The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-10-02
DEATH CAUSED BY
SEVEN Joy RIDERS
L. j. Gass and Entire Family
Pinned Under Machine
at East Whately
MEN RESPONSIBLE
HURRIED FROM SCENE
BABY in the Gass Family Killed and Bow
OF IA Seriously Injured = All Eff
1orts to Find Car Which Caused the
Smash Unavailing.

SOUTHAMPTON, Mass. Oct o-Jov
riders Killed baby and sped away. leay-
ing the automobile party of Thomas !
Gass, Greenfield carpenter, wreck be-
side the state road in East WbateIv yes
terday afternoon. The accident hammered
when party OF seven young men rushing
south tired to pass the Gass machine
winch was going in the same direction
The JOY riders damned the right side of
their car against Mr.. Gasss tive-passengei.
Reo, hooked d front hub off the REQ and
flung the light machine in air The Glass;
ear It upside down in the farmyard of
Michael Halloran. Women living nearby
pulled Mr.. and Mrs. Gass and their four
children out. The l8-monthsold baby bow
was dead with broken neck. Alfred. IL
years old, was unconscious. The others
were bruised and shocked Down the road
the attacking car had disappeared in a
cloud of dust.
All the available description of the iov
riders and their seven-passenger antoine.
bile was sent broadcast over the country
side late IN the afternoon, and William 4
Davenport, Greenfield lawyer, who hap
pened upon the scene of the wreck immc-
dlately alter the accident. offered 500 for
evidence leading to the arrest of the sew
en-. Seven-passenger cars filled with young
men were stopped in half dozen places
about the western end of the state last
night, but no arrests were made.
Nobody saw the fatal crash except the
two automobile parties involved. so far as
could be learned last night. Tourists and
farmers IN both directions along the state
road from Halloran's told of seeing a large
touring car with several young men
aboard, each of them with gray can
turned with visor to the back. scorchinp
the highway from Greenfield southwark
a Polsh farmer two miles south of the
HalIoran home reported that a party of
several young fellows raced down the road
as Tar as his farm, stopped removed their
number plate and tore off down the road
to the south. This happened few min
utes after 230 p. m, the time of the
crash.
When the Gass car with the family of
SIX was thrown into the Halloran ward the
women OF Michael Haloran's household,
hearing the crash rushed out With the
help OF other women from a neighboring
house they lifted the REQ sufficiently to
hberate the sufferers. The Gass baby died
IN the arms of Miss Catherine Halloran.
Medical Examiner Wood of Mortified lat
er examined the child and said its neck
was broken. Automobile parties rapidly
assembled at the Halloran farm and one
party hurried Alfred, the injured boy, to
Northampton, where he was said to be in
serious condition last night His skull
probably is not fractured and he is expect
ed to live. A Polish doctor, DR.. j G..
Hanson, and DR.. Napoleon Holden of
Whately were among the first arrivals after
the accident. They administered what
medical aid they could.
Attorney Davenport of Greenfield, who
is offering the 800 reward for the wild
riders, took Mr.. and Mrs Gass and the