Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-29

1t was the test machine owned by
| the American Locomotive company OF
Providence that was in collision with
| the touring car occupied by Prof.
| William Kent Shepard of Yale and
| others, in the road near Cross Mills,
! Sunday morning. The Providence
auto is a car with a rough wooden
| frame, used solely for the purpose of
/ testing new engines, was practically
1 uninjured but the other machine was
badly damaged. Professor Shepard's
skull was fractured near the base. G..
c. Mullen was the driver of the test
1 ing machine, and he was accompanied
| by Edwin Nield also employed by the
automobile company Mr.. Mullen
makes this statement:
I'VE were going along the road and
caught up with the other machine.
sounded the horn several times to no.
| tify the occupants of the other auto
that we wanted to pass IND after a
| while they heard US and turned out to
their own right hand side of the road
to let us pass.
Il turned the wheels Of my car out
to my left and started to pass. / don't
know just how it was the accident
/ happened. Possibly our car struck a
stone in the road, and the machine
Slowed slightly toward the New Ha-
| ven machine. 1t might have been that
|
slowed throwing the front hub of their
machine against the rear wheel of our
car. Neither of the two cars was
| going at an extreme rate of speed, not
more than 20 or 25 miles an hour at
| the highest
When the wheels came together the
4 impact sent the other machine off side
| wise, the chauffeur momentarily losing
control and the touring car slid off
to the side of the narrow road into the
stone wall running alongside, when the
car overturned, throwing all of the
men in the machine out.
Il stopped our. machine. We found
that one of the men, DIR. Shepard of
Yale, was badly hurt. 1 took him
to Westerly in the testing machine
and took him to the doctors Office
tured skull. None of the others in the
car was hurt to any extent and neither
Nield nor myself at all"
In the room where she was born
nearly eighty years ago, Desire A,
daughter of the late Benejah Gavitt,
and wife of Deacon Edward NJ. Dunn,
died at her home in the Haversham
section Of Westerly Sunday afternoon.
She was married ffty-nine years ago
last December, and with her husband,
who is deacon of the church, was
charter member Of Calvary Baptist
church. Mrs. Dunn was active in
church work and interested in the
Womans Christian Temperance union.
She was the mother of nine children,
including three sons, Edwin B., who
resides at the homestead, Herbert O.,
commander in the United States ma
w, and Frederick Dunn of New York.
Supt. Judson T. Cousins of the Nor
witch G. Westerly Street Railway Co.,
and a member of the construction firm
of Mccartney Brothers, of Boston, was
in Westerly Monday, making exami-.
nation of the overhead construction Of
the Pawcatuck Valley street railway.
A new and larger feed wire is to take
the place of the one now in use be-
tween Broad street and Watch Hill,
on the Pawcatuck Valley line the
work to begin as soon as possible.
There is too much drop, or loss, in
the present feed wire, and a change
has become necessary. The new feed
wire Will be over an inch in diameter,
making more efficient service posi-
BILE.
Patrick Brady, at a lonely spot in
lower Stillman avenue, was assaulted
and robbed during the first hour of
Sunday morning. He was held up by
two men and ordered to hand over
whatever cash he had in his possess
sion. This he declined to do and he
was knocked down, kicked and drag
ged around the road. His trousers
were torn from him and taken away
and the rest -Of his clothing showed
evidence of rough handling. There
was over ten dollars in the pockets of
his trousers. and, of course, this cash
was taken. Brady came into the viii
10 .f f,,,I
to Deputy Sheriff Casey, giving good
description of his assailants. The off,
Ger was satisfied that the men who
beat and robbed Brady We're Michael
Cumminsky and John L. Sullivan. He
soon had Cumminsky under arrest,
but Sullivan could not be located
On a charge of assault from the
person Cumminsky was arraigned be-
fore Judge Alberti r. Stillman of the
Stonington- Conn, court Monday
morning, and found probably guilty,
and held for trial before the superior
court for New London county. Bonds
were fixed at $500, which were fur
nished by the father of the accused.
In front of the c. w. Willard store
in High street, just where there was
a collision last week between a Paw
catuck Valley street car and the Hoxie
automobile, there was another mixup
Monday afternoon. An automobile
owned by E. H. Buffum, proprietor of
the Weekapaug Inn, Fas coming from
the railway station with Mr. and Mrs
Calhoun of Cornwall, Conn.,, with two
children and maid A trolley car of
the Pawcatuck Valley road was going
up the street. When at the Willard
store, the driver of the automobile
made an attempt to swing to the left
off the tracks, but the auto skidded
along the rail and collided with the
moving trolley car.
The off hind wheel of the auto and
the mud guard were smashed and the
automobile careened to one side The
occupants were thrown forward with
great force. Mrs. Calhoun was Sc
verely injured and her four years old
son was cut in the mouth and one tooth
was broken. The others were not in
jured.
Mrs. Calhoun was assisted into DIR.
Scanlon's Office where she received
attention. She has large lump over
the right eye, and it is feared the blow
was sufficient to cause a fracture of
the skull. Mr.. Buffum sent another au-
tomobile for the party and they were,
taken to Weekapaug. where the Call
houn family had arranged to spend the
summer.
Mr.. Calhoun and family arrived on