The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
SHEPHERD STILL U UNCONSCI0US FROM
 AUTO COLLISION
Salesman Suffers Critical Head Injuries When He Is Pinned
 Under Machine

John B. Shepherd, aged 25, a sales man for Meigs & Co.,, son of Mrs. Julia B. Shepherd, widow of 324 Norman street, remains in a critical condition
 at the Ga1en hospital, Myrtle avenue, as the result of an automobile col 1ision in Fairfield yesterday after noon. Shepherd suffered dangerous head injuries when he was pinned be- heath an upturned automobile. It is believed that his skull is fractured and that he is suffering, too, from severe concussion of the brain. He has been unconscious practically ever since the accident.
 The other victims of the accident. Gurdon Williams, aged 20, Daniel
 Williams, aged 19, sons of Mrs. Nellie Williams, and their cousin George Mccormack, 28, escaped serious in jury. Mrs. Williams is the owner of the Howard avenue hotel, 577 How, ard avenue, and Mccormack is the
 manager of the hostelry. Gurdon Williams is bookkeeper in Jacob Rup- pert's Bridgeport branch.
 All were brought to the Galen hos pita1 following the accident, but Cur don Williams left there for home last night and Mccormack went home this morning.
 Daniel Williams was driving his
 mothers ear, a Studebaker, with the 
 Beach, when, passing Church corner, at Fairfield, he ran amidships into a Pierce Arrow touring car, driving up from the shore across Fairfield ave nue. A house near the corner makes the view at the street only a short one. The Pierce Arrow is owned by Garrett E. Winant Of New York, and was driven by George Pfnzitio, of 30 W. Hath street, an expert driver who participated in the Sport Hill climb ing contests. Beside him sat Miss Marjorie Winant, daughter of the the chauffeur, Maurice Birdener.
 Williams believes the two cars were going about 25s miles an hour. The elder .Winant says investigation he has made convinced him the Williams car was making about 35 miles and his car IS. Both drivers saw the dan ger too late to avert the crash, and the Williams scar,- much lighter than the other, turned upside down, pin ming Shepherd and Gurdon Williams beneath it.
 MT. Mccormack said that the Will Hams car was not going over 22 miles an hour and that if the driver of the ether car had taken the precaution 1 that drivers of cars running toward a l nafn thoroughfare from a cross street | are supposed to do the accident would | have been avoided.
 The Pierce Arrow swerved from the | road and ran up on the church lawn tearing down two granite hitchfng | posts. The car was considerably dam aged. Gurdon Williams and McCor- | mack, though badly bruised, hastened l to extricate their comrades. Daniel was pulled out not badly hurt, but | Shepherd was unconscious when he | was taken out.
 The injured were made conf ortable | ar a arrival of | Rourke & Rourke's ambulance which | was quickly on the scene. McCer- mack and Dan Williams were taken | in an automobile from Mills garage. and the others in the ambulance, to | the GaIen. Dan Williams suffered in- juries of the back and hips. McCor- mack's thumb was broken and he had | many bruises. Gurdon Williams was | apparently. the least injured, and last night was able to go home, suffering 1 from shock and bruises.
 Shepherds condition has failed to l improve materially. Only momentar- fly. once during the night, did he re- | gain consciousness. His widowed | mother and his brother have been al- most constantly at his bedside while 1 and nurses are anxfous1y indications of returning con sciousness.
 Shepherd is among the best known young men of the city. He has faculty for making friends, and his business has brought him into con- tact with hundreds who feel a per sonal acquaintance with him., and who await the outcome of his mishap with anxiety.
 Birdener, the chauffeur of the Pierce Arrow, who under the law is held responsible for nishapS was placed under arrest following the ac- cident and released in bail of $500 furnished. by George Smith. He will be arraigned dn the Fairfield town court later in the week.
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