarely, differed with his judgment,
over doubted the purity of his motives,
Is sense OF justice or the honesty OF his
ttions."
About appointing a new Commissioner,
lr. McAdoo said:
I cannot give the matter any immediate
bnsderation. shall be slow about ma
Ing and appoint ment. and nothing will be
pne until after the frat OF September"
The flags on all the police stations and
Police Headquarters were at half mast
fsterday as well as the City Hall flag.
hief Inspector .Cortright issued a general
fder directing that they be kept at
biz mast for thirty days. First Deputy
Commissioner McAvoy. who Is In charge
bring Commissioner McAdoo's absence,
id that if Mr.. Lindsley's body passed
Trough this city the Police Department
Rould escort it.
Mrs. Lindsey, the dead mans mother,
Tho was in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.
kegraphed yesterday to Commissioner
(cAvoy asking rs Harris dead?' Her
fher son had notified her only that Harris
fas badly hurt.
Mr. MoAvoy wouldn't take the responsi-
utility Of answering the telegram. He sent
ppies Of 1t to Mr., Lindsley's brother-in-
Nv, DR.. Edwin S. Ayers Of 122 West Forty
ghth street and to Van Sinderen Lindsey,
arris Lindsleys brother, who had gone
4 Vermont