The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-02
PEERLESS CAR
COMES TO GRIEF
George Barre in Hospital
with Arm Broken and
DislOcated
MACHINE WENT OFF
BANK IN GUILFORD
Friends Outing on Bernardston Road
While Waiting for Owner, Who Was
at Brattleboro Country Club.

blg Peerless touring car owned by
+. j. Perry of Bellows Falls, was badly
smashed Saturday evening and George
Barre Of Brattleboro, a chauffeur who
was riding as a passenger in the car,
| is suffering from a broken and dislo-
Gated right arm. b. Z. Bowen, chauf-
/ feur for Mr. Perry was taking Barre
/ and another acquaintance on a little
jaunt south of Brattleboro while wait
! ing for the time that he was to return
to the Brattleboro Country club to pick
up his employer and party. Bowen was
cut on one knee, but it is said that the
third young man escaped without ap-
parent injury State S Attorney W. r.
Daley investigated the accident
Conditions indicated Saturday night
and yesterday that Bowen must have
been driving at a fast rate down
through the narrow and dangerous
: slate roel, : portion of the Bernards-
ton road in Guilford. Whether he was
trying to pass another automobile 90
ing the same direction or whether he
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the road the authorities have not sat
isfied themselves.
For distance of - feet the tracks
showed where the left wheels Of the
ear were over the soft edge Of the road
way and where the car ripped off the
fence before it finally plunged down
, sideswiping two trees and finally bring
! ing up head on against sizeable tree
IfHha hon tprnal 70 laf+ 81 Ia
Or. Fremont Hamilton, who was OF
his way to his farm in that locality
happened along soon after the accident
, and met the three young men HC
brought them to Brattleboro, where
Barre went to Or. +. r. Lynch s offic,
i and later to the Melrose hospital Bower
reported the accident to Mr. Perry an(
boarded a train to his home in Bellows
Falls.
An inspection of the wreck this morn
/, ing showed that during the night anC
! before : clock this morning someon,
had unscrewed the tire and rim ON tn,
. front wheel that was in the air and ha,
stolen it. Mr. Perry said that the tir
: had been run less than 30 miles Tw
extra tires on the rear of the machine
! almost new, could have been remove'
! by unbuckling a strap. The clock o.
the dashboard was running this morn
ing as if accustomed to the sudden jar
of smashups.
Mr.. Perry said that he paid off Bowe
Saturday, as the young man, who is
! resident of Bellows Falls, was to qui
;. his service that night. After going t
" the Country club he told Bowen to 90 t
!, the Brooks House and get supper an
! return for the party at $50. That wa
! the last he saw of Bowen, the youn
: man reporting the accident by tell
phone and then boarding a train hom'
Mr. Perry said that Bowen had bee
! with him three months and did not us
! intoxicants and that he let him 60 mer'
Il ly because he had opportunity to el
gage again a chauffeur who had bee
j.. with him several years.
II \ wrecking crew, after two hours {
- hard work, got the car back on to ii
!; highway and made sufficient temporal
= repairs to tow it into town. The radi
: tor is smashed, the two forward eyli
n ders of the engine broken and muC
~ more material damage to the ear W;
- done. The ear cost $4,000 and hs
been out of the paint shop only fe
n days.