The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-19

each, $1, GOO, seas slight token of my affection for them for their un- failing kindness to me- The rest of thet estate in equal shares between her two children, Ellen Davis Wood. of New Canaan. and Grace Davis Me Douga11, of Brooklyn.
 Petitions in Bankruptcy.
 Sigrnund Suiro cIothier in Dan bury, has filed a petition and he made oath that he did not have the money to pay the filing fee. His liabilities are listed at S, ,o11.34 and ST 781. .59 is trade, valued at $4,oo0; store fixtures, $500; and debts due on ouen account, s15
 John T. Andrews, a builder in Bethel, has filed a petition He has liabilities of s3,638.So and s3.611.27 is unsecured. Assets consist of real estate, valued at $500; machinery, $125; debts due, $79.25; horses and vehicles $805.
 Losses by Fire.
 Damages estimated at $2,ooo resulted | from. a. fire that started n1ysteriously in an upper story of the Purity MIX and Cream company's barn at Stam- ford, Tuesday Two horses, valued at l $350, were destroyed,
 Automobile Accidents
 John Lockwood, son of Harry Lock wood of Mtanuss aged seven. years, is in the Greenwich hospital suffering from injuries received when he was struck by an automobile owned by Mrs. Mary E. Merchant of Greenwich He received 8 broken rib, a fracture of the pelvts bone and deer. lacera- ton of the left leg, besides other cuts and bruises and, possibly, internal in- juries. Unless complications set in he will probably recover The chauffeur attempted to pass two automobiles which were proceeding in the same direction A wagon was approaching in the opposite direction and the Lock wood boy, who had been riding on the tail board, jumped off and started to cross the roads directly in the path of the machine. The chauffeur applied | his brakes, but 1t was too late The radiator of the machine strck the little fellow and hurled him into the air He was rendered unconscious.
 | Ruth Varian, of Winnipaulz, escaped serious injury in almost unaccount- able manner at Norwa1k, Sunday af- ternoon. She was crossing Wall street the path of a large touring car owned and driven by J. s. Mccarthy, of Mil ford. The car passed over the girls body, but she was not touched by the wheels or any of the underhang1ng mechanism and therefore escaped any Injury
 Frank B. Bernier, an automobile dealer of Stamford, was fined $1O and costs Monday in the Greenwich Bor- ough Court. MT. Bernier was ar rested on a. charge of reckless driv- 1 ing after an accident on March 2, in 1 which William Miller and Gustave I Carlson were injured, a wagon 1T, I which they were driving broken and the horse killed. Miller testified that l the Bernier car came along on the left side of the road at a speed which he estimated at between 35 or 40 miles an hour Bernier stated that he was. driving at a rate of Is to 20 miles an hour. He had crossed the first trolley track when his car struck a stone. The machine swerved be- cause the steering gear caught. He applied the brakes but it was too late.
 William c. Mccormack of Williams port, Pa.. a student at Yale, who was driving a car through Norwalk with society ladies, and who was arrested l on six counts of violations of automo- bile laws, was found guilty of all counts fined SIS and costs. amounting to $86. 6.91. He pleaded guilty to. dr1y- I ing without a certificate and license, to being under the influence of liquor | and to <5Etying at an excessive rate of 1 speed and thot guilty to the charges of failing to stop when told to do so.