Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-02-19
WALSH IS ACQUITTED.
pONCLUsION or THE MANSLAUGH.
TER TRIAL LAST NIGHT.
expert Testimony Favors the Defend
pnt-The Jury Decides Not Guilty
I'm short Urder.

report of the trial of Andrew
Walsh for manclaughter, which
~as begun in yesterdays Bull
AxTIN:
At the afternoon session the
prosecution called: w. IL.
lambert, chief of construction on
iAe Wailuku plantation; G. H.
Aluegel, c. E., and W. Il. Rowell,
q. E.; then rested.
The defense called John
Spencer, G. b. Wells and those a
summary of whose evidence
5Dllows:
Il. l.. Vandernellian, chief of
sunstruction at Spreckelsville,
gave expert evidence. Putting on
Ge brakes suddenly when the en-
gine was pushing train would
Sc liable to cause an accident of
NSue kind. Ii the brakes were
nj Walsh was perfectly justified
IN putting on steam to 90 up the
ECade. When he arrived at the
scene of the accident the track
Rad been relaid, the embankment
IEbuilt and the laborers were
B1rfacing the roadbed. The effect
INF putting on the brakes going
sOwn a grade was not equal to
iAat OF doing so going up grade.
u the brakes, but on going down,
v1-e left on going up, there
you'd not be an effect like
aat of n collision, but
mere would be great resistance.
Asked in cross examination if
Aat resistance would not be more
gGkely to throw off one of the
torward cars than the locomotive,
Lks answered that it would be
EOre likely to throw off the next
Ear to the locomotive or the loco
motive itself, that was where the
strain would come. He did not
hink it would have been safer to
pail than to push the cars on the
I1rye, because the tendency in
gushing was to impel the cars to
7ae outside rather than the inside.
BE could not explain why the en-
sine went off on the inside in con-
sistency with his theory, nor
xould he undertake to account for
tSie accident at all; if the track
Was in bad condition, that would
scount for the accident. From
me weight of the rails, the form
aeion of the track, etc, he would
say it would not be safer to pull
iSan to push the cars.
Menry Roberts, master mechanic
tk the o. r. & L. Co., said push
ing cars was not good railroading
Bqt it had often to be done. It
vas done on the Oahu railway
sally in the rice season; it was a
,scmmon practice on frstclass
Eastern roads. An engineer did
AOt like to do it, and it made him
Iautious in doing it. When the
5csgine was at the head of
lie train he had full COM
Band of it. You must have
grades and curves, you cannot
taild railroads level. Going
nSund curve excessive speed
would put engine off to the out
7Eae. II this engine went off on
Ae inside it would be no fault of
Ne engineer; in all his experience
ke never saw an engine going off
IN the inside of a curve. With a
good rail and the proper inclin-
aSion he would not consider speed
ssngerous in rounding a curve.
With the track all right there was
iaOre pleasure in going round a
snrve than running on straight
rack. Ii he found an engine off
Bn the inside of a curve, the first
Aing he would look for would be
. break in the engine. With a
inur percent grade, as he was told
Acre was at the scene of this ac-
ssdent, he would hit it at twenty
niles an hour. lLaughter.) Wit
ness told of grade on the Oahu
hallway where a speed of twenty
I've miles an hour was taken, and
then the engineer was glad to just
scratch over the summit although |
she rules allowed him ten miles an
hour in passing over it. In push
Ing cars the engineer did not
have the control over his train |