The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-09
GEM TORN FROM
 MRS. GERNERT'S EAR FOUND IN ROADWAY

A valuable pearl earring which was. torn from the left ear of Mrs. Frank C.aGernert in the automobile accident at Newtown Wednesday night in which her husband and Mrs. Robert e. Seeley were killed and Mir. SeeIey severely injured was recovered in the roadway near the scene of the acci- dent late yesterday afternoon by Her man Peck, one Of the watchers placed in charge by Sheriff Austin B. Blake man. A search for the earring had been conducted ever since the .Gbodies were removed from the scene. Of the wreck The earring is said to be worth $2oo and with it's mate was ;. recent gift to Mrs. Gernert from her husband MT. Peck found the jewel embedded in the soft sand near the hard Warrenite. Almost every inch Of the roadway had been gone ever before the jewel was found.
 All day yesteFday SherifT sBlak e111an, Constable Charles B. Johnson and t1elr assistants had their hands full keeping curious motorists on the move and the road open to travel. The spot where two persons met vio- lent death is one Of the most sbeauti- fu1 Of the countryside. About. a mile from Newtown center is the home Of C. B. Bacon, Rockside Farm. The house is pictlnesque with many large winows facing the roadway Ilst be- yond the hard glistening Warrenite roadwasy dips down in a pretty little valley. At the bottom is the Quagley house. ancient of architecture. ur- painted and gray with age. es
 Starting into high speed at the crest of the height on which sits the Bacon house. according to the eye witnesses, MT See1ey drove the i'll fafed big Packard car down the hill into the little valley and up the other side traye1lng at least 40 miles an hour. Harold BIakenan of Monroe chauffeur of the little Ford which came behind. the occupants of which were the only witnesses of the acci- dent testified before. Coroner Phe1an Yesterday. that in his judgm ent MT. SeeIey did not know of tho curve in the road at the top Of the hill on the other side. He was off the Warren1te road and climbing the 9Ank before endeavoring to get the big aItomo- bile lighted and back into the road way again. Mir BiakRman Believes Nzr See1ey turned his steering wheel too far around and so turned the car over burying it's occupants beneath 1t Mr. BIakanan said yesterday that he did not consider Mir SeeIey was driving too fast and he fully believed that had he known the curve was be- fore him he could have made it easily.
 It developed at the hearing yester-
 
 William F. See1ey, brother of the driver of the car to take away some thermos bottles and lunch hamper that had been in the i'll lated car. A woman's patent leather slipper little
 worn with polished steel buckle and q mans felt hat were found on the oth- CT side of the stone wall where the car struck.
 Yesterday afternoon an aatouaobiie truck from the Blue Ribbon garage thought the wrecked car to the city. Mr Seeley suffering severe mental and physical anguish in the Danbury hos p3ta1 is reported to have sent word to his brother to destroy the car as he never wished to see it again. E
 The coroner's hearing yesterday was held on the front porch of the Bacon house. Hundreds of autorno- a5f1es hearing holiday seekers sped by the house as the witnesses gave their testimony.