Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-04
Police Auto
 SkiddGd, Upset
ONE WATERBURY .OFFlcER,DRIV-
 ING CAR, IS KILLED
FOUR MEN IN HOSPITAL
Police missioner and Registrar of Voters Have Broken Ribs and In- ternaI Injuries.

Waterbury, Conn, Aug. 3.-One man was killed, two possibly fatally in- jured and two others less seriously hurt when the automobile in which to their homes in this city slddded and overturned early today on the Wood bridge road near Seymour.
 The dead:
 Robert p. Kiersted, member of the local police force, skull crushed and otherwise injured
 The injured:
 William A. Johnson, police commits brain and internal injuries. He has been suffering from weak heart,
 Henry O'Connor, registrar of voters, ribs broken, head badly cut and bruised, internal injuries uncertain; i; will probably recover.
 Christopher Dunphy, ribs, broken, cut and bruised, not seriously hurt.
 AIphonse VaIiene, head gashed and bruised; discharged from hospital,
 All of the injured were brought to this city in an ambulance sent out from St. Mary's hospital and were taken te the hospital. Dunphy is a saloon keeper and Vallone is known as pugilist.
 The automobile was one recently purchased by the police department. It is a complete wreck.
 Took Machine Without Mayors Per-
 mission.
 The party left Waterbury in the evening for Savin Rock after the police automobile, used chiefly by the detec- tive department, had been secured by Kiersted, who said that Commissioner Johnson wanted to use it. In taking the machine out of the city without the mayors permission the department rules were violated
 Speedometer Showed 65 Miles.
 The speedometer of the smashed car registered 65 miles an hour. The car was not ordinarily capable of this speed but had run down hill for two miles. It sidesWiped the stone bridge careened across the road 60 the oppo- site bank, where two wheels caved in continued a short distance and then turned over There was liquor in the ruins of the car and it is said that several of the passengers were intoxi- cated Kiersted did not indulge in in- toxicants.
 investigation Certain. Several of the police commissioners condemned tonight in no uncertain terms the violation of the department rules. Mayor Francis T. Reeves re-
  is certain.
 Kiersted's body was brought tc Waterbury this afternoon. and so was the wrecked automobile. The dead pa trolman leaves a wife and an year old boy.
 Accident at a Bridge.
 Seymour, Conn, Aug. 3.-The point of the accident to the auto containing the Waterbury party early today was at the bridge crossing & brook near the Beach Paper mills. From marks or the bridge at daylight it was evident that the machine skidded just as it was leaving the bridge. There is mark on the bridge rail which shows thai wheel struck. The machine ther shot across the street and would have righted itself had not the forward wheels hit 8 hump on which there IS footpath A wheel collapsed, upsettlng and wrecking the machine.
 Officer Kiersted died shortly after the accident, and Medical Examiner Davis of Oxford, who had been called, viewed the body and gave permission to have it removed to Waterbury.
 An Experienced Driver.
 Superintendent Beach of the Water bury police department came here dur ing the day and viewed the place o1 the accident. He spoke highly of the dead officer, saying he was an expert enced driver and had never had ar accident for which he was responsible MT. Beach wept as he spoke of the ac- cident.
 The remnants of the machine were gathered up and removed by truck to Waterbury this afternoon. The place of the accident has moi been. considered a dangerous one There is no light just at that point, but it is not in the dark exactly, as there are lights not far away.