The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-06-01
Wayne Stewart Came Into
Highway Rolling an 1
Iron Tire
BOSTON CAR DRIVEN
BY S. R. ROMANIA
Officers and Others Con-
slider Accident as
Unavoidable

Encumbered with a large iron tire
which he was rolling as a hoop. Wayne
Stewart of Vernon boy nine years old,
ran in front of an automobile near the
railroad culvert near the Whithed place
in Vernon at 6.1S o'clock last evening and
was struck by the car and Killed. lie was
thrown 10 feet or more against a small
tree on the east side of the main high
way and his neck was broken
The car was an Oldsmobile driven by
Samuel r. Romania of Boston, and
with him was J. Tallmadge, wholesale
manager of the Boston Oldsmobile Co,
New England distributors. of $40 Com
mOnwealth avenne Boston Mr.. Ro-
mania was unneryed by the accident,
which all agree was unavoidable. and
MIR. Iallmadge drove the car from there
TO Boston. Mr. Taflmadge came to Brat
tleboFo yesterday morning on business at
\. f. Roberts's local agency and left late
in the afternoon for Boston. r
As the car was being driven up the
hill toward the Whithed place and was
rounding a curve three children, one of
whom was the Stewart boy, suddenly
came into the highway from a road which
runs under the railroad and joins the
main road on the west side 1t is a blind
distance. The car was running at the
moderate speed of about % miles an
hour.
The hoop which the Stewart boy was
rolling was a heavy tire about an inch
and n half in width and taller than the
boy The lad was unable to stop the
hoop. on account of its momentum. and
tried TO get across the road Mr. Romania
at the same time trying to avoid striking
hIm but having practically, no oppor-
tunity to do 50 on account of the two
other children who were but a few feet
behind the Stewart child
Several persons saw the accident. and
1t seemed TO them as well as to the occu-
pants of the car that The machine first
hit the tire and turned it so that it
threw the boy against the left fender
from which he was hurled against the
tree There were practically no bruises
on the boy except back of one ear. The
machine went % PAGES beyond the point
of the accident
The boy had attended a supper in
Union church with his sister. Mrs. Ray
mORd Fairman, with whom he lived, in
the first house to the left after going
from the main road and passing through
the railroad underpass. Instead of go
ing directly home the boy went to the
DaSture to lead a COW home while Mrs
Fairman continued down the hill north
from the scene of the accident to the
home of Merton Fairman.
After the Stewart boy had taken the
COW home, accompanied by two children
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Merton Fairman How
ard. aged 9. and Margaret, aged T. he got
his tire hoop and the three started for
Merton Fairman's and had gone but a
few rods when the fatality occurred
! Howard Fairman barely escaped being
hit and his sister was but a few feet
away.
At the time of the accident Mrs. Hat
tie Baker. who lives in the brick house
few rods to the north. on the east side
of the main road. was sitting in the yard
while Harry Mcdonald. who lives there,
and r. @. Heath and several other men
who room there while doing work for the
department of agriculture, were sitting
on the veranda. All saw the boy struck
ana Mr.. Heath ran and lifted him up
and took him into Mrs. Bakers house
The car stopped as quickly as possible
and the two occupants, who were much
grieVed, offered to do anything possible
then or at any other time
Raymond Fairman. who is EMPLOYED
in the Connecticut River Power Co.'S
power plant, was sent for and others
quickly gathered. Selectman A. G. Barnes
was notified and he notified States At
torney Harold f.. Whitney The latter
called Sheriff Frank L. Wellman and
the two went to Vernon at once and in
terYiewed all who saw the accident 1t
was their opinion that the accident was
unavoidable and that the circumstances
did not call for holding either Mr.. Ro-
mania or Mr.. Tallmadge but their state
mentS were taken.
DIR. William J. Kaine of this place was
called. also Undertaken Bond, and the
body was brought to Bonds undertaking
rooms here
Wayne Stewart was born in Albany
Vt.) June Il, 1911. a son of Charles u.
and Myrtle (I1ldridgel Stewart His
hnr. IiaJ
Albany, after which the lad came to
Vernon to live with his sister. Mildred.
wife of Raymond Fairman His father is
employed in Windsor Besides these two
he leaves sister, Lola, who attends the
Windsor high school. and a brother.
Roland who lives in New Jersey.
The father came here from Windsor
this morning and left with the body ON
the 1927 train for Albany. where the
funeral and burial viii take place.