The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-11-03
Occupants of the Automobile
Not Much Hurt Although
Vehicle Fell on Side
MEN OCCUPANTS
WERE FINED TO-DAY
Two Women Taken to Hos
pital, but One Didn't
Stay Long

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For the second time within few
months disaster has stalked in the path
OF Hiram D. Warren, jitney driver, of
Montpelier. A joy ride which had its
: progression over maze of roads in Barre
and Barre Town and lasted from noon,
when the party left the capital, until
lo'clock last evening, wound up as the
ljitney and its passengers landed in a
lcnder muck near the Bolster plant on
IGranite street Two women, Mrs. Frank
Robinson and Mrs. Frank Ferguson, were
taken to the City hospital in A. W. Bad
ger & Co.'S ambulance and the driver and
Frank Robinson were escorted to police
headquarters and locked up by Officer
John w. Dineen. A fifth member of the
party, identity unknown, was missing
when police, doctors and ambulance men
began to do business in the cinder pit.
The jitney apparently suffered but little
damage in the course of it's gyrations.
When the officers examined the outfit,
the car was lying on its side with the
top badly punctured and the windshield
shattered
All four known members of the party
reside in Montpelier So does Mr.. Fer
guson, who dropped into police head
quarters late last night to inquire for
his wife. According to the officers, Mrs.
IL 4 Al.
rear seat of the car, while Mrs. Ferguson
and Warren had the front seat to them
selves. A pint bottle, which the officers
say was on the front seat, was retained
by the police as a possible exhibit in the
case. The fifth member of the touring
party, so one of the women related to
the police. boarded the car at Depot
square, but evidently made his escape on
the brink Of the pit.
Attaches at the hospital stated last
night that Mrs. Robinson was suffering
from a general shock and severe head
ache. Mrs. Ferguson fingered al the hos
pital long enough to let the doctors take
two stitches in her right knee cap and
then repaired to the home of her mother,
Mrs. Peter Leclair, who lives at the cor.
ner of Central and Summer streets.
Neither woman, it was expected, would
feel any serious physical effects of the
although a physician who at
tended the injured on Granite street and
later at the hospital, advised Mrs. Rob
nson 10 remain at the institution until
Il was definitely determined whether she
had suffered internal injuries.
An incoherent story which Warren re-
ated TO the police last night had for its
most salient feature his failure to fol-
ow the straight way on Granite street,
lfter the car. swinging in from North
Main street had headed for Blackwell
treet by the River street route. Mr..
Warren said he intended to cross the
ridge at Granite street and supposed
le was following the right course when
Ic took a turn near the Bolster power
liant.
A mistake IN choosing the wrong turn
ed to the undoing Of the jitney party.
Warren piloted bis car along the road
hat leads 20 the power plant and when
e discovered his mistake, be essayed a
ircle. thinking TO regain the main thor.
ughfare without backing the machine
n % doing, be skirted a rather deep hole
rherc men AZ the plant are wont 70
ump accumulations Of cindcrs. Recently
apt J. G. Wilson of the street depart
ient Rad carted away much of the cinder
eposit with the result that seven
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as wheeled too near It's edge Jtney
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