New Britain herald., 1927-08-15

!, he got the car and who owned 1t was Never mind. get in" Tanner said he fell asleep soon after the party left New Haven, after having been to Hartford. The car did not l, stop between New Haven and the scene of the fatality.
 Miss Lopes told the police she was sitting beside Loving and the others were in the rear seat She said there had been no liquor consumed. Offi- cer Grabeck found marks on the pavement indicating that the car started to skid about 92 feet from the pole. Officer Bloomquist learned from Albert Rauelus of Berlin, Fred Dery of the Capital Buick Co. of Arch street and Thomas Doty of Ber- lin that they were in a car behind the one driven by Loving, from Mer- iden to New Britain, and they were thrilled by the sight of the car sway ing from side to side and striking a number of pipes which were lined along the roadside.
 The crash occurred when the car ran over the curbstone, Loving's head being crushed against the pole. In all probability, he, did not have sufficient time to realize that he was facing death, the authorities believe The car came to a stop a few feet from the fruit stand in front of the store on the Nesta property. Miss Lopes and the occupants of the rear seat were thrown with great force and their escape without fatal in- juries is considered remarkable. Suspected Car Was Borrowed There will be no prosecution of any of the principals, it was said to- day by the police, as Loving, the only member of the party against whom a charge could be made, was killed. Had he lived he would have been charged with taking an auto mobile without the owners permis- sion. Although his companions sus- pected, according to their statements to the police. that he had taken the car without the owners permission. they did not know who owned it or the circumstances surrounding Lov- ing's coming into possession of it.
 Sergeant Stadler notified Prose- cutting Attorney Woods of the acci- dent and the latter communicated with Mir. Wrinkle, giving the latter his first report. MT. Wrinkle said to- day steps were being taken to com- pensate Mr. Woods for the loss of the car.
 Miss Annie FitzMaurice of this city narrowly escaped being another vic tim of an automobile fatality in West Haven on the Milford Turnpike yesterday afternoon when machine which she was driving towards Mill ford. was sideswiped by another driven by Harry F. McCabe. aged S6 years, of liz Plymouth street, New Haven. The force of the impact sent the FitzMaurice car through a fence and it rolled down a bank. No one was injured ill the accident.
 Miss FitzMaurice claimed that the stop and that two men riding in 1t, leaped out of it and ran away. She stated that it was travelling along the road in a zizzard manner leading her to believe that the driver must have been intoxicated.
 Police who investigated the affair. found that the automobile in which the men were riding, was one from a Drive Yourself Agency" They traced the car to McCabe and his ar rest followed. He was charged with evasion of responsibility.
 McCabe claimed that he was not driving the car at the time of the crash but said that man from New Jersey by the name of Martin was al the wheel. Miss FitzMaurice's car was not badly damaged but the other is in nrrd Of many renairs. McCabe l was released under s200 bail