Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-07-06
PEERLESS CAR
COMES TO GRIEF
George Barre in Hospital with
Right Arm Broken
Machine Went Of Bank in Guilford-
B. E. Bowen, Chauffeur, Was Giving
Friends Outing.

A big Peerless touring ear owned by
+. j. Perry of Bellows Falls, was badly
smashed Saturday evening and George
Barre of BrattleborO, n chauffeur who
was riding as n passenger in the car,
8 suffering from n broken and dislo-
Gated right arm. b. T.. Bowen, chauf
feur for Mr.. Perry was taking Barre
and another acquaintance on a little
iaunt 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 APP
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 rock portion of the Demands
ton road in Guilford. Whether he was
trying to pass another automobile 60
ing the same direction or whether he
was just simply ON the wrong side of
the road the authorities have not sat
isfed themselves.
For distance of - feet the tracks
showed where the left wheels of the
car were over the soft edge of the road
way and where the ear ripped off the
fence before it finally plunged down,
sideswiping two trees and finally bring
ing up head-on against sizeable tree.
The ear then turned on its left side.
DR.. Fremont Hamilton, who was on
his way to his farm in that locality,
happened along soon after the accident
and met the three young men. He
brought them to Brattleboro, where
Barre went to DIR. f.. r. Lynch s office
and later to the Melrose hospital. Bowen
reported the accident to Mr.. Perry and
boarded a train to his home in Bellows
Falls.
An inspection of the wreck Sunday
showed that during the night and
before o'clock that morning someone
had unscrewed the tire and rim on the
front wheel that was in the air and had
stolen it. Mr.. Perry said that the tire
had been run less than 80 miles. Two
extra tires on the rear of the machine,
almost new, could have been removed
by unbuckling a strap. The clock on
the dashboard was running that morn
ing as if accustomed to the sudden jars
of smashups.
Mr.. Perry said that he paid off Bowen
Saturday, as the young man, who is a
resident of Bellows Falls, was to quit
his service that night. After going to
the Country club he told Bowen to go to
the Brooks House and get supper and
return for the party at $50. That was
the last be saw of Bowen, the Young
man reporting the accident by tele-
phone and then boarding a train home.
Mr. Perry said that Bowen had been
with him three months and did not use
intoxicants and that he let him go mere
]y because he had opportunity to en-
gage again a chauffeur who had been
with him several years.
A wrecking crew, after two hours of
hard work, got the car back on to the
highway and made sufficient temporary
repairs to tow it into town. The radia
tor is smashed the two forward cylin
ders of the engine broken and much
more material damage to the car was
done. The car cost $4,000 and hat
been out of the paint shop only few
days.
Bowen was arrested in Bellows Falls
Monday on n warrant issued by state I
Attorney William X. Daley charging
him with using an automobile without
the consent or knowledge of the owner
Sheriff c. +. Mann made the arrest.
Bowen was arraigned that afternoon
before Judge A. +. Cudworth in the
Brattleboro municipal court and was
represented by Frank +. Barber. He
entered plea of not guilty and bail was
fixed at 5000. No date was set for the