Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-08
!. Callahan on Trial.

The Man Accused of Killing His Cousin
 ArrRigmed in the New Britain Police
 Court - Eight Witnesses ExamfnetE--
 Did Callahan Lie to the Dead Mans
 PareRtsS
 Cornelius Callahan was arraigned in the New Britain police court yesterday upon the charge of mnrdering his cousin, Cornelius J. Callahan, on the evening of Tuesday, Octo- ber 29, while they were riding upon the light ming express from Meriden to Hartford. Judge Chamberlain presided in the court. Hon. Samuel F. Jones, of Hartford, appeared ss counsel for the accused, and Prosecuting Attorney A. H. Pease for the State. The testimony of the witnesses examined was taken in shorthand writing by Lawyer John
 Walsh, of New Britain. Coroner Sperry
 came into the court room during the morn ing
 Patrick Nolan, of Newington, testified that
 on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 24,
 he was riding with three other workmen on a
 hand car. When about three-quarters of a
 mile north of Berlin at about o'clock in the
 afternoon they discovered the body of Cor nelius J. Callahan lying beside the railroad track. The witness gave detailed descrip-
 tion of the location and appearance of the body.
 Michael Cunningham, who was on the
 hand car with Nolan, corroborated the latters s statement.
 Hiram G. Loomis, civil engineer, of Hart
 ford, produced map of the locality where
 the body was found, and explained it's import to the court.
 Conductor Lester w. Hart of the fast ex-
 press stated that on Tuesday, October 22. the train left Meriden two minutes late, and was I,-- 1E an hour. The witness could not positively identify Callahan as one of the passengers on his train. Two young men bought tickets from Meriden shortly after the train left Mer- iden. They were in the smoking car. After collecting the fares he returned to the bag gage car and saw the two men on the rear platform of the smoking car. The counsel for the accused said he would admit that the men were the two Callahans. The witness said that he first learned that one of the men was missing at Windsor Locks. l John Lynch, brakeman, testified that at ] Meriden, when the fast express left there, l two men boarded the train and went into the
 smoking car. When the train reached Hart 1 ford a man went to him and asked if he had l seen anybody fall off. The witness thought l the prisoner was tho man who made the ln- | quiry, but could not positively identify him. Henry $. Griffin, of New York, the colored porter of the drawing-room car, said that Wn6n lA0 LEGIA GohCA0u CA- l tered the porter's hallway in his car and
 asked if he had seen strange man pass
 through. Without waiting for an answer
 the man said: Do you know we lost man | ct Berlin ?" The witness made no reply and Hthe man went away.
 1 Dr. Comings. medical examiner for New 1 Britain, described the wounds which he | found upon CalIahan's body.
 1 Otis c. Lackey, night locomotive dispatcher | at Hartford, said that he had had twenty-two
 years experience in railroading. It was not
 ct all unusual, he said, for shoes to be torn from the feet of men who had fallen from 1 rapidly moving trains. This he thought was
 so in the case of Callahan. It made no diff I ference how the shoes were fastened to the
 feat. Whether laced or not, they were usual l ly torn off.
 l After a recess Ava W. Hall, of Meriden, 1 was called. He said he was riding in the
 smoking car of the train. He saw man ! cross the platform and look through the win doE of the smoking car. Then he came and
 stood up in the aisle where he remained
 standing until the train reached Hartford. I The man looked closely at the passengers and | in the water closet, but spoke to no one. He thought the prisoner was the man. 1 The dead mans father and mother testified. l The latter was the most important testimony yet. She said that the prisoner came to her | house excited, and told her that in the l car asked him why his cousin was gone so
 long, and he went to look for him. He could
 not find him and so told the conductor. They | searched the car, also asked the colored DOT | ter if he had seen him. He said he had seen l him aud given him 8 cigar. MT. Hart says he did not know of tho cir cumstance until the train reached Windsor Locks, and the porter says he did not see l Callahan till the train reached Hartford. Mr. Hall says Callahan stood up in the ! aisle and spoke to no one.
 If the story of the mother is true the &C., cused lied to his parents