Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-29
8 HURT IN AUTO CRASH:
Women's Hair Pulled Out by
Roots and Blood Flows Pro-
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In an automobile accident. which left
the Newburyport pike at Hawkes. cor
ner, Saugus, strewn with wrecked
machinery, bloodstained wearing ap-
parel and several tufts of woman's hair,
ripped from the head with patches of
the scalp, six persons were seriously in
jured yesterday morning.
PARTY OF CLUBMEN AND WOMEN.
The car owned and operated by Will
liam.F. Hathaway, jr., of Beckford Hall,
Bickerstaff street, in the Back Bay,
was bringing party of two other men
and three women back to Boston, after
a midnight supper at the Ferncroft Inn,
Danvers.
The approach to the scene of the dis
aster is down a long steep hill. The
car, as it reached the bottom, swerved
from the turnpike into the ditch, on the
left of the road bed, sidewiped mons
ter boulder and then, with momentum
scarcely diminished, careened on until
it struck telegraph post, fifty feet
beyond
This it snapped off short, the impact
of the collision causing it to turn turtle,
at the same time hurting its occupants
out.
The automobile was one of four
which were chartered by Boston club
men to go to the Ferncroft Inn. The
occupants of the other cars picked up
the injured and rushed them into Bos-
ton to the Eliot Hospital on Audubon
road, where precautions were taken to
protect the names of all but Hathaway
from becoming public.
The Saugus police, notified of the &C
cident by telephone, found themselves
baked at speedy identification of the
wrecked cars owner by the absence of
the front number plate and the mutila-
ton which the back one had suffered.
The numerals were as indistinguishable
as if they had been pounded with a
rock.
REPORT TWO KILLED.
The authorities at the hospital dis
claimed knowledge of any other person
injured, other than Hathaway, Even
the Salem police, investigating report
that two persons had been killed, re-
ceived no satisfaction.
1t was four hours after the accident
that the Saugus police received their
first knowledge of the affair. Then the
Wicked car baffled all efforts at in
CURRY None of the nearby residents
had seen the accident; no one had heard
the crash.
About noontime a man, who refused
to allow his name to be given out,
drove up to the house of the chief of
the Saugus police, and after pledging
him to secrecy, told him that he had
taken the injured to the Elliott Hospi-
tai on Audubon road, Boston.
Hathaway himself refused to talk.
He told his wife that he had no idea
of how he had come there, and he
steadfastly declined to divulge the
names of the other occupants.
Hathaway is professional chauffeur
and makes his living by taking out
parties in his car The latter was a
present to him from his father, DIR. W..
j. Hathaway of Weymouth, who pur-
chased it at cost of $4,000 last sum-
mer. DIR. Hathaway visited his son at
the hospital, but did not learn the names
of the party.
THREE WOMEN HURT.
Col. John H. Dunn, street commits
sioner, who on his return from the
Ferncroft Inn saw the wrecked auto
mobile, said that three girls and three
men were in the disaster. This he
learned from the occupants of a
machine standing near the wreck.
He described the machine as a total
wreck, snd said it was remarkable how
any of the occupants escaped with their
lives. Boston Journal.