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Show BENJAMINS. CADEE IS! KILLED INAUTO MIX IPSWICH. Maaa. Sept. 27. Benjamin Stickeny Cable of Washington, assistant secretary of commerce and labor under President Taft, waa crushed to death in a colli Kton between two automobiles on tho Newbury port turnpike today. His companion, Richard T. Crane, Jr., of Chicago, Chi-cago, a summer resident of this town, was cut and bruised, hut escaped serious injury. In the other automobile Mrs. David L. Edsall of Boston suffered a broken leg. Her husband. Dr. Ed sail, a member of, the public health council of this state and a professor on the staff of the Harvard Medical school, was unhurt with the exception ex-ception of a few cuts and bruises. The two cars came together at a dangerous corner, five miles from here. Neither Mr. Crane, who was driving his runabout, with Mr. Cable beside him, nor Dr. Ed sail, who was at the wheel of his touring car, heard the warning signals of the other machine. The runabout was hurled across the road. Mr. Crane was thrown clear of the car. but Mr. Cable was pinned underneath un-derneath In such a way that death prob- j ably was instantaneous. Mrs. Edsall was hurled from the rear seat and sustained a broken leg. Mr. Cable had been a guest for some ; time at the Crane summer home on the north shoVe. When the mishap occurred I he was on his way to lunch with Mr. Crane in Newburyport. Mr. Cable was prominent in legal circles cir-cles In Chicago and In Washington, where he had made his home lately. He was named assistant secretary of commerce and labor by president Tarft in lJK'j. |