New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
Car Crews Report Differs From
 That ef faGteTy Official.
BERLIN AUTHORITIES INVESTIGATE
May Arrest the Motorman and Con- ductOr Who Appear to Have Tried to Evade Responsibility-O Beck strom the Victim.

It has developed that Motorman Andrew Nelson's report to his su periors relating to the discovery of the body of Oscar Beckstrom on the flats between this city and Berlin late Saturday night with the right leg severed, conflicts with accounts vol- unteered by people who were passen- gers on the car. As result, the Berlin police authorities have begun an investigation and the probability is that arrests will be made.
 According to a story told by Super intendent c. H. Mccarthy of the Suf- field-Berlin Trap Rock company, the report of the car crew was untrue and it was the car which conveyed the injured man to the city which ran over and nearly killed him.
 Conductor Indifferent.
 The conductor was just about to hand me a transfer" says MT. Mo- Carthy, when the speed of the car was so suddenly slackened as to cause him to lose his balance. Simultaneous ly, there was jolt as the wheels passed over some obstruction on the track I cried out to him. You've run over somebody, but he did not heed me and continued to give out trans fers even after the car had stopped and some of the passengers had gone out to see what the trouble was. Finally, he went out. I followed him, and, about fifty feet behind the spot where the car was standing, we found the man. What there was of his right leg was lying across one of the rai1s and he appeared to be very seriously h If n the man and, as he was about to leave the scene someone suggested that the man be placed on the car and rushed to the hospital in New Britain. He waved this person aside, saying, That's a coroners job. Let him stay here until the ambulance comes,' but I insisted that the injured man be brought to New Britain in that same car at once, and he un- doubtedly felt obliged to consent. Then, instead of hurrying along, as they should have done, the crew stopped the car at a corner a short way up while the conductor took time to telephone, presumably for the ann bulance and to converse with another car crew about the accident The passengers on the car were indignant that the apparently dying man should be made to wait when the conductor could have saved time by 1nstructing the other crew to make all arrangements over the telephone while his car proceeded into the city in all haste"
 MOtorman Evading Responsibility?
 Tn an interview with a Herald re- porter Monday morning, Frank l.. Beardsley, superintendent of the local division said that, according to the report which the crew had made to him, the motorman saw an object on the left rail in barely time to drop the fender on his car and shove it to one side to prevent it from going under the wheels The superin- tendent had been given the impress sion that Beckstrom had been in- jured previously in some manner, possibly by the car which passed over the line before Motorrnan Nelson's car came along. However, the other motorman informed the superin- tendent that he felt positive that his car had not struck anybody.
 Prosecuting Attorney William H. Gibney of Berlin was informed of the circumstances this t7morning and he imm ediately began an'f investigation. The conductor whom MT. Mccarthy refers to is G. E. Provost.
 At the local hospital it was re- ported this afternoon that Beck strom S condition is much improved and that his recovery is not impos- sible. Besides the loss of his leg, he suffered number of other serious injuries, among which were several !,