Connecticut western news., 1910-10-13
Louis Holmes, East Canaan, Found Unconscious by the Roadside
 Died Monday Night
SAID HE WAS HIT
 BY AN AUTOMOBILE
No One Knows Who Hit Him-May Have Fallen From Load of Shingles He Was Driving and Been Run Over By His Own Wagon, But There is an Element of Doubt Even in This.

Element of Doubt Even in This.
 While George Dedrick, East Canaan. was passing along the highway, between Canaan and East Canaan, Monday afternoon, he saw the body of 8 man lying in the roadway, to all appearances dead. He examined him, found his heart yet beating and, after working over him brought the man too, so that he was able to give his name as Louis Holmes and said that he worked on the Minnie Briggs farm, near East Canaan. He complained of injury to his back, but was unable to make any explanation as to how he had been injured.
 He was removed to the Briggs farm and Doctors Lee and Camp, of Canaan, were called to attend him. They found him suffering greatly from shock. He told them that an automobile hit him. He had been driving home from Canaan with load of shingles. His horse was found some distance from where he lay in the road, but the horse was uninjured and all the shingles but one bunch were on the wagon.
 What autoist is responsible for the accident does not as yet appear, if there is any. Homes was unable to move any portion of his body Whether he was p lralyzed by the shock was uncertain. though indications pointed that way. While conscious when the doctors ar rived, he was unable to give any definite information regarding his accident. He was 47 years of age.
 Holmes called on several merchants in North Canaan that morning, and taose with whom he had business deal ings say he was not himself. It is alleged here that just before starting for home he was helped on to his wagon by acquaintances.
 Those who have investigated the case so far, as investigation is at present pos sible, have reached tho belief that he fell from his wagon and that the cuts made on his body were due to the feet of the horse and the passing of one of the wagon wheels over his abdomen, across which there was bad gash. .
 No evidence has yet been adduced to prove that an automobile hit him. In deed, it is hard to conceive of such an interpretation to the sad affair, for to have caused his fall from the load under those conditions the auto would have hit the wagon, which must have shown some indications of such collision. A bunch of shingles and keg of horseshes being found in the road near where Holmes lay would indicate that these fell from the load when he did.
 The most plausible theory thus far advanced is that one of the shingle punches was insecure upon which he sat, and disIodged, throwing him under the forward part of the wagon, the wheels of which ran over him with >the heavy load, causing the injuries from which he died about 7 o'clock the same night. The horse was found further along by the roadside.
 MT Holmes leaves wife, three sons and one daughter, father, mother and sister in Norway, a sister, Mrs Ellen Hogan, iii Brooklyn, a brother, Emil Homes in Dover Plains. He was re- garded as hard working, honest, genial man and good neighbor, who will be greatly missed by 8 host of friends. He had rented the farm of Miss M E. Briggs for the past two years. The funeral will be held to-day, Thursday.