Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-04
Governor Wilson
 In an Accident
HEAD CUT WHEN AUTO STRUCK
 A MOUND
A PLASTER ON WOUND
Clothing 5oodstained, But Governor Says He Did Not Suffer Even Headache-WiII Speak Tonight.

Princeton. Y, J., Nov. 3-SSoV. Wood row Wilson tonight wears a narrow strip of collodiOn and gauge across the top of hls head, covering scalp wound three inches long which he re- ceived early today in motor car mis- hap on his way home from Red Bank, \. J. His automobile struck a mound in the road and jolted him up against 8 steel rib in the roof of the limousine car.
 The wound Is not serious snd the democratic presidential nominee will fulfil his speaking engagements in Paterson and Passaic. N. J., tomorrow night and attend 10 his correspon- dence as usual tomorrow.
 Did Not Even Cause Headache.
 Tonight the governor was in the parlOr of his home, the center of group of friends. There was nothing in his manner to indicate that he had met with any mishap. He said he did not feel the wound in the slightest degree and had noJ even de- yelcped 8 headache from it.
 ''i guess I'm too hard-headed to be hurt" he said smllingly as he received the correspondents.
 The governors family was kept busy answering the telephone tonight. alleviating the worry of friends who had heard alarming reports, they said, about the accident,
 5odyguard Shaken Up and Bruised.
 The accident occurred in the early hours Of the morning. The governor had spoken last night at Red Bank and left for Princeton. a distance of A miles, shortly before II o'clock He ty, tLn oP I,o l. Elkus, a New York lawyer who lives at Red Bank. The governor was accompanied, however, only by Capt. William J. Mcdonald, his personal bodyguard. who was shaken up and bruised.
 The machine was running about 15 miles an hour" narrated the gov ernor tonight, and we We're going very smoothly near Hightstown when the jar came. The chauf1uer did moi see the mound Of earth, being deceived by shadow thrown across the road by a post. Evidently the road had been dug up and a mound of earth presented a hard ridge. As we struck. Captain Mcdonald was thrown against the roof of the car. l felt Of my head and found that it was bleeding. I knew l wasn't seriously hurt. but knew that it was imprudent to continue the journey in the cold so we stopped some paSser by and within few min utes found the horne of Dr. Titus at HightstoWn. He dressed the wound carefully and cleaned IL, and we went on to Princeton"
 Made Prematurely Bald.
 The physician shaved the governors hair immediately surrounding the md md hn zt,.fr, -f. ter partially covers the bald spot.
 The worst thing about it," said the governor with a laugh, lis that it made me prematurely bald"
 Captain Mcdonald. the governors bodyguard, whose service as a state ranger in Texas left him many bull lets in his body, was also cared for by DP. Carnochan today. He found that his neck was slightly wrenched and that one of his old bullet wounds pained him.
 Governors Clothing BIoodstained.
 q don't care," he said tonight, ''as long as the governor escaped serious injury"
 The governors suit was stained with blood, as the wound bled profuse- ly at first. He said he was not dis turbed in the least by the accident but by the fact that Mrs. Wilson prob ably was worrying about his delay in getting home.
 When the governor arrived at his house after 3 o'clock in the morning his hat covered the wound and most of the family had gone to bed. It WAS moi known in the Wilson home. therefore, until noon today that Jh, governor had been hurt.
 
 Lost His Glasses.
 The nominee had to repeat his story of the accident several times during the day. He lost his glasses when the car struck. but got another pair today. It was d hard blow," he 1e- marked, "put m! hat acted as cush- ion, though not a very soft one"
 Most of the campaigning Governor 'SNlISon has done since he ran for gov ernor two years ago has been by auto mobile, but this was his first acci- dent. Many a time he has broken speed records, and on one trip from Sea Girt to Trenton he made the fifty miles in eighty minutes.
 Two Speeches Tonight.
 The governor will close his cam palgn tomorrow night with speeches in Passaic and Paterson. N. j.. speak ing again on behalf of the democratic legislative ticket
 I'll feel conscious of the galleries when l speak" said the governor, as he thought of the bald spot and strip of plaster on his head, but the lower tiers won't see it."