The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-08
CORONER PHELAN HOLDS
 SIEMON FOR MANSLAUGHTER

jafring of the hats from the heads of the occupants or 4he breaking of the side lamp Of the machine because of its striking against the pole, but that it wasA broken by its impact against the body of the deceased, or that the machine stopped at such pole at all (except possibly for fnstant), but that on the contrary the machine in their best judgment did not stop at such pole, but continued to travel as before regardless of the death it caused.
 The law of this state at the time of in jury in reference to automobile equipment and the use thereof and the speed and management of auto mobiles in the public highways is not uncertain or oppressive but is framed for the benefit, convenience and safe ty of the general 6public It insists, however, that automoDfles in the in terest of that safety, be provided with bell or horn that either shall be sounded by the driver when ap- preaching a. highway corner, that the machine shall be equipped with head lights which shall be visible one-half. hour after sunset for a distance of two hundred feet in the direction to- wards which the vehicle is proceed ing.''
 In this regard the Supreme Court in passing on the necessity Of auto mobile lights at night lays down the rule as follows:
 ssThe speed at which any vehicle can be driven over highway at night must be determined partly in view Of the distance ahead at which travellers upon or approaching the same highway would be visible"
 CnFrie vs.@ Consolidated By, S1 Conn, 3s6.
 Rabbit on Motor Vehicles Sec. 2s6.
 Larson vs. Fond Du Lac, 141 Wis consin, 57.
 Tn this case it. is conceded that no headlights were burning at the time of injury or that any warning bell or horn was sounded as the machine ap- preached Grove street.
 The law Of this state in reference to the management and speed Of auto mobiles on the public highways is well illustrated in the case of the State vs. Campbell, s2 conn., 671, as follows:
 .aOne who wilfuIlys drives an auto mobile in a public street at a rate of speed or in a manner expressly for bidden by statute and thereby causes the death Of another, or one who with reckless disregard for the safety Of others so neg1igently drives an auto mobile in a public street as to cause the death of another is guilty of crin inal honaicide.'
 In view therefore of the law as stated, and without reference to the cOnQQcL or SaemOn ana nlES IE1Sn0S subsequent to the dearh of the de- ceased I feel that the lack Of head lights on the machine, to see and be seen by their aid, on such an artery of traffic as Fairfield Avenue at the. time of the injury, the failure to slow down and sound the bell or horn as the automobile approached Grove sStreet corner together with a speed that caused the body Of the deceased to be hurtIed through the air a dis tance of forty feet to the sidewalk, impeIs me to conclude that the ma chine was being run at the time of in- jury in manner that was reckless and dangerous to public safety.
 I therefore ind that John De Mar tino came to his death at the time. place and in the manner stated as the result of the crminal act of said CSarf F. Siemon.
 A copy hereof is transmitted to Prosecuting Attorney Delaney and to State Attorney Carter for such ac- ton by them as is by law directed
 Dated at Bridgeport, this sth day of June, 1914.
 JOHN J. PHELAN,
 Coroner