The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01
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appointment of Judge Dudley H. Chase.
From Sundays Second Edition.)
Jumped from a Trolley.
EVANSVILLE. Pa, March so.-Three
fatally injured and ten others slightly hurt
on the Lehigh Traction Company's road
by jumping from a runaway trolley car on
the mountain near this place. The dead
MRS. wATKIN WILLIAMS, of Hazelton.
MRS. JOHN X. EARLY, of Beaver
JAMES EARLY. aged eight years. son
of above.
The fatally injured are:
MRS. JAMES EVANS, of Colorain. side
torn n open n and nd otherwise injured.
She was an invalid and the chances for
recovery very slight.
kin L. Williams, husband of the. woman
who was killed, legs and side bruised;
Maggie Herrity; of Beaver Meadow, leg
children of Mrs. Evans. James, aged ten
years, having his skull fractured; Hannah
head cut; Morris Hughes. of wilkesbarre.
badly bruised about the body: All of the
other people who suffered injuries were able
The accident was the worst in the history
of the trolley reads in this region and was
gers who crowded about the conductor and
gripmen of the unmanageable car The
disaster occurred on car NO. ~. AS the
car passed out on the grade leading down
the mountain gripman Seitz applied the
brake bur the chain chain snapped , He then hen
refused to work and the motorman sprang
to the reverse brake, hoping to control the
car by the current. The action of the
this time alarmed the passengers. Failing
to control the car. seitz shouted to con-
ductor Socks to apply the rear brake. The
motorman's shouts caused panic in the
car and the passengers made rush for
the mountain at mile a minute. Cons
ductor Socks appealed to the passengers
to go back into the car SO that he might
not needed. David Backman, of Hazelton,
and two other men, endeavored to keep
the women from throwing themselves from
the car on to the rocks. but try as they
would they could rot prevent the frightened
women from crowding around the con,
control. Mrs. Williams was the first to
jump. Her body struck against a post.
death. Mrs. Early next flung herself onto
the rocks and was dashed TO death. She
same fate as his mother The remaining
passengers. with tne exception, then
jumped. Mrs. Evans was the only person
of the motor man and conductor.
The car kept the track until the cross
e g Here foot the the aes sns
crashed into telegraph pole. The front
of the car was stove in and piece OF
screams of tie frantic passengers as the
car rushed down the, mountain, could be
this place hastened to the scene of the
accident and did all they could to relieve
ae 1t se aad1 f5e a
Hazelton on special car and rendered
assistance to the injured Had the pas
sengers remained in the car. the accident
could have been averted, as the rear brake
would have held the car and prevented
IN oh
gency. but the conductor was wedged SO
tightly against the dasher by the .panic-
move his arms until the car had gotten be-
yond control; The motorman aud con-
ductor were but slightly injured.
Anna Dickinson Said to Be Insane.
SCRANTON, Pa. March 3o.-There was a
continuation of testimony in the Anna
m case t1day TMo experts Iis on in
lum, and DR.. Wehlan, of this city. testified
that from the testimony and from what
they had seen of Miss Dickinson they be,
lieved her to be insane. They described
her particular form of disease as paranoia.
sanity. sG DR.. meredith said, IS the Ell most dan
geous kind of a lunatic and is likely to
commit homicide. Witness heard Miss Dick
New York, in April, 1891. and from her re-
markable discourse then he still thought
that she had paranOia
DR. Wehlan. Of this city. corroborated DR..
Meredith with respect to paranoia. Hypo-
thetical questions were put to hinr covering
what Miss Dickinson had said and done
and he answered that a person who acted
and spoke in that manner was mentally
affected and would be a paranoiac.
The defense rested and Mrs. Jessie Win
terstein was called TO the stand in rebuttal.
She was an attendant at the Danville
Asylum when the plaintiff was there and
swore that she never saw Anna act in
any manner that would indicate that she
insane. Mrs. Mcdonald, of Wilkes
barre, who, twenty-One years ago,
Annals travelling maid, asserted that she
never saw Anna act strangely, but admitted
that she saw her about once month for
short time only. Then she questioned
about Annals liking whisky. and asked if
she had ever seen anna drink it. She an
swered that it was not her business to
watch what Anna drank. She was again
asked and answered that if she saw some
liquid in glass she could not swear
whether it was whisky or not.
did you ever hear Anna say great peo-
pie were jealous of her.
They were jealous of ner."
How do you know?'
why. from remarks that were passed"
who We're these people?
sWhitelaw Reid was one
HE was man. what woman was?
'Oh, the women, / know nothing about
them. Some of the women stock are not
of much account
The kilograms Anna sent to Jay Gould
Robert +. Pattison and others were Of
fered in evidence Anna was then called
to the stand to give REBUFF. test mony and
court adjourned il being agreed to con-
unue her examination Monday morning.
American Sporting League.
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