Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-02
Motorcycle Fatality
 at AttaWaugan
PHILIP cAFFERY, g, ALMOST IN-
 sTANTLY KILLED.
GIRL SERIOUSLY HURT
Miss Lillian Parker, 20, Girl Hurt, Was Formerly Employed in Norwich Motorcycle Dashed from Between
 Two Buildings and Crashed Into Auto
Cspecial to The .Bu1letin.l

Danie1son, May Philip Caffery, P, of Attawaugan was almost in- stantly killed and Lillian Parker, 20, employed in the mill at Attawaugan, was probably fatally injured at about 9.30 o'clock Monday night, when the ing was struck by a small runabout car driven by George Eastment of Brooklyn, who was being given a demonstration by Earl Wood, who was also riding in the car.
 The car is the property of the Will liam Haywood garage of Moosup.
 Man Expired Within Five Minutes.
 Caffery expired within five minutes after the accident. It was later learned that he had suffered a frac- ture at the base of the skull, scalp wound that bled profusely and frac- ture of the left leg below the knee, his leg being ripped open for the dis tance of several inches.
 Miss Parker in Preoarfous Condition.
 Miss Parker also suffered a fracture at the base of the skull and a frac- ture of the left leg below the knee. She was rushed in an automobile to the Day -Kin'baII hospital at Putnam and at midnight it was said that her condition was exceedingly critical with the chances against recovery.
 Ho wthe Accident Happened.
 MT. Wood, who was in the car with MT. Eastment, gave out a statement as to how the accident happened. It appears that MT. Caffery and Miss torcycle from Attawaugan to visit | with MT. and Mrs. Frank Moore on the West Side.
 Motorcycle Dashed from Between
 Dwellings.
 Mir Wood cola FIa To was coming from Brooklyn to Daniel | son when the motorcycle suddenly dashed out from between the dwell ings where MT Moore lives.
 He says he heard no sound of the horn or other warnings to indicate that the motorcycle was coming di- l rectly out into the path of the ma | chine and that it was in front of the | car without an instant's warning. Story of the Crash. In the crash that followed the right i fender and headlight of the car struck the motorcycle about in the 1 cylinder which was broken off and both the motorcycle and automobile i swerVed toward the north side of the 1 street. The automobile was quickly l stopped.
 Car Going 20 Miles an Hour. 1 MT. Wood says that before the ac- l cident happened Eastment had cut the ] power off and that the car was run ming in neutral and coasting along at 1 not more than 20 miles an hour with i the idea of stopping at MT. Woods | house which was only three dwellings 1 farther down the street. The car was being driven close to the right hand 1 curbing and there was no chance tc I avoid hitting the motorcycle. Physicians Soon on Scene. Dr. George M. Burroughs, pr. F. P I soon at the scene of the accident. Caf- fiery was already dead so the physi- | clans turned their attention to Miss ] Parker who was quickly hurried tc 1 Putnam. Coroner Arthur G. Bill anC | Medical Examiner Dr. A. H. Tanner MT. Caffery which was removed by Undertaken Louis E. Kennedy.
 Auto Not Badly Damaged.
 The automobile was not badly dam aged, the right fender was crumpleG up and headlights smashed in.
 MT. Caffery was a clerk in the At. | tawaugan Co.'S store and was one O. the best liked young men in the will lage where the people were shocked | by the accident. He was a chief sup port of his widowed mother and { young man of splendid character. H. leaves besides his mother, three broth CTS, Bernard of Baltic, Thomas, a clerl in a store at Dayville, and anothe brother in Canada.
 Girl Formerly Worked in Norwich.
 Miss Parker has been employed il the cloth department of the Attawau gan mills. She formerly lived in Nor
 wich and at Central Village He
 mother is a resident near Latnic1
 Hill, a few miles west of Danielsor and she has two brothers, who ar
 employed on the farm of Oliver E Downs in the town of Brooklyn.