The sun., 1895-05-28
MISS WILDER'S MlSHAp.
SIZE SUES THE BRoADTAr CAME
ROAD FOR $eO,0O0 BECAUSE or II.

She Was Thrown TO the Floor or Chr
Rounding the Curve in Cnion square
Shc snys She IL n M~ntai and Phy-i-
cal Wreck on Account of Her Iniurics.
Tic trial Of tho suit Of Miss Jennie Caroline
Wilder tho elocuttonist, who Ia eistcr of
Marshall =. Wilder, against the Broadway Rail
road Company for 500, 900 for personal injuries
was begun yesterday in the Supreme Court in
Brooklyn before Justice Rumscy. Tho plaintiff
sat directly in front OF the jury, surrounded by
n group OF women friends. She was very pale
ana looked frightened.
Her counsel, Jerry a. Weinberg, said that
his clients memory had been nearly destroyed
by the injuries she had received. Miss Wilder
was assisted to the witness chair. She said she
lived at SAG Putnam avenue, Brooklyn. She Is
n member OF the Woman's Press Club and the
Women's Professional League. She said she
was in the habit OF attending the business
meetings and the monthly afternoon teas of the
league She described herself rs an elocutionst.
her home with Kate NJ. Bostwck. her half sister.
and went to the opening ceremonies at the
leagues new club house in Forty-fcurth street
,sho and Miss Bo.twick left the club house
about o'clock and started tart down town in
is sharp curve. the car lurched and she was
thrown face downward ,a, to ,he e., floor n 81.
out OF n cannon. Everything seemed to go
around and felt dizzy. Idont remember any
which was then at $50 Throop avenue. My side
sS,Inr i frS% ysSs ssTs, ss
feels numb. Ii undertake to recite can utter
only few lines and then everything goes from
accident / have awful dreams. dream that
am ,,,,, banging by the neck and that some one is
Miss Wilder. on crosse Examination by Lawyer
Thomas $. Moore. said that when she fell her
had not been resting against her chin. Kate NJ.
bostwick testified that when the car gave, a
sh Miss WaeT n WIN" s,ins sit @ Ho by her SIDE
The car gave such u jerk and u whrl," Miss
Bostwick said. that it sprained my back; \
strange gentleman picked Jennie up. helped
her home AS well ae could, and when got her
to the house she was very much worse. Before
went, and she could work better tlan could.
Her checks were rosy and she had n good appe-
s thai MSs
by defe1s Of the spine Her
Storey. testified that Miss Wilder had been in
That since then great change. had taken place
in her condition. mentally and physically. DIR.
District District Attorn,y John W. Oakley. DR.. snse.te
+. Dunlevey. Dr. Lucy Hall Brown, and Georsina
Lamson testified as to the change In Miss
II gEsr for the
jured as she thought she was. and that her in
3uries were not the result of any carelessness on
the part of the company. Engineer John Lam
der. who was in charge of the power house of
the company on the day of the accident. testi-
fled that eight and three;quarter miles an hour
Is the limit of speed on the cable cars
James Joseph bowling, the conductor of the
car. testified that there was no unusual joting
they turned the curve. He noticed Miss
Wilder lying down as he entered the car to look
at the register, but did not suppose she was hurt
in any wny.
The hearing will be resumed this morning.