From "St. Thomas Daily Times", Thursday, November 22, 1906

          MARRIED MEN; CHORUS GIRLS

          Members of Tom Cooper's Fatal Auto Party - Third Man Who Escaped Unhurt is Known

        A New York despatch says:  The body of Tom Cooper was sent to his home in Detroit by 
        L.B.F.Munger, a professional rider.  Helen Lambert, who was injured in the smash-up, is not 
        expected to live.

        Coroner Shrady announced that he has learned the name of the third man who was in the auto 
        when Cooper and Daniel Barkalow were killed and who fled to save his reputation.

        "The man is married and of  a wealthy family and did not wish them to know he was one of the 
        merry auto party that ended so disastrously" said Coroner Shrady.  "I have obtained his name 
        and address and he will be compelled to appear at the inquest.  It is impossible for me to disclose 
        his name just now.  It was not very chivalrous of him to desert his friends."

        Miss Levick first gave her own name as Virginia Vernon and Miss Lambert's as Helen Hall.  Later on 
        she gave their real names and told who was in the party.  Miss Levick denies that she and Cooper 
        were married, but did not object to it being understood that they were engaged to marry.  Miss Levick 
        is a chorus girl; a tall, good-looking blonde.  |She was painfully hurt and may be crippled for life.  
        Her left leg was crushed above the knee and the knee-cap was injured.  She was thrown clear of
        the automobile, landing twenty-five feet ahead.

        She said there were five persons in the machine and that Howard. T. Alexander, a weathy oil dealer 
        and a director of the Battery Park National Bank, was the fifth member of the party.

       "I was in the front seat with Tom" said Miss Levick, "while Helen was in the tonneau with Mr. Alexander 
       and Mr. Barkalow.  None of us had drunk anything to speak of, and Tom had not had a drop.  He never drank.  
       We wanted to go fast and were not afraid, because Tom never was a reckless driver".

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