The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-13
Fairfield County News.
News of the Autos.

| At East NOrWalk, Sunday, an auto l owned by Daniel T. Murphy was be-
 AS she attempted to make turn the l car did not take the sharp twist | smashing instead into a telegraph
 pole. A headlight and some other 1 damage to the car resulted
 | The number of tacks picked up by | automobile tires during the last week | or two in The Norwalks leads to the conclusion that a systematic effort is | being made by some person to cause | automobilists trouble. Practically ev- | cry tack pulled out of tires has been
 a new one. A great deal of glass is | being left on the highway also. A | number of automobilists have express | ed the opinion that in view of the l fact that a license fee of S1O to $40 per year is exacted for each car, and nothing for other kinds of vehicles, l they are entitled to some little protec- I tion.
 | A touring car owned by Charles s. l Trowbridge and driven by John Cur | tis, came to grief in Norwalk, Thurs | day. The driving rod, between the | two front wheels broke in two almost | in the center The driver was power less to do anything but throw out his | clutch and put on the brakes. The | car lurched against the stone gutter, | slid along the curb for a few feet and finally brought up hard against | the end of a curb stone. The wheel which took the force of the blow was l completely wrecked.
 The brake broke on the automobile | of Frank Downs, Greenwich, Monday | near Round Hill, Greenwich, and the | car ran into a ditch at the foot of l the hill and turned over. The occu- pants MT. and Mrs. Downs and two
 friends from Waterbury, were thrown | out and all were hurt more or less. | Mrs. Downs, the worst hut, has a | broken arm.
 Charles L, Barker of Norwalk, au- | toed to New Haven last week and re- | turn, last week While on his re-
 turn he was witness to a peculiar automobile accident. A man was in- | structing a woman how to drive a car | and at that moment when near the | crown of a steep hill, the embryo driv- 1 CT stalled the engine. The car com | menced to back and before the man | could get at the brakes the car had l dashed off the bank and crashed into a tree. One of the rear wheels was | smashed and some other damage done | but fortunately the occupants who in | cluded two women besides the one woman who was driving, were not hurt, although they were bruised and scared.
 | In Norwalk, recently, an intoxicated l farmer was driving along and not be- l ing able to see with, he ran directly | into an auto that was standing on the l right hand side of the road. The | horse stumbled into the machine and | the right front wheel of the wagon ran clear over the front axle of the auto. | There was a crash, the horse stumbled l but caught himself and the man | whipped him up.
 Hen Raising Partridge Brood. Postmaster Bailey of Bethel has 12 | little Hungarian cartridges, with l domestic hen for stepmother. Will | liam E. Daley, while moving on June 30, accidentally ran over and killed l the mother partridge; her nest was | found to contain twenty-two eggs of | which three were broken. The next day the eggs were placed under hen owned by MT. Bailey and a few days after seventeen little birds were l matched. The hen killed several in the nest, but dozen are now living and lively as need be.
 Refuse to Pay.
 U. S. Marshal Bishop who spent sev- eral days in Danbury recently making demands upon the defendants in the | case of D. E. Loewe & Co. vs. Martin Lawler and others, and upon the banks in which money of defendants is held by attachment, for the pay ment under execution of the award of damages, secured in the United States
 
 report that in every case where he has made demand payment has been refused. The demand was understood to be a formality in order to get the
 matter another step along toward the actual execution, which is not stayed by the appeal of the matters to the United States circuit court of appeals, which is now being prepared. Beside the banks in which about S65,000 is
 held, MT. Bishop has made demand upon about sixty individual defen-
 dants, leaving about 15O who have not
 been visited by him.
 Suit for Damages.
 Papers have been served in a suit for $5, 900 damages on George L. Lock- wood of Norwalk, automobile dealer and chauffeur, for killing George l..
 Johnston, July g, 1909. The complain ant alleges that Johnston was riding
 his bicycle, when the defendant "reck-
 lessly and negligently operated and
 managed his said automobile at rate
 of speed greater than is reasonable | and proper In another part of the
 complaint it is alleged that the defen-
 dant had not provided his automobile
 with suitable lights. Lockwood was exonerated in the Norwalk Town court
 when he was tried for manslaughter. Lockwood was not exceeding the speed limit and that the defendant who was hard of hearing, met his death accidentally.
 Gift to Church.
 Through the will of the late Mrs
 Eliza. Beers, of Norwalk, St. Paul's church is enriched by the sum of S2,-
 800. By the terms of the will $1,O0O
 is left in trust, the income to be us- ed for the poor children of the Sum-
 day school, S1 ,000 is left outright and in addition there were two legacies of
 s400 each, to be devoted to the parish in case of the death of the two ap- praisers of the estate. Since these ap- praisers are no longer living, this sum of $500 also falls to the parish.