Putnam patriot., 1917-10-26
JOSEPH SHERLOCK
 DIES OF INJURIES
Vas Hit by Mysterious Automobile on
 Monday Evening Near Home
0aly Lived About Twenty. -Four Hours

1OS0HA CuNAtNNNf fHf ntSa oA tiAN
 home on the Pomfret road Tuesday
 eveping from injuries received by be-
 ing struck by a mysterious automobile
 shortly after seven o'clock, Monday
 evening, Death was due to internal
 injuries.
 Who was driving the fatal car is not
 known and there is an element Of mys
 tety surrounding the case, as a few
 minutes before he was found lying
 face down in the middle of the road.
 way in front of his own home he was
 seen near the Little River bridge some
 distance away. sIt seems hardly cred
 ible that he could have sbeen dragged
 that distance hy machine, and the
 police intimate that the machine that
 struck him might have stopped, load
 ed him in, and dropped him neaf his
 home. IL hardly seems possible that
 any person could have been inhuman enough 10 leave the man face down in
 the middle of the road after carrying him in the machine. It would have been more probable that they would have lain him by the roadside al least. Neither does 1t seem probable that an auto could hit so heavy aman and not have known il, although 1t was dark N. A. Ballard, who discovered Sher
 lock in the road, says he passed new Ford car going at good rate of speed just before he saw Sherlock lying I there.
 The car that MT Ballard saw com-
 ing towards him at the foot of Hospi l tal hill must have been the one that struck Sherlock. 1t came by the spot | where he lay a few seconds before Mir. l Ballard got there and If 1t did not hit him the driver must have seen him ly- | ing there A new Ford car Is the only
 clew the police have.
 MT. Ballard tells the following story: "I wps coming from Pomfret about i quarter to seven. 1t wss dark. As l
 neared the foot of Hospital hill l pas l sed a horse and buggy and just then |
 blinded me ana l pulled out to the I right as it passed. 1 could not see I who was in the car but l noticed that | 1t was new Ford touring car. When
 l had proceeded little further along
 saw man lying in the road. l stop ped my car and went back. l thought l he was dead. About that time other people came. The people in the buggy. l arrived and man in another ear com- ing from Pomfret reached the scene | also Charles Richards, the grocer. We turned the man over and someone lit match and identified Sherlock and
 said that he lived right there. had
 made up my mind to take him to the 1 hospital. Someone asked if it was | surely MT. Sherlock and another match
 was lighted and the men said it cer- l tninly was.
 The side of Sherlock's face was skin.
 ned and bleeding. 1 noticed no blood coming from the mouth or nose. He | opened his eyes slowly but was appar ently dazed. We carried him into the
 house and put him in a Morris chair | and doctor was summoned Sherlock was reported as resting comfortably Tuesday although 1t was said he was complaining of pain in his side and might be internally in- jured. He grew rapidly worse toward
 evening and died between 6 and o'clock, twenty-four hours after he was hit.
 Relatives of Mir. Sherlock remon- | strated with him when he started to leave the house to go up town. They did not think he should go and watch ed him until he got to the Little River bridge. 1t is said that twice before he had started up town and turned back so 1t may be that he turned around and had reached the house again when struck, bat the time was so short be- tween the time he was seen near the bridge and the time he was found that it hardly seems possible that he could have walked the entire distance. MT. Sherlock was born in Wilson vile. He came to Putnam with his parents when a young man and for years has been employed as weaver in the Putnam Woolen Company's mill. He was member of Putnam Loyal Order of Moose.
 Mir Sherlock leaves brother, Frank; and three sisters, Mrs. Edward Null Ian, Anna and Alice Sherlock, all living in Putnam.