The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-04-04

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ed and he was expected to show that
the tank of the machine had been
punctured by coming in contact with
one of the NUS on the fans. This he
did not prove. Smith stated that the
tank was pushed back possibly an
inch or an inch and half but that
there was nothing further thesmatter
with it. He said that little hole had
been torn in the back end of the tank.
It was evident that Smith was not a
mony was disappointment to the
State. Smith declared, however,
that Collier had said nothing to him
in regard to the condition of the tank
more than that it had leaked at four
corners and that rust spots had ap-
peared where the leaks had taken
place. Smith testified that he was
the only man that had handled the
machine and that Collier had simply
told him. to replace the tank on the
morning after the accident giving as
his reason that the owner of the
machine had planned to call for it on
that day. 1t was shown by the evil
dence of Smith that there had been no
effort to conceal the tank after it was
removed from the machine. It is
claimed that the defense will put on
experts to discredit the testimony Of
Smith.
L. S. Vinegar followed Smith on
the. stand and he told of the car and
its equipment. He stated that the
lamp had glass front eleven inches
in diameter.
Vinegar was examined again by
the district attorney with the opening
of the afternoon session. Mr.. Baker
attempted to prove by Vinegar that
the very car which had been driven
by Collier had been at the Jeffrey
factory until two days ago, but the
court held that the questions along
this line was irrelevant.
Thursday Afternoon Session
The interest in the trial picked up
Thursday afternoon when some Of the
witnesses called to bolster up the tes-
timony of Dr., Andre became badly
muddled, and when the State pre-
sented in evidence the glass which
was alleged to have been picked up
along the road near the spot where
the body of Dreyer was found. This
glass, which has been made famous
in connection with the case, was four
or five pieces of glass three. sixteenths
of an inch thick, but with nothing to
show that it had been a part of an
automobile lamp. The attorneys for
the defendant objected strenuously to
this glass being introduced as evil
dence, as they declared that it was
found on the afternoon after the body
was found aud intimated that it
might have beer put there in the
morning. The Judge overruled the
objection and the glass was received
as evidence. It had been stated that
the glass was the entire front part of
an automobile lamp, but it.would take
a large imagination to make this true.
The attorneys for the defendant re-
peatedly scoffed at the glass and one
of them declared that it was simply
lot of window glass that had been
brought into court. The glass was
alleged to have been found by Henry
Tennesen and he had guarded it sa-
credly from the day of the finding of
the body until it was brought into
court. The introduction of the glass
and its reception by the court was
black eye for the defense.
The examination of the various
members of the Tennesen family and
other farmers along the road took up
more than an hour of the time of the
court and it was nearly 5o'clock when
Peter Hanson, of the town of Paris,
was called. Hanson is the farmer at
whose house Collier, Frank Jackson
and Shelly Montgomery stopped on
the morning after the accident, His
testimony was the same as on the pre-
liminary hearing. He brought out
the fact that the men were lost and
that they got water at his house. He
testified that Collier poured the water
with a steady hand and that he did
not spill any Of it, The defense en-
phasized this fact presumably to show
that Collier had been perfectly sober
on the night of the ride.
Friday Afternoon Session
The sessions on Friday afternoon
proved to be a decided disappointment
to the State. 1t had been planned to
make the testimony of Jackson and
Montgomery the great rounding out
of the States case, but the evidence
given by the two witnesses was so
consistently inconsistent with what
had been expected by thesdistrict at
torney, that it was unsatisfa Glory, to
say the least, and the two men we're
dismissed from the stand after
questioning of less than two hours,
while on the former examination more
than half day had been taken up in
listening to the story they had to tell.
So surprised was the.district attorney
at the turn the testimony was taking
that at one time he had dismissed