Putnam patriot., 1913-07-04
ONE DIES WHEN
 AUTO HITS POLE
Hartford Fisherman Killed and 3 Hurt in Collision at Windsor
DRIVER PUT UNDER ARREST
Owner of Car Held Under S, Bonds, Claim Rear Tire Caused
 Wreck-Party Was Returning From a Fishing Trip.

Especial Hartford Correspondencel !.
 Hartford.-One man died, two were severely injured and three others more or less hurt at Windsor as a re- suit of the automobile in which they were returning from a fishing trip eolliding with telephone pole The dead man was Frank Kowalski 72 years old, of this city. Henry Czinskf was badly cut about the head and face by the shattered glass of the cars windshield, and Joseph Wilinski. owner and driver of the car. was badly bruised and battered Both live in this city.
 The car was running at good rate of speed, it is said, when it swung across the highway to the wrong side of the road, near Station Al on the Rainbow trolley line, and headed for the pole. The driver attempted to avert the collision, but the middle of the car struck the pole. The crash was with such force that all of the occupants were thrown from the ma chine, the car was practically broken ln two, and the telephone pole bent
 Kowalski was still alive, but nnoon- scious when picked up and died on the way to the hospital. He had suffered s compound fracture of the skull.
 Wilinski was arrested and later re- leased on bond of s5,000. He will have & hearing before Justice of the Peace Thomas J. Lawless. Wilinski claims that a rear tire fiattened and that caused him to lose control of the car.
 Drowns with Cramps.
 Taken with cramps, Francis P. Con don, IS, was drowned in Mohegan Park lake, at Norwich He was one of a crowd of about 75 boys in swim ming That he had disappeared was not noticed until 8 boy on the bank who was watching the Condon boys clothes succeeded in attracting the at tention of the swimmers. The body was recovered about an hour later.
 Mrs. Woodford Exonerated.
 Coroner John J. Phelan exonerates Mrs. Isabel H. Woodford of criminal responsibility for the death of Will fam Steinhauser who was killed by her automobile in Fairfield on June 8, when Steinhauser awaiting trol- ley car became confused at the ap- proach of the heavy touring car driven by the woman. Mrs. Woodford is the widow of Stewart l.. Woodford, former Minister to Spain.
 Centenary of Henry Ward Beecher. Litchfield, the home of the Beech CT family, observed with commemora tive exrcises the Tooth anniversary of the birth of the Rev Dr. Henry Ward Beecber. Dr. Newell Dwight Hills, successor of Dr. Beecher in the pull pit of the Plymouth church, Brooklyn was the days orator General fd0ra to King, probably the only living in timate friend of the eminent divine, spoke reminiscently of him.
 His Sweetheart Dead.
 Broken hearted, it is believed, over the death of his sweetheart. few months ago Private James " D'Anna, 24 years old, of the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Company Coast Artillery Corps, at Fort H.>G. Wright, New Lon don. committed suicide by taking poi son in a remote section of the reserya- tion He comes from Detroit.
 Drowned tn Farmington River.
 Joe Hiyossky, Lithuanian, p years old, was seized with cramps while attempting to swim across the Pennington River near Adams Grove and went down before help could reach him. He was employed as section hand by the Central New Eng land railway and had been in this country about two years. The body was later recovered. Hiyossky leaves no relatives in this country.
 Unable to Survive Injuries.
 Mrs. Janius s. Norton, widow of the late president of the the Home National Bank, who was so terribly hurt in an automobile collision when her husband was instantly killed, died St the Meriden Hospital as result Of meningitis effusion and other in- turies received in the accident. Mrs. Norton's funeral was held Tuesday Her husband was buried Saturday previous. She is survived by four children, four sisters and brother.
 Boy Held in Auto Killing.
 News has been received at the Auto mobile License Bureau here that C. Raymond Brock, 16year-old high school boy, who surrendered to the New Haven police admitting that he was driving the automobile which killed Carl Ruggieri, nine years old, last Thursday, was held in sl,500 ball by order of the Coroner
 Farm Hand Arrested for Blaze.
 Six horses, five hogs and about 70 chickens perished in the burning or a large barn belonging to Richard Mather and rented by John Donahue, al Windsor. In addition quantity or hay, oats, farming implements and some harness was destroyed. John L. Doyle, who had been working for Don ahue is under arrest charged with having set the fire. The loss is placed at S5,00G, of which $3,5o0 falls on Donahue, and the remainder on Aather.