The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-11

on me at the time"
az can only come to one conclusion
regarding your evidence, that is, pre-.
suming you are a truthful man. l. there =
fore ask you if you were sober on the
night of the 27th9"
The witness hesitated. Atlast he said,
~ was not drunk"
"Answer my question, il you please.
Were you sober when you saw this re.
markable vision2"
| "Not exactly"
"What do you mean by not exactly2"
al was at dinner that evening, and
there was the usual quantity of wine
drunk. left at 80 in hanson. l
was not intoxicated, but l had been
drinking"
"You were in that happy state be-
tween sobriety and drunkenness"
~ suppose so."
"Has it not occurred to you that a
mans life or death hangs on what you
saw when in that conditions"
The witness did not answer.
"You are positive that train ran
along side of the nine clock express on
the night OF the SItnF'
Yes"
"You swear that2"
al do"
"Would it shake your confidence it,
were to prove that no train ran part of
the way parallel with the nine o'clock
express9"
81 suppose it would"
"Then you are not so confident asiyou
pretend to be in the actuality of your
vision2"
"I merely state what saw"
"No. What you thought you saw"
"You may put it that way if you
like"
"rhere is no other way to put it.
You were in semi-intoxicated state,
and you thought you saw struggle on
IA train which l will show exists only in
your half-drunken imagination. That
will do, sir"
The defense called several officials who
were on duty that night at the terminus,
and went to show that no train full of
passengers could possibly have run par
alel with the nine o'clock express.
"You remember the nine O'clock ex-
press on the night of the'27thG"
eyes"
"Did it leave on time2"
"One minute after, sir"
"When did the next train leave the
terminusl"
"At 9:25. A slow train"
"No train left from any off the other
platforms before 9:252"
"No, sir.
"Did the 9;25 overtake Che express
that night3"
"NO, SIR"
"What was the last train to leave be-
fore the express~
"rhe S:15, sir"
"Did the express overtalSe the S:45
that nightW
"Not till both trains had passed
Brenton."
1t is always good plan not to'try to
Prove too much. If the prisoners adYo-
cate had stopped with the witness above
quoted the result might have been diff
fcrert. He called the engineer of the 8
o'clock train to the stand.
"You are the engineer of the 9 o'clock
express9"
"Yes, SIR"
"You took out that train on the night
of the 27thF
ayes, sir"
~ suppose it is hardly necessary to
ask you If you passed any train running
parallel with you, aud in the same di-
rection, between the terminus and Bren-
toni"
"Yes, sir, we did"
This answer was a stupefying surprise
to the defense, and there was what the
papers described as a sensation in court.
"You have heard these witnesses
swear that no train could have been
passed by the o'clock express?"
"This was a train of empties, sir. II
came from the yard, aud was going to
the junction"
"What is a train of emptiesl"
empty carriages, sir. Shunted aud
left all night at the junction, sir"
"rhen there were no passengers on
that trainl'
"No, sir"
"were the lights out in the car
riages2'
"Yes, sir"
"The doors were locked, I suppose!
"Yes, sir"
"Thep no struggle could have taken
place on that trainl"
mo. sir. "
"Thet will do.