The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-07-04
KILLED BY AUTO, HER
WEDDING SECRET OUT.
Mrs. Wynetta Davis Benedict
Pinned Under Husbands Car
Near Danbury.
ARTHUR BRADY'S WIDOW
Former Husband Shot Her, and
In His Will Cut Her orr
With Only $500.

DANb'Kf. NOHu. July S-MTs' wynn
eta Davis Benedict. the young widow
OF Arthur Brady Of Golden's Bridge.
y. Y. who shot her through the left
lung three years ago and died Of loco
motor ataxia a few days later. was
killed tonight by the overturning Of n
racing automobile In which. she was
riding with her husband. James A.
Benedict OF Katonah. n. Y.
Mrs. Brady and Benedict were mar
ried secretly in New York on Monday.
June %. The marriage announcement
was to have been made at the end Of
this week and Mrs. Benedict was pre-
pa ring the cards to-day. None OF her
friends knew Of her second marriage.
Benedict told OF It after her death.
The Benedicts had been spending their
honeymoon in a cottage owned by the
brides brother at Mil Plain. four miles
from Danbury This evening they
started out to drive to Danbury along
the Mill Plain road. They expected to
dine at a hotel in this city. The car
was one Of several fast ones owned by
Benedict.
Tire Burst Rounding Curve.
The machine was travelling at Q rate
OF about forty miles an hour around
an easy curve when tire blew out.
The machine slowed. hit a tree. bounded
into a ditch and after sliding about
forty feet turned over. Mr.. and Mrs.
Benedict were both pinned underneath
II.
Near by lives David Burman. a stock
broker of Danbury. He ran to the up
set automobile and found that he could
drag out Benedict. who was unin5ured
He and Burman tugged at the automO-
bile until they freed Mrs. Benedict. She
was unconscious and she died In fifteen
minutes with her head in her husban nd q
lap.
Benedict took his wifes body to the
home OF her grandmother. Mrs
Katherine Davis. in Mill Plain. where
Mrs. Benedict had been living since
Bekedst EfT years Did. His wifi.
was IS years old. Arthur Brady, tt
whom she was married in 1908. wal
moro than twenty years her senior
He was one OF the wealthiest men ir
northern Westchester county and lived
in a Colonial house at Golden's Bridge
on an estate that once was part Of d
great tract OF land owned by his
family. ON the night Of June 2s. 1910
DR. w. J. Carpenter of Katonah wai
called to the telephone to hear q
woman's voice say:
II have just been shot, Come over
quick. This is Mrs Brady"
Finds Nrs. Brady lncOnscious,
Dr. Carpenter hurried to the Brady
house and found Mrs. Brady uncon-
scious on the floor near the telephone
When she was revived she said her
husband had shot her. Brady said she
had shot herself When informed OF
his wife's accusat tion he stopped talking
Both Brady and his wife had revol-
vers. neither OF which could be found
| Brady was crippled by paralysis. Ow.
ing to his condition a warrant sworr
out for his arrest was not served.
Mrs Brady improved rapidly after
the bullet was extracted. hut her hus.
band died on July is. He left one son
| To this son he left the bulk OF his es.
tate, cutting his wife OF with $4,000.
1t was said at the time that fear tina,
his young wife would inherit his large
estate was the reason for the shooting.
Brady was one OF the six sons OF
Simon Brady. n cattle dealer and land.
owner. Each OF the sons received a
| comfortable fortune by their fathers
will. but Arthur was to enjoy his share
for life and pass II on to his widow ant
children.
Brady Denied shooting Her.
Brady insisted with almost his las,
breath that he had not had a revolver
in his hands for years and that his
wife had shot herself In trying to shoot
him. He said that she had shot al
him three times before and had horse.
whipped him.
Mrs. Brady said that her husband
did the shooting when she returned
fro.. the office OF Il physician whom she
had consulted about her husbands
case. Most OF the people In Westches-
ter county accepted her version as true
Mrs Brady Benedict was born In
Montana. Brady met her in that State
| while on n business trip. She was q
handsome woman.