Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-19
CLAIMS JERSEY AUTOMOBILE
 RAN INTO GREESF,s CA

Relative to the automobile accident in Coventry. R. l., on Monday afternoon In which D.. Frank D. Coles of this city was severely injured 1t was learn ed on Tuesday vaien further details of the accident were available that A. Frank Greene, president and treasurer of The A. F. Greene Co of this city was the driver of the car in which pr. Coles was riding. Also riding in the 'arge Packard touring car driven by MT. Greene was Eli Lague of Jewett City and Joseph c. Greene. brother of Mir. Greene. Mir. La<ue. ]. c. Greene and A. F. Greene escaped serious in jury. but the last named sustained a sprain~d 1 ack. It was also learned
 that Mrs. J. F. Rsab of Jersey City. | driver of the Dodge sedan that also figured in the accident. was not as se-
 riously injured as at first thought The other occupants of the sedan. NIT.
 Raab. Mir. and Mrs. Raymond H. Brown. Miss Viola Brown and the four months | old child of MT. and Mrs. Rasb. suffered minor bruises.
 | On Tuesday evening MT. Dix connect | ed. with Mir. Greene In the tire and au-
 toomible supply business here. said that he visited the scene of the accident | shortly after getting word from Mir. Greene. From investigations conduct
 ed by Mir. Dix and others who visited
 the place they claim that Mir Greene
 was entirely bameless for the accident
 and he did all possible to avoid the col lision Mir. Dix said that the accident
 occurred a wide right hand curve
 going in the direction in which the
 Greene car was proceeding. The Greene
 car as seen by Mir. Dix was about four
 feet off the road on the x'reme right
 with the Dodge car facing It. indtcat-
 iprw 4hAN IT, hoI nFF hn
 road to avoid the crash. 7he marks ir
 the road show where IT. Greene had
 locked his wheels and Al: them for a
 distance of IS feet and had then turned
 his machine directly into a bank off the
 road and from the condition of th'
 Packard car it seems to Mir. Dix thsi
 the Dodge crashed into the Greene cal
 after the car had hit the bank. Mir. DiI
 says the Packard is badly wrecked
 while the Dodge car. sustained much less damage showing, in his opin ion that it was the Dodge car that hi
 the Packard rather than the other va! around. for Id the Packard crashed
 Into the Dodge the Dodge would hav
 sustained much -nore damage by beini ! hit by the haNvier car. As Mir. Green was fugginH his right hand side on tn curve and NIT. Dix says positively tha the cars did not meet in the middle Q the road. MT Dix is of the opinion tha Mrs. Raah became confused when sh saw the Packard approach around in curve an1 lost control of her machine |, After tho accident Mir. Greene and hi 2 brother wefJ arrested by Deputy Sheri = Franl F. Woolley of Coventry and Con . stabe Jehosaphat Hebert and srraiEu i ed on a charge of onerating motor vs = hic'e while under the Influence of Ii l duor. Although arraiEned on thi 0 charge MT. Greene positively dnr'e ] that he was intoxicated and pe-E T
 who saw Mir. Greene shortly after th |. accident say that he was not under in 9 influence of liquor. It is thought ths d owing to Mir. Greene's dazed conditio 2 when first seen by the officers the thought that he was intoxicated.
 s Mir. Greene pleaded not guilty to tf = charge of intoxicalon and provide 4 bonds for his appearance at q hearir = to he held on October 2sth.
 . Dr. Coles who suffered a broken le
 arm. the loss of severai teeth and se'
 eral cuts was resting comfortably | - Tuesday evening. It is stated he "; ,, not thrown out of the car In the cras VI Mir. Greene was able to he un and abo
 on Tuesday evening. although his bat U was still painiug him.