The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-28
THE TESTIMONY ALL In.
SIXTY WITNESSES EXAMINED ON
THE ST. NICHOLAS CASE.

| Commissioner Christy Closes the Ex-
animation. and the stenographers
go to Work on Their Notes.-The Re-
cord the Most Voluminous Ever
Taken on Single Case.
The taking of testimony in the St Nicho-
las damage suits before Commissioner
Christy came to an ending last night, and
the commissioner left for CrawfordvilIe,
where he is called as court stenographer for
the superior court of the Northern circuit,
and Mr.. Leaken, Of COUNSEL for the steam
boat, left for Atlanta to attend a case in
the supreme court.
Joe Williams, the missing deck hand, was
found IN Goat alley yesterday, and was
called for the steamboat company. Will
Jams was helper in the pilot house the night
OF the collision. He testified yesterday that
the stenographer had not correctly reported
him in the hearing before the United States
inspectors of hulls and boilers as to the po-
sition of the lights on the bridge. He says
that he saw the lights as Capt. Boulineau
saw them-a red light on the western abut-
ment or draw, and a bright Light in the
middle Of the draw.
sUPT. COBB ON THE STAND.
r. E. Cobb was called by libelants in
rebuttal to explain the usual position of
the bridge lights, which, he said, are red
light on the eastern end of the draw and a
red light on the western end Of it, which in
dictate that the draw is closed; a red light
on the center of the draw and red light
on the western abutnent indicate that the
bridge is open for the night, and when a
boat wants to go through and they open
the bridge for it the two red lights range
north and south.
James ID. Donelan and Jeremiah Murphy,
two members of the coroner's jury which
held the inquest over the bodies of the two
colored women killed outright, were called
| to testify as to what David Jenkins, the
colored bridgetender, testified to at the in
| quest. Murphy testified that jenkins swore
at the inquest that there were only two
| lights on the bridge on the night Of the ac-
| cident, white light and a red one, and
| that he gave the red light to his assistant,
John Brown, to flag the train, and that
jenkins said he kept the white light, with
| which he tried to wave the st. Nicholas
down, having given the red light to Brown
before the collision.
Donelan testified that Murphy is mistaken !;
| that Jenkins swore before the coroner's
jury that there were two red lights and one
white light Both Murphy and Donelan
testified that there were some things that
are not in the cOroner's record which the
witness swore to, and some things are in the
record which they have no recollection of
having heard stated at the inquest.
A BIG RECORD.
Commission Christy will hardly complete
his record before May, as it is very volumin-
GUS. John Fleming Jr., the stenographer
for hbelants, says that the testimony taken
fills eighteen books Of 158 pages each, or
2,S44 pages of stenographer's notes.
The examination was, in many respects,
interesting, having developed many humor-
Gus incidents. Objections and exceptions
were numerous on both sides, and there
We're some tart passages-at-arms between
opposing counsel. The examination, which
began Feb. l, occupied month, lacking a
day. The testimony of forty libelants was
taken, with the testimony of physicians
and uninjured excursionists on the
side of the plaintiffs, and there
were sixteen witnesses examined
for the steamboat company. The
libelants were represented by T. P. Raw
enel, A. II. MacDonell, w. E. Morrison, aud
Henry McAlpin. Mr.. Ravenel being leading
counsel, and the steamboat by r. r. Rich
ards and w. r. Leaken, the latter directing
the principal part of the direct testimony
for defendant and the cross xamintion of
witnesses for ibelants.