The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-13
Fairfield County News.
Automobile Accidents.

Near the Danbury Fair grounds, Sat | urday, a big automobile owned and driven by George Brown of New Ca raan was passing another car but l was driven too near the edge of the road and the driver found that the car was in danger of overturning There was a sharp declivity at the l side of the road and many large 1 stones. MT. -iBrown feared that if the | car overturned many or all with him
 would be seriously hurt, if not killed | so he took a desperate chance and i turned the car directly into the rocks ] that bordered the road. The machine | tore over the stones and came to 1 stop about twenty feet from the road ] 1 One wheel was smashed and the run
 ming gear badly broken. All the oc-
 cupants of the car were pitched out but they fell upon soft ground and | escaped with slight hurts.
 The automobile of Howard Water bury, of Stamford, destroyed by fire between Bethel and Bedding, Fri day. MT. Waterbury left the car
 there the night previous when he met with slight accident It was a wreck when he returned, about every thing but the motor having been burn | ed. The cause of the fire is not known. l A large automobile, belonging to | William c. Smith. of Bell Island, and a Buick automobile owned by W. A. | Rogers, of Wilton. and driven by Mrs Rogers, participated in a head-on col | lision, Sunday afternoon on the Will | ton road and the smash-up would have resulted seriously but for the fact that both machines were moving | slowly. MT. Smiths head was sent back through glass and he was cut slightly about the face. Both ma- chimes were badly smashed, the Buick getting little the worst of it. Mrs. | Rogers was driving the Buick, and turned to the side of the road, to aI- low the other car to pass. She did
 not notice large stone which was hidden by the weeds, and her ma chine struck the rock which threw it out directly in front of MT. Smiths
 machine.
 Much Damage Done.
 At the Ryder and Howard meat mar ket in South Norwalk early Thursday morning, a safe was blown open by i burglars. The safe was reduced to complete wreck, the whole front being torn out and it's sides bent and the | filament dislodged. The flying iron | rollers of the safe and other pieces partially wrecked the market. Three windows were srna Tn this safe old coins and books. The cracksmen | did not even get the pennies or old
 coins. In fact they did not return after they wrecked the safe. They were frightened off.
 Criminally Negligent.
 l The finding of Coroner Wilson as 1 the result of his inquest into the cir
 cumstances of the death of Harry K Smart, a motorman on the Danbury & Bethel street railway, who was cleo f trocuted on the night of September 23
 while handling a span wire that had fallen across a high tension wire of
 the Danbury & Bethel Gas & Electric
 Light company, is that the lighting l company was criminally negligent in
 the manner of stringing and maintain
 ing it's wires at the point where the accident occurrerd. The car which
 he was running became stalled through
 the breaking of the trolley wire and l the span wires supporting the trolley
 wires. He left the car and picked up
 the end of a span wire, which was
 the pavement, for the purpose of
 moving it out of the path of traffic Attendance Over 61,00O.
 | A total of 61,414 people attended the l Danbury Fair last week, figures that
 have been exceeded but once since the
 Fair was established. forty-one years
 ago. The attendance of 67,s0s in 1907 1 still stands as the record.
 | Jar Discharged Gun.
 | Raymond Van Name, the 16-year-
 old son of MT. Joseph Van Name of
 New Canaan, was shot and fatally
 wounded, Saturday, by the accidental
 discharge of a shotgun which he car
 ried. He died at the Stamford Hos-
 pital. The boy. in company with two
 chums, Gilbert Bliss and Walter Smith l started out in quest of hickory nuts Raymond carried his gun. He had a ! hunters license. Raymond perched | himself upon rail fence. The other
 lads climbed tree and began shaking
 down the walnuts. Raymond's eye
 was on the alert for game and he had
 the gun cooked. The report of the
 gun caused the boys in the tree to
 glance down, and they saw Raymond
 fall to the ground. One barrel of the
 gun had emptied the shell of No. 4
 shot into his body, at the end of the
 breast bone, puncturing his lungs and
 tearing a gaping hole in his breast. His clothing was scorched by close
 contact with the blast and part of it
 was driven into the wound. He con- 1 tinued conscious for about an hour,
 and gave his mother a very coherent
 version of the accident, stating that
 ke had slipped from the fence and that
 the jar had discharged the gun.