The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-10
THOMAS HALEY
 LOSES LIFE IN
 AUTO ACCIDENT
Prominent West Haven Manufacturer and Brother of We'll Known Church
 Singer in This City
Secretary Warner of D. T. Welch Coal Co.,, Who Was in Car With Haley at Time of Fatal Mishap, Held by Coroner.

New Haven. Feb. 10-Thomas Haley. secretary and treasurer of the : Wire Novelty company, of West Ha- ven, was killed and William B. War ] her. secretary of the D. T. Welch Coal 1 company, is being held by the poilce at the direction of Coroner Eli MIX,
 as result oL an automobile accident
 which occurred on congress avenue
 near the W est River br4uge Iast even- IhS aDOut o:I0 CLOCK. Haley Was and
 W afher IS aIIIOns ILre nIOst prUnIIHeIit resI06ntS Ot West f1dVeII- t1aIey nv ed at lOo E1m stI eet, and Warner lives at 541 Washington avenue. Incl e
 were no eye Witnesses to the accI- oent and all that W amer, wno Was driving the auLomoDIIe, couId tell about it is that something happen ed.''
 Warner was locked up at police headquarters in tnIs city last nlgnt, aDOut Il o'clock. No charge was pre- ferred against him. but coroner Mix ordered him held until the compltlUn of the investigat non. The prisoner se- cured hIs freedom about an hour af- ter being locked up, under bail of ator Charles Graham of West Haven.
 It was reported at first that the automobile was run into by a trolley car, which threw it against the guard rail of the bridge, but no car whatso ever figured in the accident. Warner says that he doesn't know what. did happen, but thinks that he m nine was sruck from behind. Whatever the cause, however, the machine crashed into the rail of the bridge and threw Haley out into the street. He struck on his head and received a fractured skull. Warner was also thrown out, but was not badly in jured. He was able to make his way around last night and went to police headquarters at the request of the coroner.
 Haley and Warner were the only RoT aT a a R- cident occurred. They had come in to New Haven in the machine They stayed for quite while in the center of the city and then started on the
 Haley. who lay unconscious in the road after the accident, was picked up by another automobilist who came along, and rushed to the New Haven h ospital- The injured man arrived in the hospital about o'clock and died at 9:30.
 The accident caused a big sensation in West Haven, owing to the promi- hence of the men Both have taken and social affairs in the borough. Both were members of the Phoenix club.
 Thomas s. Haley. who was killed, several brothers and sisters. One sis ter Is Mrs. Edward E. Minor, wife of the superintendent of the New Haven Water company. Another sister is a well known church singer in Bridge | port.
 Warner is a member of one of the ! best known families in the borough. i
 One version of the affair is that | Warner struck suddenly into a rut. which caused him to lose control of the machine and before he could re- i gain it, shot suddenly toward the railing of the bridge. Then in an 9 ttempt to prevent his shooting over the embankment into the river he threw his steering wheel over with such lightning speed that the machine turned over on it's side. throwing both men out. The auto, as a matter of fact did turn over and is badly dem aged on one side It was removed by men from the Holcomb garage.