The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-20
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Fairfield County News.
Auto Accidents,

k While MT. and Mrs. Frederick Part rick, of Wilton, were riding in their auto in Danbury on Thursday evening the car became disabled, and Mrs. Partrick's brother William Raymond, of Danbury, offered to tow them home cured and all went we'll until near Branchville station, when Mrs. Part rick stepped on the running board, to see if the rope was secure. Just at this moment the leading machine started forward with a jerk and Mrs Patrick was thrown headforemost on a pile of stones. A physician found a fracture of the skull.
 Saturday afternoon, Frank A. Will lis. of Norwalk, was driving his horse up the Winnipauk road, when an au- tomobile belonging to George Double day, a New York man, whose country home is at Ridgefield, struck the ve- hicle and he was thrown from the wagon to the roadway. He was ren- dered unconscious. Mrs. Doubleday, who was in the machine at the time, states that the driver was at fault. She gave him a lecture and is willing to settle for all damages. His excuse for the accident was that he had been out all night and that he was sound asleep at the time they ran into the wagon. The auto was somewhat dam aged. and the wagon was wrecked. MT. Willis will probably recover.
 In New Locality.
 A rattlesnake was killed last week at the barn of the Amy place in Westport. The repetile had 14 rattlers and was very large snake.
 Stamford Tax Rates.
 The tax rate of the city of Stamford is higher than last year. The rate in the first district is 12.27 mills in the second 9.7 mills; in the third 6.6 mills. This is an increase in the respective districts. of 1.17, 1.S6 and 163 mills.
 Fell from Scaffold.
 Gioacchino Talaskio of Norwalk, a carpenter, fell from a scaffold, two stories high Friday, landing on his back on a fence, upon which he was impaled. MT. Talaskio as a result of the fall, is suffering from a broken shoulder blade and three fractured ribs, while there may be internal in- juries which may result fatally. Unclaimed Deposits.
 S5. at the Citizens Savings bank of stamford, Sally H. Ferris, $64 6S: Will liam H. Waring s277.74; Horace C.. Nichols s42.61; Sarah Sullivan s14O.4S. 8 For Prodigal Son.
 Thomas Welsh of Darien, who drop ped dead in a hayfield, recently, left a will in which he bequeathed $5 to his son, William, and the remainder of his estate to his daughter Margar- ct, who is to continue to care for the testa:tor's widow and for the four children of his son William. In the will it is stated that the smallness of this legacy is explained by Will Hams failure to care for his family. William Welsh, the son who has been practically disinherited, left town some time ago, and it is said that his relatives are not aware of his pres ent whereabouts.
 Drops Dead in Westport. Hopping about on hands and feet, his body absolutely nude, and terribly sunburnt, cut and bruised, an un- known man, apparently, demented, toppled over and died Thursday in the rear of Robert H. Coley's barn, in Westport, just after having been | discovered by an employe of MT. Co., ley. It is believed that death was due to exhaustion and heat. He was iden- tified later as James F. Andrews of Meriden His sister said that before her brother left Meriden he was em- ployed as a lineman. He did not say where he was going and she thinks, as do the authorities that he was af- fecte6 by the heat and in his crazed | condition he probably wandered aim | lessly about for number of days and , finally becoming weak from hunger and exposure, he collapsed.