Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-11
Sure thing"

Sure thing"
And you didn't go back to shut the
power off after you were thrown out!
No. sir another fellow did that for
me-.
Then exclaimed the attorney for
the defendant. the power wasn't SHUT
off when YOU struck the ditch"
Once NOR. The witness looked w~ail'.l
IA explain things. said lie. 80 that
perhaps you people VIII" don Z; know
about automobiles viii have a higher I'M
derstandire." He the-cur"n explained
that with a steam machine the power -
shut off by pulling back lever at the
,.ie oi the seat. and that ii man pulled
back tina lever and then suddenly struck
An obstacle with force sufficient TO throw
him out OF the mac hine his hard being
still on the lever would throw il forward
and SO put on the power
Were you running in a straight line.
or were you lodging to The right and
LETT asked Mr.. Chapman
Ana for the third time the witness look
ed boled.
That's q nice question. isn't 1t. now!
he asked looking FIRST 20 The jury and
then to the court.
But the court told him he must answer
il as best he could and he said that he
was urnning straight before the dog came
out and that after that he couldn't tell
juSt which way he did turn.
With the intention of showing that Mrs.
Lombard Is lamencss was due TO Iheurna-
tism Mr.. Chapman asked: DO you
know wnat makes your wife lame:
Il should think. responded the Wit
ness that Icing thrown on of an auto
mobile might have something to do Win
..Wher YOU picked her up didn't you ask
her ii she hadn't hunt her lame side"
The answer wa, short. expressive and
contcmrtuOus. Ii was:
Didn't yGu" persisted Mr.. Chapman,
say anything about running over anoih-
or dog
And again the witness replied,
Were YOU going fast?''
~, | was going slow"
DO you call IL miles an hour Slow
We'll, reasonably slow.
What do you cali faSt?'
Well a o5 or ~ mile an hour jog.
ON redirect examination the witness
iii ne never went fast when his wife was
with him and pecidlly when it was cold.
lie testified further that there was no
one around at the time of the accident.
The first man he saw was a man on a
bicycle and he couldn't speak a word "i
So, said the witness. AL could do
was to point to my wife and up toward
the town and he wen; Oft.
What was the result?
II don't know what the results were.
but he had me stuck.
After the recess Mr.. Chapman opened
the case for the defendant and then pre-
scented as his first witness Augustus $.
Iurke of Sshawmut. the defendant.
Burke. denied all the admissions which
We're credited to him by the plaintiff say
ing that when Lombard came to see him
H.. denied any knowledge Ct the case.
H.. said that Lombard said to him:
You'll admit il was your dog" and
saws Il wort" He told me the damage
was about SlcH. but I'll settle for so"
II saws to hirr. I'm a poor man and
l don't know nothing about it. -
Have yon ever admitted that it was
your dog
ON ton the witness did
not change his testimony in any material
respect.
Louis Dumort Of Shawmut who drives
Il delivery cart for Burke. was the next
He testified that he was at the Fleury
home the forenoon Of the accident
seeing the automobile coming and having
q strange horS. H.. started to run to his
team which was beside the road. As hr
did 50 the dog rushed out. barking. and
Lombard who was then coming in a
straight line on the other side of the road.
turned and mad a bee line for the dog
hut did not hit the dog. and then turned
suddenly into the ditch. wrecking the ma
chine. He says that tho first thing Lom-
bard asked his wife was, May. have YOU
hurt your lame side
And then" continued the witness, "he
says. Damn the dog. ! run over him
Th. witness testified further that tho
wheel was in the ditch beside the machine
whether the dog was Burke's or not.
ON cross-cxaminatioC Mr.. Johnson pro.