The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-31
AUTOMOBILE HUNG
ON EDGE OF BRIDGE
ON BERLIN STREET
lust After 1t Struck the Railing Last
Night Three Men Piled Out of the
Vehicle-The Machine Still
Remains There.

A Cadillac touring car of battleshiT
gray hue and bearing the license number
of l45O7 hung over the parapet of the
west bridge abutment on Berlin street at
daybrcak this morning and was still
suspended at o'clock this afternoon. A
thin pipe railing prevented the car from
going over the brink of the wall into
Stevens branch and to that same pipe
three occupants OF the auto probably
owe their lives. There is much of mys-
| terry about the car and the police of
Barre are not the only ones who are at
work on the unrayeing Through Chief
Russell OF the Burlington police force,
Mrs. Alexander Butler of 81 George
street, Burlington, has asked the local
authorities to aid her in locating her
husband, who left home early last even
ing after telling his wife that the Cadil-
lac would carry him either to Barre or
Fairfield.
A car with two wheels hanging over
the bridge parapet at Berlin street indi-
ates that he chose Barre. Two head
lights are smashed and the bumper
bears the marks of contact with some
thing that resisted the progress OF the
car. Otherwise the auto appears to be
un6amaeed. Just where Butter and his
Two connexions went after the accident
is an in, esting part of the mystery.
People who live in the immediate Vi
cinity OF the bridge say that ! Cadillac
car that might pass for the battleshlp
gray outfit came down. Berlin street
around IL o'clock last night A crash
was heard and one person who looked
out Of his window saw three men piling
cut of the machine. One wheel was
poised over the stream, but tie Others
were anchored to terra irma and Sc
curely grounded there, it seemed, by the
presence of the iron rail that starts at
the bridge entrance and continues along
the parapet II Is stated that the men
appeared to be working TO release the
Cadillac until l:30 o'clock this nom
ing. At that hour a car of less ample
a Ford, called at tno bridge
and relieved the weary workmen. The
driver of the smaller ear header his We
hicle toward Montpelier and after that
Pcrlin street people, at least tnose who
live at the east end of the tloroughfare,
heard no more of the tinkering.
This morning police headquarters was
appraised of the presence of the car and |
when mid forenoon arrived and no one
had appeared to claim the auto. Chlef
Sinclair got in touch by telephone with T
the office of the secretary OF state at
Essex Junction. Guy w. Bailey in
formed the chief that the license number,
I4507. had been assigned to Alexander
Butler, Burlington man. The chief s
description of the marooned Berlin street
Iuto tailed with the data on file at the
Office. Then. Chief Sinclair
clephoned to the office of Chief Elssell
n Burlington and learned that 4 man
,amed Alexander Butler lived at g
icol &c street in that city. Near noon !
o-dav word was received at police head
uarters here which indicate that Mrs. {
,utler was much alarmed over her huS- :
and's whereabouts. I
Irs. Butler Sent Another Car to Barre.
Burlington. Oct 3l-Alexander But :
ar of George street, whose Cadillac ear
'as found hanging over the edg" OF q
ridge in Barre this morning, eft Bur d,
ngton in the machine last evening, tell
NJ his wife that he was going either
0 Fairfield or to Barre. Mrs. BGtlcr q
ad not heard from her husband direct {
, to-day but was interviewed by the r
IA. lington police M response to call :
ON Barre. On learning % the circum-
-,nces of the car being foJ'id in Barre, =
is. Butler sent . man IN their other :,
rr. a Ford. to Barre. to Iearn more !.
bo,.. what had happened