The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-04
Prominent Architect Killed Today In
 Automobile MiShap

against a telegraph pole. The victims are:
 Joseph A. OBrien. architect. aged 36, married, of ITS Washington avenue head crushed, killed almost instant ly.
 Henry E. Reilly of 35 Cannon street manager of the Stratford Inn, left knee cap shattered, right ankle frac- tured, wrench of shoulder. shock, and possible internal injuries; in Bridge port hospital.
 Walter Jones, 87 Beardsley street, colored. a waiter, aged about 30. shock bruises and abraisions. Taken home
 The accident occurred before 5:3C this morning. MT. O'Brien left his home in this city before daybreak, ex- pecting to visit his brother-in-law, John IF. McMahon. of the Connecticut had an appointment, and to return here before noon to keep an appoint ment with the builders of the Peerless Garage. Reaching the Stratford Inn, he breakfasted and invited Reilly and the waiter to accompany him.
 As they set out. Attorney George F. Mara of this city and John Kelleher of Naugatuck, a young chauffeur em- ployed by Abram M. Friedman. a mer- chant living at 388 Whalley avenue, New Haven. swung out of the garage at the rear of the Stratford Inn. The two cars set out towards New Haven at hot pace, with Kelleher's car in the lead. Following the accident Kelleher was arrested for making mis- statements to, the authorities. and on the charge of speeding was held in the Milford lookup. Mara disappeared shortly after the accident and up to g. late hour this afternoon did not ap- pear at his office in this city,
 The scene of the accident is a broad thoroughfare east of Milford village, opposite the home of William O'Hara, manager of the Milford plant of the O'Hara home with Kelleher and Mara in the lead. MT. OBrien tried to speed by them. His machine shot off the roadway into a telegraph pole.
 With a crash that could be heard for nearly mile away, the car plunged occupants headlong. MT. O'Brien was hurled head first against the telegraph pole.
 He fell almost in the middle of the road. Jones was tossed high in the air, hitting the telephone wires be- fore he descended striking heavily in the roadway. Reilly was flung high into the air and landed into the ditch. The crash led Kelleher to stop as quickly as possible and to return to the scene. MT. and Mrs. O'Hara also ran out in time to see Attorney Mara lifting MT. O'Brien from the roadway. MT. OBrien breathed a few times feebly, and expired in Mara's arms.
 Mrs. O'Hara hastened to the tele- phone in her home and summoned Dr. J. W. Ives, the medical examiner of Milford, who reached the scene of the accident within few minutes. By this time, other passersby had gathered about the wreck, and had lifted Reilly who was unable to arise. out of the gutter and placed him in a sitting posture. Jones was able to limp about unassisted.
 Dr. Ives found that Mir. O'Brien's death must have been a matter of a very few minutes. The automobile was wrecked. The two rear wheels, and the engine remained intact, but aside from that the car was a mass of wreckage. The pole had split the radiator and tonneau as if it had been struck by huge axe, and parted souareIy in the middle.
 Dr. Ives questioned the witnesses. Kelleher and Mara volunteered the that he and Mara had driven from the opposite direction but when Dr. Ives in scrutinizing the roadway discovered tracks showing that their car had been turned around only a short distance away, he called Kelleher a second time and when he questioned him more fully, Kelleher burst into tears and told the story of the mad race.
 Deputy Sheriee James A Maher