Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-15

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tween the houses of Pelkey and the next
man. Through this opening between the
houses people used to pass. He testified
that there was no obstruction there, and
| that one might come easily upon the
| tracks. Mr.. Woodbury. showed how they
went in on the granite spur to get their
car; he coupled the car to the pilot of the
engine. After coupling the car the engine
moved north. He does not know who
gave the signal to back out. The engineer
would not start without a signal from
some one, he did not know that they had
run over the child until both engine and
car had passed over her; the child was cut
| in two he thinks she was dead when he
| got to her.
Cross examined. The which was
| the excentric was broken on the shifter
and that they had left it in care of the fire.
man and took the mogul to go down and
get the car. He carefully described the
| manner of getting to the car and how it
was drawn out on the granite spur. The
| engine going down the spur was going as
| fast as a man would walk and at about the
same speed coming back. 1t could not
have been more than two minutes when
the first went down they re-passed the
place of the accident. The train was only
short distance when one of the men saw
something on the track and told Wood
bury of it. They went back and found
the body of the child as described; there
was little girl there when he first looked
and before he got away there were num-
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for doctor and on the way met the father
of the child who was walking fast toward
the scene of the accident. He does not
know whether he was then informed or
not, supposes he was. This was about Z:
so in the evening, it was light. When ask
ed how far one could see the track from
the cab, looking over the tender, he said
he had tried the experiment and thinks it
about 40 ft. that the track cannot be
seen.
Mrs. Pellzey the mother of the child tes-
titled next. Her name is Rose Pelkey. The
child, Aline, was about is months old.
The street is thickly settled down there
and there are large number of children
in the neighborhood there was an open
passage way beside her house to the track
and that people often passed through
there. Mrs. Pelkey's age is 81 and her
husbands about 40. On the day of her
child's death she came up street with her
sister, Mrs. Martin, to get the child some
shoes. She had left Aline in the care of
Rose Martin her niece, a girl about 10 years
old. The child was in the baby carriage
when she first left. She found the shoes,
paid for them and started home. She met
her husband who told her what had hap
pened, she did not help remove the chiId's
body from the track to the house nor did 1
she have anything to do with the sprepar-5
ing the child for buriala5 a' 75 7
Cross examined. She knew before NOV
ing into the house of the passage way to
the track, and that great number of en-
gines passed there daily, but she did not
think of her children getting on the track.
She had never had to take her children
from the track, unless it was the boy Ar
thur, and had never seen any of the others
on the track. Her husband worked at the
engine house cleaning engines, he most
always went through the passage by the
house, but had seen him go by the passage
lower down than this zone. Mrs. Pelkey
when she started for town expected to take
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Rose coming down she left the child with
Rose Mrs. Pelkey told about coming
back from the street for some money; it |
took me only few minutes to get it Mrs.
Martin did not go into the house with me |
but remained outside with the children. |
She says she might have been gone half an
hour the first time, when she was coming |
home the second time she heard the band |
playing and Mrs. Martin asked her to re-
main with her and hear the band play, but |
she was in hurry to get back to the chill |
dren, as she was worried about them, and I
she had fears that the children might be |
run over.
She said that when she met her husband |
he said you might have waited until to-
morrow before going up town, but that
there were no cross words said about why
she did not stay at home, nor that the
child would not have bean run over if she
had. The deposition of Rose Martin was
next admitted, her story was as follows: |
On the I'd day of July 1894 she was at Mrs
Pelkey's and was wheeling the child, ,Aline,
about in baby carriage, her mother and
Mrs. Pelkey were down street, they came
back from down street and soon went |
away again. She. said she was wheeling
the baby in the carriage when she herad
Vicky (Victoria Pelky) cry, she took the
baby out of the carriage and placed her on
the platform, she ran around the house
through the opening and out on the track
where she found Vicky, she picked her up
and carried her back to the house, while
there she saw the engine backing in for
cars, when she got back to the platform
the baby was gone; she ran around the
house again, went out on the track and