The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-24
JOY RIDERS HURT WHEN THEIR CAR
 USPETS ON CURVE
After Salvaging Hired Vehi- r cle, They Commander it |. For Night Ride.
YOUTH WHO SERVED
 AS CHAUFFEUR HURT
Other Occupants Bruised Though Raised Top Pre-
 vents Probable Fatalities

Three occupants of an automobile out for a joy ride were injured ana the car was badly damaged about 4:3( o'clock this morning when 1t turned turtle on Fairfield avenue west of Ash Creek, in front of the home of Mrs Mary Big, at the junction Of the road leading to Greenfield Hill through Grasmere. Only the fact that the tor of the car was raised prevented seri- ous results. The automobile belongs to Jeremith Reilly, Jr., the plumber of 2S3 State street, and as it was taken without permission the joy riders will be arrested. N
 Last evening" MT. Reilly's son, Fred- erick, took the automobile, five pas senger touring car, and went for a ride. With him was Louis Avillo of 279 State street. While on Savoy street in, the North End the car be- came stuck in the mud and Reilly and AvilIo left it as they were unable to get it out under it's own power. With the intention ofNreturning for it today and pulling it dut with another car Reilly went home while Avillo joined la group of fellows on State street.
 Avillo told them of the car getting stuck and their futile efforts to re- lease it. Someone in the crowd of six or seven proposed hiring jitney busses to pull the car from the mud and the suggestion was readily accepted. Two ttney busses were hailed and in them they went to Savoy street where the touring car was pulled from the mud As a, reward for their efforts, ride was proposed and starting down Main street, the youths in the automobile met Thomas Pardee of 790 Lafayette street. fs
 Pardee was invited to join them and as he was more experienced as dr1v- CT than the others. he was given the position as chauffeur. The machine was then driven out Fairfield avenue and at the second turn beyond Ash Creek the accident happened while they were driving at a high rate ot speed.
 The car had rounded the turn at the entrance to Grasmere when it skidded from the crown of the road. Pardee turned sharply to the left to regain the center of the pavement, but the car slowed and turned com pletely over.
 With crash, the machine rested on the cover and if that had not been AeAAcS~s- SAAo ONNoP~SA1Io WOoiH haNO OCClA crushed. Pardee was caught between the steering wheel and the hood of the car and his back was badly wrenched. All of the others in the rear seat were thrown violently against each other and the side of the car and suffered bruises. One of the men fractured hls collar bone and was treated this morning by, a State street physician and another was tn- tured, but his name is unknown.
 Pardee was placed in a'ipassing au- tomobile and brought to his home.
 Mrs. Big was the only person who witnessed the result of the accident. She heard the crash and running ito the window saw the youths trying to get from under the tonneau.
 The top of the machine was smashed, one side of the car was broken, and the front of the car was said to be badly damaged by those who viewed it today. This morning it was lighted and lowed to a garage for repairs.
 Report of the accident was made to fthe police by another son of MT. Reilly and the youths who took the car will be taken into custody.