- A Southwick Time Machine archival discovery. On November 10, 1915, 25-year-old William H. Semke of Southwick, Massachusetts, was operating a 14-inch circular saw at the Southwick Road home of his employer, Harry A. Hescock, in neighboring Westfield. Without warning, the blade broke loose from the machinery and struck Semke on the left side of his head. It shattered his skull, laid bare his brain, cut across the scalp at the left temple, and severed part of his nose. He was taken to nearby Noble Hospital, but despite doctors' best efforts, he died there roughly twelve hours later. An inquest into Semke’s death concluded that gross carelessness on his part was the cause. Thirty-seven years later, on Tuesday morning, November 4, 1952, the man who had employed him met a sudden end of his own. Harry A. Hescock entered his polling station in Westfield to cast his vote. He was handed his ballot but collapsed almost immediately afterward, never marking it. He was pronounced dead on arriv...