The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-15
ATTORNEY GENERAL TO REVIEW FINDING
 IN PHILLIPS CASE

I ebW bbh@&hh 9 gEeS@ l Hartford July 15-It was hearing day
 for alleged yioIators of the motor ve-l hlcle law in the automobile depart
 nent of the secretary of states office. Great interest was manifested in the lease in which Secretary of the State
 Albert Phillips and Phillip Carlson were concerned as parties in mixup
 near Greens Farms on the evening of
 June IT.
 Joseph Tedesco, the sec-etary's Echauffeur was driving the car at the
 time of the collision, which quite bad I ly damaged both machines. Secretary Phillips said that, under I the circumstances, he should order the hearing to- proceed and have the evil l dence reviewed by the attorney gem
 eraI before final action.
 Attorney Klein of Bridgeport, couD- a seI for the defendant, objected to such procedure. He offered a plea in i abatement asking that the complaint secretary was to sit at the hearing :, in which he had a personal interest He said that neither the secretary nor
 his deputy had a right to sit at the I hearing unless the deputy's authority should emanate from the same source las that of the secreary himself direct ! 1y from the people. This not being
 the case and as the secretary was neith- I ST Ill nor out of the state, there was I no authorized official in the state com petent to act. at the hearing accord ling to the law.
 MT Phillips again said that the sec- iretary'st duty was to take the facts I and testimony in automobile accidents l and to decide the questions of fact. He ordered the hearing to proceed and I said that the evidence would be sl1b~. ] mitted to the attorney general for re- view and advice He oYerruled the plea in abatement.
 Joseph Tedesco the aecretary's l chauffeur, testified to operating mo tor vehicle for about six years and
 driving some 15,000 miles and that he had worked for MT. Phillips about six months.
 He had never had an accident while Arriving and had never been warned for speeding. It was in the vicinity Of Greens Farrns on the night of June grades, where the accident occurred He was driving at the rate of from 12
 to 15 miles an hour. Carlson was go-
 ing in the opposite direction toward
 hi1 and Carlson was coming down the other
 Tedesco said that 1t seemed to him lthat Carlson was going from one side lof the road to the other. When his
 car was hit 1t was turned around the EOEnGE way IECEns NTHl1C115 ne WHlSf &D1It.B
 and. as a result Of the collision. the
 left front wheel was broken as was l also the mud guard and the running board. The highway at that point was straight for half a mile. There
 was ample room for three machines
 lon the road.
 I when his car was hit it was way
 over to the right and the right wheel
 was on the dirt outside the hard road
 way and Carlson's was in the midi n4 xf.a EfIeft. Ear1soT1ss car ran by about 20 dfeet zbefoae7stopping E11s lights were
 on. he said and he judged that Carl-
 son was going at about 30 miles an hour.
 Carlson was driving arunabont with
 a single seat designed for two people,
 and in. # were Carlson and two young ] women l MT. Klein, In cross examination,
 brought out that there was no speed
 ometer on the secretaryss car. C. D West .Jr another chauffeur l at Greens Farms, walking along the highway at the time of the accfdent said that he saw the collision after l the Locomobile had passed by him
 and was about fifty feet away He l said that the two wheels of the sec l retaryss car were in the sand off the
 hard road when 1t passed him and the other car was in the middle of tEle road zigzagging They came together with a. crash Carlson was on theftleft
 side Of the road and the Locomob4le 1 was on the right side.
 Harold Brewster Jensen, cnauffeur
 for E. s. Grant of Greens Farms, who was walking with West at the time,
 testihed to about the same things that l West did.
 The hearing closed to be resumed
 next Tuesday morning.
 Robert M Long Of Bridgeport, a colored youth, appeared before the prosecutor and said that he had opp l erated a car 100, eco miles without an
 accident. He was charged with being l under the influence of liquor while driving in Fairfield, In a reckless
 manner He said he had driven to
 New York with 8 load Of furniture 1 and wae tired when he reached Fair I field. While trying to track his car 1 to the right the other fellow ran into him. He ran into d hole beside the road. He had two glasses of beer the
 whole afternoon, with a fellow who was on the truck with him He said l it was a dark night and he was warn Led by a sheriff to light his lights. The damage to both cars, he said. would not exceed S. He said that his en- ployer had been arrested charged with drunkenness
 In Fairfield, Long was fined $10 and
 costs for reckless driving and given ten days in jail for operating a ma
 chine while under the influence of li-
 quor.
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