The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-29
HILBERT HUBBARD
TRIAL OF JOHN COLLIGAN
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 would be present and take mart in this
 praise service, but she is unavoidably
 uetalned and obliged to defer her visit
 to New Haven until a later date
 sald that he did not see him do SO Wit
 ness also said that he stood at the
 place where he lost sight of Colligan in
 the expectation that Colligan would
 soon emerge, but after waiting there
 about eight minutes, in which time Col
 ltgan did not appear, he went out on
 the street and ran up towards the town
 hall hoping, he said, to meet Colligan 1 there. Witness said in his direct ex-
 animation that he saw a blaze through l the window of the Beardsley barn soon after Colligan had disappeared through the bushes near the barn and that he, therefore, knew there was fire in the barn. When asked why he did not send
 Tn the alarm he said he did not know
 Ill the cross examination in the after
 noon yesterday by Attorney Thomas
 witness said that the first intimation
 that he had that there was a fire was
 through part of conversation he had
 heard between some women while he
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 hall on his hunt for Colligan after the latter disappeared through the space near the Beardsley barn.
 Witness said that he had gone up Main street as far as the Hall place and when he was returning he saw and passed three or four women on Main street near Savin avenue and that as he was passing them he overheard the remark that there was a fire some- where These two statements were made, like many others, after close questioning by the lawyers for the de- fence and it seemed that the stories of the officer were very much disconnect- ed. Officer French was kept on the stand for over two hours and he related conversations, etc., that he said had taken place with different people and didn't relate other conversations that are said to have taken place with other people and which Messrs Lynch and Thomas called for.
 After the cross examination of Officer French, which was closed about 3:30 o'clock, brother of the officer, Albert N. French, was called and he told of what he knew of the case and of conversation he had had with Colligan, also one that he had overheard between Colligan and another party, which was unimportant for the argument of either | side. Witness was asked in cross ex- | animation if he had ever been en- | ployed on the police force in the bor- | ough and his reply was Not on your | 1ife," and asked if he had talked with 1 hi hrn oh hntlt fhn Tlao c1au fire hn | replied that he had not.
 The next witness was Robert Me- Donald MT. Mcdonald testified that he had gone over the ground that Officer French supposed had been taken by Colligan while going from MT. Lords house to the fire and that he was SUD- posed to have covered on his trip from the scene of the fire to the house of MT. Lord. Witness said that he had made two trips and that on being timed he learned that it had taken him three minutes to go from the house of MT. Lord to the barn via the back yards, etc, and that on the return trip through he gateway between the parsonage and he Beardsley house and over Savin avenue and Main street to the door at he rear of MT. Lords house it had aken four minutes and half on an ordinary gait" On cross examination said that he did not know for ;ure that the time was as stated, for le had gone by only what was told him ,y the party holding the watch
 David S. Crane was again called to f he stand and he told of timing trips hat he had taken with MT. McDonald i md said that the time as told by MT. I IcDonald was correct. He went mi lutely into the trip from and to MT. :, Iord's house and showed the court i bout the rate of speed he walked. f He said that it required seven and i alf minutes to make the trip and after t
 cross examination, which resulted in everal spats between the lawyers I udge Bryant adjourned court until lt aturday morning, January 5, at S:30 a clock. IF