The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-12
RECKLESS DRIVERS
 BEING DOCKETED
Another Step Taken in the At
 tempt at Elimination
Card System Will be Ready Re
 ference

Among other actions recently taken by the office of the State Secretary, M. H. Rogers, to keep in touch with the reckless chaufeurs of Connecticut who endanger the pedestrian with their speed, is the Introduction of a card hIe which will contain some 168 names with their motor history attached, from September 3, 1909, down to date There will be twen ty-four heavy cases filed in pouches containing stenograph1c notes of hearings. The department a- ready has quite a library in motor crimino1ogy, for the most part enclosed in envelopes.
 When the day of the personal ex- animation arrives in Connecticut it will be the beginning of the last acts in the roundup of the joy rider. If the personal examinatione<with the photo graph of the chaumeurs on file ar riyes, it will mean return to the simpler life. This file is the latest of a series Of methods recently adopted Nearly every street railway company in the State has posted orders to it's employees to report violations Of the speed law in passing stationary ears, land many have offered to> furnish live witnesses. It is thought that the ear companies would like to have this law zmore prosecutions. Massachusetts has agreed to act with Connecticut in the further elimination of the reckless driver; New York believes the same courtesy should be extended to anoth- ser State as is extended to it. and Rhode Island has not yet expressed any opin- ion.
 Statistics will be compiled from the files to be held as evidence of the need of legislation on automobile laws sre- quiring the personal examination. At present the department is somewhat crippled in it's attempts, so satisfactory nevertheless to eliminate the reckless one.
 These cards contain the name street and city address of the ViolatorS com plaints and complainants. the convfc- tion with date, the explanation given, the States action, and the office dis posaI are all printed there9n. The purple type, so there may be no es- caping that, and where a license has been suspended fors>the balance of it's existence, the aehaumeur'S name Is also printed in purple ink, and the courts action is included The file will be a. valuable aid and well worth the trou- bIe of it's compilation
 Victor Toillon, 79 Main street, Tor rington, is the last operator to have his license suspended pending inves- tigation by the office, information hav-5 ing been secured that on September 8 he operated his car in such Q manner as to result in the death of Dr. Henry EI. Linstead. Word of the suspension has been sent to the chief of police of Torrington asking him to act ac- cordingIy, and Coroner Richard T. Higgins has been written for copy of his findings in the case of Dr. Lin
 pr. Linstead was killed Saturday ev- ening about 12 o'clock while returning from Litchheld in an automobile owned and driven by Victor Toillon He was instantly killed by the cars striking the railing of the bridge across the brook at Newbury Corners. His neck was broken Two rocks, approximately three feet in diameter, were moved several feet by the force of the impact.