Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-06

A we'll known summer resident of Watch Hill Flora Sheldon Bush, 46, wife of Samuel Prescott Bush, prominent citi- when on the Watch Hill road, near the entrance to the road leading to Kenneth Ridge, the Daniel Sully place, at 545 o'clock Saturday evening. She was struck by an automobile owned and operated by | Herbert Davis of Mystic, a stock broker with offices in New York, and who for nlerly did business in Providence.
 MT. and Mrs. Bush were out for walk and were conversing with MT. and Mrs. Herbert Field, summer cottagers at Watch Hill who had stopped their car on | the east side of the road. As MT. Davis car approached at moderate speed MT Bush suddenly started across the road, 1 followed by Mrs. Bush MT. Davis ap- | piled the brakes but could not stop the car in time to avoid striking Mrs. Bush. l She was thrown to the ground and the 1 wheels passed over her, the car coming 1 to a standstill within ten feet of the place where the accident happened.
 All of Mrs Bushs ribs and her left ankle were fractured and her lungs were punctured. She died shortly after the accident and before the arrival of Dr. 1 Robert Dove, who was summoned from Watch Hill. pr. Michael H. Scanlon | viewed the body and permitted it's re- | moval to a local morgue As medical examiner he referred the case to Coroner Kingsley, who will hold an inquest.
 1 Mir Davis was prevented from avoid l ing the accident and choosing a clear 1 track, as Q third automobile was turning ! into the road which leads to the Sully place. Mir Davis reporting to Police Chief i Brown stated that he was not to blame | for the distressing affair and was in ] readiness to stand for an investigation. l He was released on his own recognizance MT. Bush is president of the Buckeye Steel Casting company of Columbus and 1 a director of the Pennsylvania railroad MT. and Mrs. Bush have passed the sum- mer at Watch Hill for a number ot years. There are in the family two sons James and Prescott Bush, and two daugh
 ters, Mrs. Frank Howe of Cleveland anc Mrs. Stewart Clement of Buffalo.
 l Chief Brown, with Medical ExamineI Scanlon and Coroner Kingsley, visited tn,
 site of the accident and took measure
 ments. The Fields car was from watcl
 Hill, bound towards Westerly, and il
 passing was hailed by MT. and Mrs. Bush
 MT. Fields backed his car and came to :
 standstill eight feet and five inches iron l IHo SIueWdlhs prdCIlCaIly ln the middle o
 the road. MT. and Mrs. Bush stood nea
 the car when MT. Davis rounded tn
 curve, sounding his horn. Just at thi
 time the car from the Sully drfvewa,
 turned on the main road towards Watc
 Hill. Had Mir Davis continued on tn
 right side of the road there must hay
 been collision, as the road was blocke
 by the Fields car.
 There was a clear way between th . Fields car and the sidewalk, and Nil
 Davis drove his car to the left of tn
 Fields car. Just as he came up to tn Fields car Mrs Bush started for the side
 walk and was struck by the Davis cal
 MT. Davis was operating al moderat
 speed, and MT. Bush sidestepped withi
 the length of his automobile, and with tn ! two front wheels on the sidewalk Actu: i measurement shows that MT. Davis ma . chine travelled twenty feet after strikin
 Mrs. Bush- There is nothing to indicai
 that Davis was operating at high speed.
 Truck leads of booze that come throus
 Connecticut from New York and int
 Rhode Island by way of Westerly al
 frequently seized by prohibition agen before they reach their destination. TT Rhode Island federal officers are on the 2 job and their seizures are more ths
 double those of -:o'- sesigned to Col
 necticut. Five men were before u = United States commissioner Friday afte
 noon and held for action of the feder
 grand jury. Louis Schneider, Willia
 Feinberg and Enrico Civiglio of Ne
 York city pleaded guilty to the charge
 transporting wliskey from New York in
 Rhode Island without federal perm
 These men were on a five ton true IA carrying 1900 quarts of whislzey, whi - the officers halted on the Narraganse ss Pier road last Thursday afternoon. T pt truck was first located at Saybro ic Junction but was not stopped until it h l-i proceeded into Rhode Island. The a sT cused are held under bail of $3.0oo ca