New Britain herald., 1927-10-29
M. H. FOX KILLED
 EXAMINING WRECK
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 was dressed in cloth coat or sweat
 CT, came forward when the officer
 asked for the driver. Jordan said
 he did not SC the overturned car and
 the officers light, and he would
 stand arrest. Meanwhile, Slime had
 walked away from the scene of the
 the driver of the speeding car was
 wearing a leather coat, and he was
 fatality, after showing his registra- . tion and at West Hartford was i picked up by q woman in an auto
 mobile, and she drove him 10 his
 home.
 At police headquarters, Scrseants
 r. A. McAvay and M. J. Flynn, ob-
 taining statements from Crowley and 1 others concerned, prepared one for l Jordan 10 sign. He read it through | and was about to sign 1t when he i inquired casually the nature of the | charge on which he was 10 be held.
 When told that AIr. Fox had died and the charge therefore was man. i slaughter he refused to sign the statement saying Slime was driving and would have to shoulder the re- sponsiblity. If it was just reckless driving, I'd stand for it. but man. slaughter is something else," he is said to have told the police.
 Slime Arrested In Bed Early this morning, Slime was taken from his bed by Hartford po- lice, and Sergeant McAvay and Offi- cer Harper went 10 the Hartford police station and brought him to the local headquarters, where he made a statement over his signature and in the presence of witnesses, in which he said he was driving to- wards Hartford with Ralph Beauprc of Willow street. Harttord: Martin Rohan of Willow street, Hartford; James Connors of Asylum avenue. Hartford; Thomas Whalen of Willow street, Hartford, and Jordan. He was not driving faster than B or 40 miles an hour as he went around Glllctc's corner, he said, and when he saw the black object in the road, which was the overturned car. he did not have time 10 avoid striking it. II was nervous after the crash and l did not know what to do," he said. Jordan came over to me and told me to brace up, and everything | was going to be all right He said 1 he would say he was driving and l would not have to be in it. When 1 the officer called for the owner Of | the car l showed my registration l and then l went away. After the ! woman picked me up in West Hart, 1 ford she drove so reClllessly l was l sorry l did not walk all the way. l ! did not mean to run away but I I realized I could not do anything. 50 | went home and went to sleep" l
 Milton Schlossberg told the police ! he was sitting with Weinberg and ! saw the Crowley car coming in the 1. opposite direction. Sensing the dan ger, he called to Weinberg to pull to the right, hoping to avoid the collision. The next instant there was a crash and the Weinberg car was overturned.
 Witnesses Tell of Shines Speed
 Joseph M. Quinn of 10l Wylls street, Hartford. and Harry LaBoie of 1S5 Pearl street. Hartford stop ped their car at sight of the Crow ley and Weinberg accident, and while they were there, they heard Sline's car coming at a rate of speed which they said was between 50 and GO miles an hour. LaBoie told the police the rear end of the overturned car struck Mr. Fox.
 Edward r. Crowley said he was in the rear seat of Thomas A. Crow Iey's car and the speed was about 25 miles an hour. He saw the lights of tho Weinberg car and then there was crash and he was thrown 1 with great force against the front seat. He got out and was looking It the wreckage when Slincs car came along and crashed into Vein )erg's car.
 Thomas A. Crowley, Jr, said he vas on the right side of the high way and Weinberg's car sidcswiped ( lis car, causing the collision. His , ar was turned completely about but lid not turn over.
 Policeman Near Death
 Officer Tarper said today he has / lever had so narrow an escape from leath as he experienced when Sline's ar bore down upon him. He did , lot think the car would pass his ignal, so he remained in the cen CT of the highway until safety de- : handed that he jump out of it's :, 'ath. simon Burras, who was with ,, Weinberg, also stayed in the high lay until he was almost struck, only
 quick leap down the cmbankment , aving him from Mr. Fox's fate. .
 Had Mir. Fox obeyed q request of z lis wife, he would not have left his a ar. it was learned today. As hc 'ulled up near the wreckage, Mrs 'oX asked him to drive on but he cit it his duty to ascertain whether r not he could be of any assist nee. He had been out of the car l. nly minute or two when he was ( truck. Mrs. Fox was overcome II y grief and shock, while Mir. and ITS. Greenberg were dazed by the uddenness of the fatality.
 A minute before Mir Fox was fa- {. ally injured he remarked 10 Po- S ceman Harper, Its a good thing l