The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-30
DYING AFTER
 JOY RIDE IN
 STOLEN CAR
Thomas Sears of Knowlton Street Hurled Through
 Windshield of Automobile
 as Machine Dashes Into
 Quarry and Strikes Wall.
Driver is Held on Three Charges and Will Be Ac- cused of Manslaughter If Sears Dies Accident Fol lowed Wild Revels.

Thrown through the windshield of an automobile when it was driven into a quarry wall in Charles street this morning by drunken man, Thomas Sears of 206 Knowlton street. struck the rocks and is now in St. Vincent's s hospital with a fracture of the skull. He is in a serious condition and sur geons at the hospital are doubtful of his chances of recovery. The driver of the car, Alfred J. Wemet of ATT State street. an employe of the Rem ington Arms Co.,. who came here re- gently from Worcester. is under arrest at police headquarters charged with drunkenness, reckless driving, oper- ating an automobile without license and taking the car without the own CTS permission. Should Sears injur- ies prove fatal Wemet also will e charged with manslaughter.
 The accident followed wild joy ride which occupied the greater part of last night and this morning. At the time Wemet drove the car into the quarry, the owner and regular operator who had acted as chauffeur during the night, was in house on Charles street. He said today that he would bring suit against Wemet for the damage to the car. It Is wrecked and virtually beyond repair.
 According to the statements Of Charles Zapparoh 1f 593 Water street, the owner of the car, he was engaged about 10 o'clock last evening to drive Wemet, Sears and two other young men to Brewsters, N. Y. They went to several roadhouses in that neigh borhood and came back to this city this morning.
 When they returned to Bridgeport. they drove to the Sheffield lunch room on Main street to let one of the mem bers of. the party, a young fellow named Murphy, out. He is an em- ploye of the lunch room and had to report for work. After Murphy left the party, the others drove to house in Charles street where Wemet and Curly" Oliver, a bartender in an East Side saloon, went into the house. The car was left standing in the street facing Main street and was few doors from the house which the men entered.
 Zapparon remained in the car with Sears who was also said to be under the influence of liquor. After they 'nad renamed In the car loi SO'0io u minutes, small negro boy came up to the car and told Zapparoli that he was wanted at the house. Leaving the car he went up the stoop and passed Wemet who was leaving the place.
 As he was going into the house to find what Oliver desired Zaoparoli met the colored child running to him. and saying that a man was driving away with the car.
 Jun, nire down the steps he saw We- met driving recklessly at a high speed down Charles street He yelled at him but no attention was paid and the next moment as the car neared Milan street it swerved to the left, over the five foot embankment and struck the wall of the quarry. Sears was hurled from the machine against the wall and when picked up was bleeding from his nose and mouth.
 Zapparoli told the police that he immediately went home. Wemet is alleged to have disappeared from the scene and no one paid attention to Sears. No one seemed to know what became of Oliver. A telephone call
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