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Show 'woolen ws son is killed 'Dead Man's Curve' In Bay State Scene of Speeding Crashes I RE iiNi. Mass . a ik ic William M Wood. Jr.. son -f William A Wood, president i tne American Woolen cumpanv. and Alex Gardner - x.M-tl. And. w-re Instantly kiii.-d Tuesday vvhen their automo-. automo-. ;lf.cr d.muli hlnK two other cars Of the Iteadlnx-Andnvei houlcvard . ear tuls town, crashed Into a tele-gr-tph pole Paul RlOf Of Shawsli.cn illaKe, tlv third occupant of th.- HUHMimbll. hurled '0 feet into a swamp. H escaped with a broken rib. TW OARS BM M1M The men were killed :it a point known locally 4as "Dead Man s curve." which has been tin scene of a number of motor accidents In recent years I Acordlngr to th. police ol Residing, Wood nud Gardner w-.-r driving a heavy car at a high rate of speed They passed through Keudlng Square! . nd went down tlir boulevard toward Andover, side by side, with another big car, the police declared. At the curve, half m mile from Heading Square, Woods automobile overtook a mailer machine, struck It and reduced re-duced It to Juuk. Edward Bruckett of Wakefield, and Samuel Ramsey of Med ford, the occupants of the ear were thrown clear of Ihe roadway, ' uoi Ij Miiferlng from fractured limbs They were, taken to a hospital at Winchester. Win-chester. Another car he.ideu In Ihe direction of Reading was stopped by the wayside. way-side. The Wood automobile crashed InlO this also, smashing It. Charles McCarthy, bi Dorchester, and John 1 I.--in. of Bomon. seated In this ma-chlne. ma-chlne. w.-re shaken up but not seriously ser-iously injured. Wood's ear then left the road and plunged into the telegraph pole Young Wood and Gardner were hureldl 6gjlnl the pole and crushed BRINGS lioiM HOME. ANDOVER, Mass.. Aug l r. William M Wood, presldeui ..f ihe American oo!'.-n compunj. returned '. his home here with ti.- bodj his son. William M. Jr. win. w.ts. kllie.i in an au' omobile accident .it Heading William M Wood. J r who was 30 yeuio old. was married seven vears ago to Miss Edith Robinson of Louisville, k Mr? Wood left their children at Kenneburikporl. Maine, where she hud' been spending li.e .summer and cams to lawrence bv seaplane, completing the Journey here by automobile. I our ears ag . Wood succeeded his uncle, Frederick Aver, us director and first vi.e presid.nt of the company, later resigning the vlc presidency to go into business as a wool broker. |