The New York herald., 1921-12-03
BOOTLEG CAR HITS
AMBULANCE, KILLING
7W0,HURTINGSE SEVEN
Automobile Headed for San
itarium Smashed at Con-
necticut Curve.
REEKING WITH LIQUOR
Three Women. Nurse and
Two Patients Are Taken
to Hospital.
GO AT TERRIFIC SPEED
Several Men Involved in Pre-
viOus Cases Of Illicit
Whiskey Traffic.
GO AT TERRIFIC SPEED

Special Despatch to THE New York HERALD.
NoRwALK, Conn.,, Dec. 2.-An auto
mobile owned by Dr. David w. Nc
Farlsnd, in which his assistant, George
w. Dilworth, was taking a nurse and
two patients from New York to the
physicians sanitarium, was struck by
a large touring car on the Post road
near here this afternoon. Dilworth
and John Zacherino. or Accarino, of
Brooklyn, who was in the other ma
chine, were so badly hurt that they
died tonight, and three women and
four men are in the Norwalk Hospital
injured.
According to the Norwalk authorities
the car which hit DIR. McFarland's ma
chine was driven by Harry Ferguson Of
Brooklyn. Others in 1t besides Zache-
rino were Angelo Mace, a Westport
saloon keeper whose place has been
raided by prohibition enforcement au-
thorities several times; Fred Roberto. a
Norwalk jitney driver who is under in
dictment for carrying concealed
weapons and who has been accused OF
bootlegging by the police, and Ella
Natolitano OF Norwalk. Mace and Fer
guson have been arrested. charged with
reckless driving. and their machine is
being held for the Coroner. In the car,
the Norwalk police said. they found a
quart bottle of whiskey. while the odor
OF liquor was noticeable all over the
ma chins
Dilworth had left New York earlier in
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and two patients, Miss Sarah Schuyler
and Mrs. John Waldman of New York
The three women were cut and bruised,
but at the hospital it was said that they
had not been seriously hurt. Both Mace
and Ferguson were badly hurt, but
physicians said they probably would
recover. The others were only slightly
injured. Both cars were badly dam
aged.
The accident occurred on Nash's
curve. where many fatal wrecks have
taken place. A few years ago car
load Of Bridgeport Sunday school chill
dren, returning from a picnic struck
another machine and twelve were killed
About month later Il machine over
turned while making the turn and two
were killed. Mace. who is held by the
police as partly responsible for to-day's
accident. killed a child on a Danbury
road about year ago. The NorwallI
authorities said that the car in which
he and the others were riding to-day
was being driven at more than sixty
miles an hour when It hit the machine
driven by Dilworth.
Since the accident In which two men
were killed a string of lights has been
on the turn every night To-dsy's acci-
dent. however. occurred before dark.
Dilworth died before he was able to tell
the police how the accident occurred. but
The police say that Ferguson was drv-
ing the touring car recklessly and dis
regarded the approach Of the Mcfarland
machine.
The Norwalk police said that the num-
Der Of the machine in which the five
men were riding was 39561 n. Y. This
number Is registered in New York as
that of Hudson touring car owned by
Joseph DE Rosa of 40 Woodruff street.
Brooklyn. De Rosa. who runs restau-
rant at that address. said he owned the
machine in partnership with a man
whose name he could not spell but which
he said sounded like Ockerino. This is
believed to be the dead man. Zacherfio
or Accarino. His partner, DE Rosa said,
was In business somewhere in New
York. but he did not know in what sort
n.