The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-09-01
DETAILS OF
FATAL WRECK
AT STANSTEAD
Homer c. ingalls, Ques'
toned by Canadian
Authorities

debted to the Stanstead Journal
for the following very complete
and accurate account of the auto
mobile accident at StanStead We'd
nesday night. A Journal reporter
was one of the first on the scene
of the accident and interviewed
those who witnessed and took part
| in it. With commendable enter
prise the Journal got the story into
its regular edition and kindly for
warded a copy of the paper to the
Caledonian-Record.
The account of the accident fol-
lows:
One man fatally injured, two
Others badly cut up about the head
and three or four more bruised,
some with a few facial cuts, is the
result of a motoring accident on
the Boundary Highway, a mile or
two north of Stanstead just before
dark Wednesday night.
Yesterday Leroy E. Burns, Will
liam P McGee and Leo Landrigan,
all of Berlin, n. H., with Patrick
A. Shevlin of Grovetton, n. H., all
| electricians employed in the Brown
Company's Cascade Mills at Berlin
borrowed a Ford car from James
McCale of that place, and at about
2 .. M, started for the Sherbrooke
fair. They reached this place early
in the evening and, after reporting
at the Canadian customs, proceed
! ed on the way north, the collision
occurred at the Ives place, now
owned by A. H. Moore.
The other car was a Franklin
owned by Homer H. Ingalls, who
owns a farm at PassumpSic and
was engaged in the A. l.. Bailey
| music store at st. Johnsbury. Lew
is F. King, who works on the In
gals farm, and under whose license
the car was being driven, and Les
lie Thomas, another farm hand in
the employ of Ingalls, were with
the last named when the accident
happened. The Ford car carried
New Hampshire license number
13643, the Franklin, Vermont Ii
cense number 22643. The first
story to reach this place was to
! the effect that the Franklin, cut
ting around another big car also
running south, came upon the Ford
unseen, but this is not verified by
! the least injured occupants of the
Ford, who say the Franklin was in
! plain sight well up the road. 1t
kept to the right side of the road,
they say, until within a hundred
feet from them then cutting across
to the wrong side, WIN it was too
late for the Ford to escape. The
tracks showed that the Ford was
almost in the ditch on its own side
of the road, when the collision took
! place. The place where the two
cars came together was almost di-
rectly in front of the Moore resi-
dence. When the Journal man
reached the scene, Ingalls, was
stretched out on the side piazza,
while Thomas lay on a blanket in
/ front of the house, both being
1 practically dead to the world. The
latter had partially severed ear
and other injuries about the head.
! Ingalls, wa sin a deep stupor, but
with no outward indications of ser
ious injury First aid had been rem
dered by the local physicians.
King was taken into custody by
Policeman Clark and conveyed to
the Rock Island lookup. He was
somewhat disfigured and was
bleeding from minor facial injuries
Burns the driver of the Ford, and
Shevlin, who sat on the driver
side in the rear seat, were taken to
the office of Dr. H. ?. Stockwell,
where first aid was rendered. In
the case of Shevlin no hope was
held out from the first, as his skull
had been smashed in at the top and
front of the head. Buns was iniur-
ed much less than his unfortunate
companion, and later, after being
bandaged up, was able to occupy
a seat with G.. 7. Amcs, who drove
his Cadillac through to Sherbrookc.
On the rear seat sat Ingalls, with
DR., G.. +. Waldron, the former hav-
ing been sufficiently aroused to as
sumo "a sitting posture. ID. j. San
dilands was also of the party.
Shelvin and Thomas were taken
to Sherbrooke in the Audinwood
ambulance, DR.. h. p. Stockwel ac-
companying them. The ambulance
was driven by c. Z. Audinwod, ac-
ompanied on the drivers seat by
Al Gibson. Shevlin died in the
Sherbrooke Hospital at about half
past eleven, something like half
an hour after arrival there. Before
he was placed in the ambulance the
last rites of the Roman Catholic
church had been performed by the
Rev. Father Matthew, at DR.. Stock
wells office. Shelvin was the father
of five young children.
To the Journal man at the scene
of the wreck McGee, who sat with
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