The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-29
AUTO RAMS 1. BILL B0ARD;
 ONE IS DEAD
Chauffeur Takes Dr. G. W. Osborn's Gar Without Leave and Picks Up Four Appropriateness For Mad Dash Through Country.

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 feur for Taking Gar, and
 Another Youth Driving It
 One man is dead, two others injured, and two of the party of five joy riders are under ar rest, following an all night joy ride. in a stolen touring car, that terminated with a furious burst of speed down the New town turnpike at $40 this morning in the wreck1ng of the ear at the foot of OK Hill, North Main street. The victims are :: WILLIAM COSTELLO, aged 20,
 25Oa Davenport street, skull
 crushed, killed almost instantly
 JAMES w. REARDON 22 Waller
 Place, Iaceration of forehead,
 confusion of left eye. Home. GEORGE I. KOSHER, 240 Fair
 field avenue, scalp wound, con
 cussion of the brain, shock; St
 Jincent's hospital.
 RAYMOND ELY, 464 Kossuth
 street. and ARTHUR LUCIUS,
 I95 Fairfield avenue, escaped
 injury. They sat in the rear of
 the car with ReardonJ
 Racing down Main street at furious speed, awakening nelghbors through the countryside by the roar or its speedfng engine the car brought up, a through a ragged hole torn in a mas give billboard at the foot of 7the hiH- Pieces of timber tearing through the top of the car crushed the skull of young Costello, and tore the sealns of. adoshier, who sitting at the steering wheel at the left side of the car. was lHss exposed to danger.
 4Eoshier admits the spee64of the car u4s 50 miles an hour, perhaps more A. D. Hull, a Bridgeport lawyer living in upper Stepney, saw Q ear race through the village in the early morn minute, and other early morning driFers< report seeing a car tearing through the country al furious speed. Moshier is underi arrest, at St. Vim cents hospital, charged with man slaughter. Bail has been fixed at Headquarters in default of bail of $1, GOO He is charged with violation the statute which prohibits the taking of an automobile without the owners permission. The car, new Buick touring car, Is owned by pr. George " osborn.
 Lucius makes confession of ta-, king the car without the owners Ieaves at Police Headquarters to-day.@ His story follows:
 eDr. Osborn purchased the sew passenger Buick car about three or four days ago. He hired me in the capacity of chauffeur and I started working for him Monday of this week. Yesterday after noon the doctor ordered me to drive to Danbury where he was to treat a patient. We returned about 6 o'clock and I was ordered to house the car at C1ark's garage at Bulls Head.
 "On my way to the garage I came across young Ely, a friend of mine, and he suggested that we take little ride I acquiesced and we headed for Fairfield. Up on. our return at 7:30 D. m., we stopped at the Casino skating rink on State street where we spent the early evening About , If:5O we started for the city. On r reaching the Blue Ribbon garage I stopped to purchase a fastening for one of the curtains of the car. Here met Costello and Reardon who are employed there Moshier was talking with them
 s.Someone, don't know who, suggested we take a ride to Dan bury and I drove the machine as far as NorWalk. Here Moshier insisted on driving the machine and we changed places. He drove the machine from Norwalk to Danbury and we then started for home by way of the Newtown turnpike. We were going prob ably 80 miles an <1our when the accident occurred. We'll maybe little faster for that matter believe we struck a rut in the road when coming down OK Hill and sWeryed to the right headed for I know until Driver Burlison T placed me under arrest
 All the occupants of the car are voting men. Costello. and Moshier were in the front seat, on the trip from Danbury to this city. From the Investigations of the police nothing has been gathered so far to indicate that any of the men in the party was under the influence of drink.
 Reardon, who was able to leave his home this afternoon, is well kno~n- about town He was connected with the public works department as in spector of street sprinkling for several gears Of late he has been employed With the Blue Ribbon garage as a salesman, where Costello also is em- ployed. How the party was formed is fold in the statement of Lucius.
 Tn the hundreds of spectators who
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