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GIRL KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT 
Two Others Injured When Car Crashes Through Wall and Turns Tur- 
tle Over Embankment on Smith’s Point, Manchester. 
Miss Helen Bean of Melrose met 
an untimely end Wednesday after- 
noon, when an aw omobile in which 
she was riding turned turtle over 
a steep embankment on Black’s 
hill, Smith’s Point, Manchester. 
She was instantly killed, while two 
other occupants of the car escaped 
with only slight injuries. 
The car, a 1912 Jackson five pas- 
senger model, was owned by George 
A. Ramsdell, 26, of Malden. Riding 
with Ramsdell were Miss Bessie 
Emerson of Malden and Miss Bean. 
They were sight-seeing by automo- 
bile along the North Shore, and 
their wanderings took them _ to 
Smith’s Point, and over the private 
road circling that portion of Smith’s 
Point, where the accident occurred. 
Miss Emerson was driving and it is 
said that Ramsdell was sitting on 
the back seat with Miss Bean. As 
they passed the Rockwell estate 
Ramsdell inquired from Enoch 
Crombie where the road would take 
them and upon being informed they 
proceeded on their way. Less than 
100 yards beyond they left the road 
and passed through the private 
drive-way of the George N. Black 
estate and out onto the road again. 
The steep hill at this point is 
made doubly dangerous for motor- 
ing because of the sharp curve in 
the road. No eye witness has been 
found who ean explain how the ac- 
cident occurred, but it is supposed 
that unfamiliarity with the road 
brought the driver to a_ difficult 
position and when the brake was 
applied the car probably skidded 
slightly on the gravel drive and it 
is thought one of the wheels might 
have struck one of the boulders by 
the roadside, causing it to skid the 
more. It is further said that only 
one of the brakes was working. 
At all events the car plunged 
through the heavy stone wall and 
over the roadside with its three pas- 
sengers. [Had it not turned turtle 
and were it not for the heavy 
growth of underbrush the machine 
might have plunged down the fifty 
feet or more to the water of Lobster 
Cove below. Miss Bean was terribly 
erushed by the impact and her neck 
was broken. She died instantly. 
Cries for aid from Mr. Ramsdell 
and Miss Emerson brought servants 
from the George N. Black house, 
and a number of workmen em- 
ployed in the vicinity. The couple 
were rescued from their position 
with difficulty. Ramsdell escaped 
with a sprained ankle and shght 
scratches about the face, while Miss 
Kmerson suffered nothing worse 
than a nervous shock and minor 
euts. One of her arms was wrenched, 
but not broken. Miss Emerson is 
19 and Miss Bean was about 20. 
The latter had recently been a stu- 
dent at Tilton Seminary, at Tilton, 
N-H. 
After the aecident Miss Kmerson 
and Mr. Ramsdell were taken to the 
home of Richard Stone of Boston, 
nearby, where Dr. G. W. Blaisdell 
attended to their injuries. The body 
of Miss Bean was removed to the 
stable of Mr. Black, where it was 
viewed by Medical Inspector Stick- 
ney of Beverly. It was later taken 
to an undertaking establishment in 
Beverly. 
The accident happened about one 
o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Miss 
Emerson’s parents have a cottage 
at Asbury Grove, Hamilton, for the 
summer. 
Chief of Police Converse was 
quickly at the seene of the accident 
and he immediately notified the 
medical inspector. 
The automobile was not badly 
broken up by the accident. In fact, 
yesterday when it was lifted baek 
into the road and righted, it was in 
such eondition that it could be 
towed by another car to a garage. 
SWAMPSCOTT 
Miss Mildred Bond, daughter of 
Mrs. Charles H. Bond of Boston 
and Swampscott, was a passenger 
from Europe on the incoming Cun- 
ard liner Laconia. 
MARBLEHEAD NECK 
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Shuman 
and their two sons of Boston, are 
at their Marblehead Neck cottage 
for the season. 
Notable additions to the Anglo- 
American coterie in Paris are Mrs. 
William F. Draper and Miss Mar- 
garet Preston Draper, who are pass- 
ing several weeks at the Bristol. 
Mrs. Draper and her daughter have 
arranged to return to America in 
July. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Bement of 
the Beverly Farms colony gave a 
recent luncheon at the Myopia Hunt 
club for Mr, and Mrs. Gillespie 
(Christie Mae Donald, the actress). 
The party of 10 were dinner guests 
the same evening of Mr. and Mrs. 
Ki. R. Spaulding at West Manehes- 
ter. The guests also included Miss 
Pfaff, Mrs. Bement’s niece, Nathan- 
iel S. Simpkins, Mr. Lewis and 
Kvans Spaulding. 
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Ambassador Curtis Guild, who 
has returned to America for a short 
visit from St. Petersburg, has ar- 
rived in Boston from Washington 
for a brief stay. He was warmly 
welcomed by hosts of friends and 
will be much entertained while in 
town. Mrs. Guild is in Berlin, 
where she was joined by her sister, 
Mrs. John Lavalle of 853 Marlboro 
street, just previous to the depart- 
ure of Ambassador Guild for New 
York. Hon. Mr. Guild will sail from 
New York for St. Petersburg, 
June 4, 
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Mrs. W. Murray Crane and her 
children have left Washington for 
their country home in Dalton, where 
they are now domiciled for the sum- 
mer. Mrs. Crane is a sister of Miss 
Mabel Boardman of Washington 
and Manchester. 
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