The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-19
FOXHALL KEENE FINED $40.
SAYS HIS AUTOMOBILE COULDN'T
BE FORCED To VIOLATE LAW.
Justice Pins His Faith 10 the Deputies
and Their Stop watches-Mrs. Keene
Reveals the weights OF the Persons
In the Auto and Also Of Betty. the DOG.

who was arrested week ago on the Jericho
road for driving his AUTOMOBILES faster
than twenty miles an hour. was fined 500
to-day by Justice Franklin. Keene paid the
fine under protest, hut said that II was an
outrage and that he would certainly APP
peal.
Mrs, Keene, who was with him when he
was arrested and who testified to-day in his
defence. also said after the trial that 1t was
an outrage. Then she added:
-Wc will go to England TO live. There's
no justice here
Much Of the testimony for the defence
was in French because the chauffeur and
automobile experts brought down by Keene
couldn't talk anything else. The testi-
mony OF the French witnesses for the de-
fence was interpreted by Fred watrous,
the lawyer for the defence. Nobody seemed
10 object TO this and tho Judge and As
-stant District Attorney Stoddart didn't
bother to have Mr.. Watrous In his ca
pacity as court Interpreter for his
own witnesses sworn. Judge Franklin
who Is very fine old gentleman acted
a. court interpreter and took everything
in long hand. That aroused the sympathies
IL Mrs keene When somebody asked
for the repetition OF a question and the
Judge had to hunt through his notes she
said:
ITS a shame to make that poor old man
work so hard
The forty or fifty persons who took holi-
day to attend the trial seemed greatly 10
enjoy the automobile clothes and French
lingo OF the defendants witnesses and the
Keene party seemed to get just as much
fun out Of the clothes and testimony Of the
local police and deputies who made the ar
rest. So all hands enjoyed the trial. even
if il did last four hours.
Then there we're some features that both
factions could enjoy. At no time during
the trial, not even when sentence was about
to he pronounced. could you have heard
keg Of nails drop. The silence was never
oppressive as IL ia frequent at trials A
large family lives upstairs over the court
room.
For some reason or other none OF the
children went to school yesterday, 1h.y
stayed at home and played tag over the
court. Outside another crowd Of children
were having fun footing the horn in Mr..
Keenes six horsepower aut omobile. It's
got q ten horsepower horn. OF course Mr..
Keene couldn't go out and stop them be-
cause he was prisoner. In the yard along
side the court house there was a growing
contest with enough entries 10 make poul-
try show.
In the yard In the rear there was a left
over washing on the line from the day be-
fore. Monday wasn't a good drying day.
The lines creaked and the clothes tapped III
the wind and one pair of red flannel under
drawers In particular was guilty Of con-
tempt of court all day long First one red
leg and then another kicked at the win
dow. back of the Judges chair, and both
| X did a Jig all through the Assistant Dis
,rct Attorney closing argument. for
hen II had come on to blow.
Mrs. Keene LEFT her husbands side
u once through the long trial That
Nas when Betty barked. Betty Is the
kaenes' favorite Irish terrier. She was
left alone in the automobile, and some
native dogs without pedigreeS ANNOYED
her 80 She barked for assistance. Mrs,
Neene went out a minute and returned with
BETTY in her arms.
The dog jumped over the rail and climbed
ln'o The prisoners lap
You have brought that dog in here,
aid the prosecutor sternly. TO arouse
he sv- ~ of the Court for this defend
ant" Then Betty WAS tied down with
N-s. keene's handkerchief and kept under
q bench.
Sidney Blossom was the first witness
i'r the people He was al the first mark
I the tneA -llfed elRl'n OF n nlll' over winch
keene was accused Of going AT the rate of
'"enty-four miles an hour. He testified
nat when the automobile passed him he
waved his handkerchief TO Deputy Sheriff
G7rvan, who was a. the other end of N"
treasured eighth with stop watch.
blossom pulled on, his handkerchief and
showed the court just how he did II.
This handkerchief was made Peoples
Exhibit 4.
Bo,son. who has a bad cold in the head
l,-irs in la Inv bn rnaIsiIa
on the lookout for speeding devil wagons,
code Exhibit \ before IN" trial was over,
AMI GOT it back with mutual consent Of
counsel.
Undor cros--yamination Blossom said
'sq' hn formerly worked in a pickle factory
hut e't that ioh to get $50 a month a. an
'aV'omohii" watcher"
Do Won get any extra prize money as
!. NUS for catching MANI asked Mr..
Watrous.
More" replied the witness
Well. Won know, don't YOU, that you'd
losc your sjg job u YOU didn't ca'cl some
BODY orCe in a whilo?"
"Nc'hings over been said about that"
Gaivap testified that by his stop watch
the automobile covered the EIGHTH of "A
mile in 49, seconds. He identified k"ene
as the man who was driving the machine.
and told about the arrest AT Norwich three
miles beyond the point where the Watchers
signalled 10 keHne 10 stop. Al this point
the prosecutor referred to tho defer IN,
a. "tho O. IN 81 who had tried tO rscaDc."
This va o"" q the jokes TINT the people
in tho count ','n cnioyed
Deputy Sheriff Adolph Painter. who said
that he'd been y deru'y going on four
months. testified tha, Kee1e wouldn't stop
when he was ordered 10 do So
Did YOU tell him why you wanted him
20 stop?" asked Watrous
"He wouldn't give me chance He just
whizzed right bv me" said Painter.
Harold G. Hawker, a surveyor, was the
first witness for the defence. He had
surveyed the eighth Of a mic and found
thore was an ip grade with n total rise of
th-ae feet for the whole furlonr
Then came the experts and chauTeurs all
" whom declared that "A o horse power
Renaud machine such AZ the one used could
not possibly go mora than twenty miles an
hour on a good level road and that II could
not 60 so fast n that on the upgrade de-
scrihed bv Surveyor Hawkes.. One of
them said from seventeen - eighteen miles
would be- the hes, the machine could do
IN that grade. Another said from seven
teen aud a hall 10 eighteen, and third said
from eighteen To nineteen. Because ~
this Ciscrepancv the prosacut or declarod
that the do'ermi ling Of speed by the horse
power was not an "exact science" and that
The TESTIMONY Of the experts should have |
no wei chr against the evidence Of the stop !
watches
Ono expert wouldn't give an opinion |
without knowing how many persons we're |