Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-10-17
CADIEUX CASE.
Plaintiff Asks for $4,000, Alleging
Negligence of the Northern
Pacific.
Lou Cadieux Tells How He Lost His
foot in the jamestown
Yards.

Witness for Defense in Cadieux Case
Says Roadbed Was in Good
Condition.
Fargo, n. d., Oct. 10.-Late yester-
day afternoon in the United States
court, the damage case Of Louis N.
Cadieux VS.. the N. P. Railway compa-
ny was taken up and the jurors Sc
cured to try the case. No evidence
was taken on account Of the late hour
and the trial of the action began this
morning.
The case is one where Cadieux act.
ed as switch brakeman in the yards Of
the defendant company at Jamestown,
and complainant alleges he was in the
discharge OF his duties on certain
day when he sustained the loss of one
leg. He alleges that he was hurrying
down the track to turn switch and
that his foot descended into a hole
left in the roadbed, by which action
he was thrown down and his leg
crushed by the approaching train nec-
essitating the amputation Of the
member at the Brainerd hospital.
He claims that the hole was there by
the negligence of the company and
that it is responsible for the damage
and thinks $4,000 would recompense
him. He is represented by Messrs.
Young & Coombs of Valley City.
On the other hand the defendant
company denies the allegations as to
their negligence, and hold that the
plaintiff only was to blame for the in
juries received. Ball, Watson & Mac
lay appear for the company and the
case will hardly be finished today.
A jury found Mrs. Olmstead of
Wahpeton not guilty Of sending OBJ
sence matter through the mails. The
defendant presented evidence to show
that she was in another place at the
time the letters were alleged to have
been mailed. Ladies from every church
in Wahpeton testified as to the long
residence and good standing in the
community Of the accused.
Fargo, Oct. lin the United
States court yesterday the case of
Louis Cadieux VS.. the Northern Pa
citic railway was on trial during the
entire session. In the forenoon d. M.
Canally, a former brakeman on the N.
p, was called to the stand and occu-
pied it during most Of the day. he
stated that he was in the yards at
Jamestown at the time of the acci-
dent and that he inspected the place
where Cadieux was hurt Immediately
after his removal. He testified to the
presence Of holes in the roadbed prob
ably caused by the steam thrown out
from the lower portion Of engines, and
said that he had reported the track
there in bad condition. On cross ex-
animation the attorneys for the de-
Tense succeeded in making things in
teresting by showing the witness a
statement purporting to have been
signed by him in which there was a
statement that he was Ito receive a
certain sum for his testimony in case
it should result favorably to the de-
fendant. He denied making the
statement in earnestness and stated
that the n. P. claim agents had been
advising and trying to get him to stay
away from the trial and not testify so
that he had made the statement in
hope that they would raise the ante
and give him something to keep still
and not appear at the trial. He stat
ed that they offered him transporta-
tion anywhere he wished if he would
stay away from the trial, but this he
failed to do. Late in1 the afternoon
he was dismissed from the stand and
the complainant in the action, Mr..
Cadieux, was called to the stand in his
own behalf. He stated that he was
in the employ of the n. P. on the
tenth of July in 1898, and that he was
making up train on the Jamestown
s. Northern branch. He was on the
pilot of the engine and attempting to
make coupling shortly before the
accident, according to his testimony.
He stated that the coupling was not
successful and he stepped off to fasten
the link and place the pin in proper
position. The engine was moving
slowly at this time and he claims to
have three steps while trying to make
the coupling, when he stepped into a
hole with one foot, tripping him and
throwing him to the north over the
track where his leg was crushed bv