The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-15
AUTO MARKERS
 MAKE TROUBLE
State Policeman Lays Trap in Bridgeport-Echo of Fatal
 Accident Heard

An echo of the fatal auto crash in
 which Mrs. Nelson Shaw of this city
 lost her life when he auto of wh,ch she was an occupant was hit by a
 trolley car at Oronoque about three weeks ago. was heard in Hartford yesterday. when Harry Ford. manager
 of a garage in Fairfield avenue. was called before the Secretary of State to
 explain why the markers of his gar age were upon the automobile
 Walter B. Shaw of this city. testf- fled that his wife purchased the car CTS were upon it when the accident occurred.
 Judge Thomas C. Coughlin who was present in he interests of the Shaws, who are going to bring suit against the Connecticut Company. explained the Shaws. it had been placed in MT. Ford's garage for the purpose of be- ing sold by him. and tha, it was un- der his care and management. and therefore properly bore his license numbers
 and likewise in the case of the Nor walk Consolidated Auto Company. which was on the carpet to answer to the charge that the company had il- legally hired ou. auto numbers and markers. It was brought out that for the company.
 Richard J. Steiner. G. w. Matthews State Policeman Frank Verilli and Charles Schof' cid. all of Bridgeport. were the ate witnesses. Those tes- tifying for the Norwalk Consolidated CT of East Norwalk. president and gen. era; manager of the company. and George N. Philcox of Darien. direc- tor and vice president Mir. Steiner was ordered by the State to hire the markers from the motor company, 1T possible.
 This was the evidence Steiner gave at the hearing: He is a textile worker in Bridgeport and went to South Nor walk with State Policeman Verilli. No- vember 23. Steiner had talk with MT. Philcox ahou the markers and then went to MT. Glover. who got him two markers when Steiner sad that wanted to get to New York and that he did not wany to ray for having the car registered. Glover did not accept money for the markers when Steiner offered to pay. Glover said he was short of markers and he showed Stein CT a marker that he had made him. self. Steiner testif ed that here were other markers rented out by the com pany.
 G. W. Matthews testified briefly that ore man had the use of his company's numbers for the rest of the year for $1
 Frank Verilli said his attention had been called to the report that this was hiring out it's numbers. He said he had talked wi h Charles Schofield in Bridgeport to see if he could buy the car which Schofield had purchased of Dr.. Osterback in Nor walk. To bring that car to Bridgeport from Norwalk Schofield said he had paid $1 for the use of the companv's markers. Schofield had driven the ca! over 2.0o0 miles since. having the hired markers.
 Charles schofield testified that he had purchased a Cadillac machine of D-. Cste-hack and that he had taken the numbers of the Consolidated Auto Co'r'nanv. The nunnhe~s ~o~e taken from a car and he had offered $1 to MT. Glover. who would not accept it. He said that his statement to the po- lice officer that he had raid s1 to the company for the use of the numbers was falsehcod done because he be- ieved he was n,akine husin >ss trans action. and that what he sad at the hearine was the truth.
 Theodore Glover. president of the