Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-10
OFFICER KEEGAN's TESTIMONY
He Was the Last Witness at Yester-

day Afternoons s session.
 The first day of the second week of the trial of the eight trolley strikers in the superior court closed yesterday. The temperature was intensely un- comfortable; the humidity almost in- tolerable. It must have been terrible on the witness stand, Morrissette oc- cupied that uncomfortable place the greater part of the day. His evident inability to understand the questions asked him added to his discontinue and kept him in a constant perspira- tion. Sweat stood out in large beads on his forehead and face and his hand kerchief was in constant motion. His xamination, on account of the neces- sity to almost constantly repeat the questions was very tedious. It was late in the afternoon when he was re" leased from the stand and one could see that he was glad to get down.
 The star witness of the day was of- ficer William Keegan, excepting Mor- rissette, he was a strong witness for the state. He was proceeded by a number of minor witnesses. He was on the stand when court adjourned at 4 o'clock. John Tennburg, who was on the stand at press hour testified that he was motorman on the car af- ter the one i'll charge of Merna and Mor1issette. He said the time of the assault was about 11:30. The rest of his evidence was merely corrobora1ve. He saw Morrissette sta ggering on the tracks ahead of the car and he assisted him on. Then he went in search of doctor. He was not oss-exam1ned, Neither was Joseph Danes the con ductor on the car. His evidence was also corroborative. Then came Officer Keegan. He testified that he was on duty between Faber's switch and Wa terville on the night in question ana he came on Ierna and Morrissette's s car to the Waterbury end of the switch. Then he proceeded Uo walk back. The trolley track at Cottage park, he said, Is not on the pubhc highway This place, he said, is about 2,0OO feet from the Waterbury end of the switch Soon after he had started to walk back he heard cries and shouts and he listened. Then he ran ahead and he saw Mernas Dooy stretched across the main track where the grade Is very steep. The next he saw was car approaching and he ran toward Merna's body and pulled it off the track. He threw snow an his face. Merna was unconscious. There was a cut on his chin and an other on his forehead and his face was covered with blood. He next saw a car standing in the gloom. The lights were out. The car was stand ing about 1000 feet from where Miss Twining, assistant librarian at the Bronson library, lives.
 The throwing of snow on Merna's face had the result of reviving him and he said, Save me-" The officer said, II will," and then Merna said, "I am killed"
 This remark caused a ripple of sub- dued laughter but, Sheriff Dunham's gaveI quickly silenced 1t. The above few remarks were excluded.
 Witness said he got Merna on the car after putting on the pole, which turned on the lights. He started the car toward Waterbury, Merna> sitting inside on a seat. He was conscious now. The car had not proceeded far when the pole went off the wire and Wnen It WdS dSdln duJ JuSISo dhO AO was about to start the car once more, Merna got up and said he would take fit in If the officer helped him. Then the officer held him and they got as far as the Boulevard, where they met an emp1oye of the trolley company who took the car to the barn.
 Returning to the first of his tesd- mony, the officer said he left Merna and Morrissette at Faber's switch and soon after heard shouting in south erly direction. He judged there were quite a number of voices; possibly a dozen. The voices were very loud. He heard shouts of Murder" and $ ----- the scabs." He was then about 100 feet of the northerly end of the switch Then he ran and saw Merna stretched on the tracks, his head on one rail and his feet on the other. This closed the direct examination and busi- ness was suspended for the day, 1t be- ing then the hour to adjourn, 4:3O o'clock.