New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-12-09
The Street Car Co,lisisn-vcrdict Of tho

The inonisiton in the case of the boy William
O. Callahan was continued yesterday morning al On"
Fifteenth Precinct station House Inc o0I Wy, ,Ss
father was not examined. The following testmon
was then given;
I live on the southeast corner Of Fourthave. and
Twenty.ninthst III am clerk in the employ Of Adams
Express Company; was not in the Ihirdaye cer;
O. What do you know of the occurreneet A. l have
charge of eastward freight; my orders are To foi
low the last to Twenty seyehth-st tbs leaves az
7:l5p NJ; saw the driver; do not think he was
under the influence of liquor on the night IN question
followed the freight car; at the junction We were
third of block ahead / turned around 10 see II q
Thrdave. car coming; the Third.aye cars gen
QUO came very near striking the tail end OF my wagon:
saw Thrd-aye. car coming: and looked at tina
freight car: the leaders then 10 or 70 feet irom
the crossings then looked at Thrdave. to see the
driver would break; ha did not. but whipped ny
his horses; / then heard some one sing, oua
Hold on the driver OF my wagon called out Ihe5es
smash" turned to him and heard smash; didne
see IL occur but the result moment aiter IL dam
aged the freight slightly scratching some paint on
the forward end; turned back to take out the uunka
and safes told the freight driver to 60 on II hd
could some one said. Don't start the car. there 10
some one under it," looked under the car and nearly
touched the head Of man which lay UNDER the body
was between the two forward wheels one had gong
over him; told the driver 70 turn his horses ana pull
out the pin; heard the driver threaencd the passen
and people pSss nass nun Spa a ms we Vac
two blocks; saw the light of the Thrdaye. car a
least hundred feet from the switch; the freight oa1
was only fifteen twenty: the little was going az
very fast rate, the freight at walk; think II
the Thirdave. driver had broken up the collision
would have been avoided.
TESTIMONY OF DAVID ARMSTRONG.
live in Niney6rstst., between Third and Fourth
ayes was in tie employ of the Fourhavc Railroad Co
as foreman until last May; know William Haskins.
the driver OF the freight car; be drove for me two
months; he drank sometimes; 1 never saw him 80
much under the influence Of liquor that he could not
attend TO his business; discharged him once but re.
nstated him time after were short Of drivers,
| and he was very good man. only little contrary.
REBUTTING TESTIMONY.
John Quinn and James McAdam testified that Has
kius the driver Of the freight ear not In the habit
of getting drunk and that they him the night in
question and nothing was the matter with him.
Cornelius Folsom, foreman at Forty second.s, tess
tiled that he saw him ct O'Clock p. IN, and he was
| sober.
The Superintendent the Harlem and Third Avenue
Railroads were then examined but there appeared
nothing definite in their testimony save that the drv-
ers we're left to use their own discretion. 80.
After IS minutes the jury brought In the following
verdict.
| VERDICT OF THE JURY.
The deceased William OCnlIahan. came to his death
nv being run over the night Of 9Th OF December
Fourt6 ave car which came in collision with pes-
senoer.car of the Third-ave Railroad Company; apd
nd that the drivers Of both cars and also the con-
ductor OF the Third car were guilty Of cupsbie
IN not exercising proper precauton 70
vont nch eoision-especaly in the OF the dnver
80 az Third ave- car We further find that the proc-
cs If RAINING freighcars through the city without
,;sSt At night Is highly dangerous.
Tbe two drivers and conductor were held BY Coroner
4 Collin 10 await the action Of the Grand Jury.