Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-06
KILLED IN NEW YORK
Former Watebury Woman Was
 Thrown From Automobile.

Mrs Mary J. Tumbridge, the wife or Major J W. Tumbridge, son of Captain William Tumbridge, proprie. tor of the Hotel St George, in Brook lyn, was thrown out of an automo- Ille and crushed to death by troI- ley car on the Brooklyn bridge. New York yesterday afternoon.
 Mrs Tumbridge was the daughter Of EdsOn A. Judd, of this city who has real estate offices on Center street. He was formerly in the dry goods business, selling out many years ago to the Curran brothers. The family originally came here from Wa tertown. The dead woman was born Tn Watertown and was about thirty two years of age. She was graduate or St Margaret's school and later a ried cT2b ,WuyiB ETAOIN SHRDL clerk in her fathers store. She was married to Major Tumbridge fourteen years ago and leaves besides her hus- band two children. Thesaccident han pened about as follows:
 Shortly before ? o'clock yesterday afternoon Captain Tumbrdge, his son and daughter-in-law started from the St George for an automobile ride in Manhattan.
 walter Owens was driving the ma chine. He is professional chauf- feur and has driven ears for years.
 The automobile was a speedy gaso- lene runabOut of the os-a-dos-type- four seated, two facing the front, two the rear. It had no tonneau, and the body, low set. declined little toward the rear. Those ill the back seat hadn't much to hold on to in case of violent jar. The Tumbridges had used the car often and never consid- cred that it wasn't safe.
 Captain Tumbridge sat in the front seat with the driver. Major Tum- bridge and his wife had the rear seats with their backs to those in front. There was n good deal of traffic in the roadway of the bridge and tEe automobile had to go at slow pace until within about q hundred yards of the Brooklyn tower It increased speed then and ran ahead sharply a bridge department truck.
 Owen ran the ear up to within few feet of the truck. Then, seeing chance to pass it by swerving to the left on the trolley track, he threw the wheel over. X Graham avenue car was sliling along toward Manhattan and was almost parallel with the au- tomObile when Owens let the machine out little and shot to the left As he whirled the automobile around ahead of the car Mrs Tumbride. eith- CT lost her balance in the rear sea, or being nervous, started to stand up. Her husband put his arm out to catch her as he saw her start to fall. but she pitched out of the seat and landed on the trolley track.
 The fender was up, as the bridge rules require. and the car hit Mrs Tumbridge as she lay crosswisc on the track. It knocked her ahead once or twice. then pulled her under the car and the wheels passed over her body.
 Captain Tumbridge. with his eyes on the truck and the driver. did not kn0w that his sons wife had been killed. The automobile had shot ahead fifty yards before Major Yum bridge could get his voice.
 Stop the machine" he said. May is gone. She's under the car"
 The police and the street car men got Mrs Tumbridge's body out from under the car and covered it with n fur robe.
 Captain Tumbridge and his son were terribly aeffcted by the accident. In Captain Murtha's office in the bridge station Major Tumbridge re- preached himself for not being able to save his wife from falling. He remember just how she fell out, but he thought she must have got nervous and started to stand up when the automobile swerved to the left. Owen. the driver. broke down and wept. Both Captain and Major Tumbridge assured him they held him blameless. The first thing they did when they recovered from the immediate shock was to get | Owens out of custody.