Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-10
GIRL HIT BY AUTO
Chauffeur For Warren [. Ball
 geld Under s2,ooO Bonds.

Miss Clara Hoyt, daughter of John Hoyt of 1426 North Main street. who was struck by Warren l.. Halls auto mobile on North Main street about o'clock yesterday afternoon, is still in a critical condition. During the night there was DO perceptible change but still there is hope that the young woman will recover. In the city court this morning the bond of Wal ter Henry, the young man who was driving the machine when the acci- dent occurred, was reduced from s5,- GOO to s2,000. Attorney James M. l Lynch asked to have the bond re- duced, doing so more out of favor to the young man than anything else as the prisoner had no counsel on hand.
 Henry was driving the car down North Main street and was just pass ] ing the Waterbury club when he ran down Miss Hoyt. She was with Miss Minnie Bristol and the young girls started to cross the street. Miss Bris- tol got over all right but the auto- mobile, Stevens-Duryea, crashed into Miss Hoyt, who was dragged sew eral feet before the machine was brought to halt.
 The big lamp on the car hit Miss ! Hoyt with much force, and she was knocked down, the front wheel pass I ed over her body and the car step | caught in her clothing, dragged her along for a number of feet. In the
 machine was Miss Beatrice Hall. | daughter of Warren Hall, and, Miss
 Helen Bassett. The injured girl,
 covered, with blood, was picked up
 and carried in on the lawn in front ! of Dr Barbour's office. If the acci-
 dent had happened in a barbarous i country the young woman could not
 have received any more shameful treatment than was accorded her the
 half hour after the collision. She was left on the lawn for more than thirty
 minutes and no one was mindful
 enough or at least did not have brains enough to take the young girl into the office of the doctors nearby, ai- though there are half dozen within
 a stones throw of where the accident occurred.
 dltOl lhC oltiuCnt happened someone was thoughtful
 enough to send for the ambulance and
 when it arrived the girl was taken to
 the hospital. Dr Barbour was the
 first to reach the injured girl and
 found that couple of ribs were
 broken, her body badly injured and.
 the base of her skull fractured. He
 deemed if best to have her removed
 to the hospital.
 Henry wished to drive the car to
 the hospital but Detectives Keegan
 and Colesanto informed the young
 man the drive he would take would
 be to the station. Henry then took ; his seat at the wheel of the automo- bile and drove to the station. The
 bonds were immediately placed at
 S5,000 which the prisoner was un-
 able to procure, so he remained in the station over night.
 Henry was formerly the chauffeur for Dr Thomas Bland but for some , time has been driving w. L. Hall s , car. Yesterday 1t IS said that his
 car was going much faster than the
 speed limit for the city allows. The chauffeur says that he was going less
 than fifteen miles an hour aAd that , when he saw the girls crossing he put , on the brakes. When Miss Bristol } crossed all right he threw them of : again, thinking that Miss Hoyt was going to wait for him to get by. , When he saw that she was going to
 cross he tried to swerye the car to } one side but the lamp of the machine
 struck her. In the city court dock | Henry, who Is small chap though he is twenty-two years of age. smoked , cigarettes and took things in a very nonchalent manner. Even while , court was on he held cigarette in i his fingers