Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-12
KILLED AT NOON
Trolley Struck Wagon and Man Was Thrown on Track in
 Front of Fender
CAR CREW ARRESTED

/ Raphael DeMarco. aged 34 years. of 42 Canal street, a driver m the employ of J. D. Barbaro the stone contrac- tor of p Scovill street, was instant ly killed at 12:10 o'clock this noon by tie Norwood trolley extra in charge of Conductor Sylvester Hoyt and Motorman James Sullivan nearly op- posite the entrance to Sackett's livery stable on South Main street His neck was broken and he received other injuries, but the body was not mangled. It was removed to Bergins s morgue where Medical Examiner Crane inquired into the facts.
 DeA1arco drove down Grand street onto South Main and headed up the street towards his place of employ mcnt at a slow gait. The trolley hit the wagon and pitched it over towards the curbing. The force of the impact threw the driver off the seat and he fell back into the rear of the wagon. The horse got scared and plunged forward as far as Jefferson street. where DeMarco was thrown out on the tracks. and the car still being in motion, it hit him with suf- kill him instantly. Everybody on board the car and hundreds who were hurrying to dinner afoot crowd ed around, and in a few seconds after the accident the street was blocked from Grand street to Scovill street and it required the efforts of numbe of officers to clear the way. The men in charge of the trolley car were placed under arrest. The motor man is held under a $5,000 bond and the conductors bond is 5000
 Meanwhile the dead mans employ CT and q number of his relatives and friends, including half dozen wo- men, had collected about the body at the morgue. and wept bitterly over his sad fate. They called him by name. mentioned the names of his family in far off Italy, with a view, 1t would seem, to prompt him to speak. if such a thing were possible. But Raphael DeMarco was silent and his friends here or in the old world will hear his well known voice no more. He has wife and family in the old country and was a steady. in- dustrious fellow,
 William Moseley, driver for the Scovill Mfg Co was an eye witness of the accident and furnished to the medical examiner the information or which this story of the affair is based Deputy ..a Coroner Makepeace go down to business as. soon as the medi cal examiner had reported to him ant conducted an eXaminati tion of witness es in the office of Superintendent Beach of the police department Tn, motorman and conductor are held un der a charge of manslaughter pend ing finding of the deputy coroner Sullivan belongs in Naugatuck anC appears to be bright. clever fellow He started out as conductor anC about three weeks ago he was as signed to a motorman's position. H, maintains that the car was not trav cling fast and that the mixup wa something that it was impossible fo him to prevent. The conductor work at the Scovill Manufacturing com pany and is an extra trolley employe He served several years as a super numerary police officer and was re tired some time ago, having reachet the age limit. Superintendent Vale told a reporter of the Democrat tha he didn't see why the car should have been going at high speed. i such were the case. It brings em ployes of the Smith & Griggs' Manu featuring company into the center a noon. and as it was not scheduled t leave the center for Norwood and ha, reached Grand street at 12:10 1 would have to wait in Exchange plac about ten minutes The death of De Marco unnerved many who witnesse it and instead of continuing on thei way to dinner quite few returne, to their work without any dinner.