The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-02-28
Hearing Of Edward Collier Seized
uIed for Thursday May Bring
Sensational Developments
OTHERS MAY BE IMPLICATED
Attorney For Defendant Will Make an
Effort to Find How William
Dreyer Got to the Other
Roadway

| Otnc1alS and attorneys interested IN
the solution of the circumstances sur
rounding the death of William Dreyer
who was killed by an automobile or
the road between Kenosha and Ra-
cine on the night of July q of last
year, expect sensational developments
at the hearing of Edward Collier,
who has been arrested on charge OF
manslaughter in connectioniwith the
death of Dreyer. The hearing will
take place before Court Commissioners
john C. Slater tomorrow morning and
it is pretty certain that some new
facts will be brought out at the hear
ing and it is possible that this evil
dence will lead to the implication Of
other people in the killing of the old
man. The attorneys for Collier are
planning to make hard fight to pre-
vent his being held to the ECircuit
Court and it is possible that they will
insist that Dreyer was not killed by
the automobile driven by the accused
man. Collier has made no effort to
deny the fact that the old man was
struck by the machine which he was
driving and the statements made by
the men who were with Collier on the
night of the accident leave no DOUBT
that this is the case.
The attorney for the defense will,
however, demand that the state show
how Dreyer got from the east road to
the west road to where his remains
were found. All of the witnesses
who have given evidence declare that
the automobile which Collier was
driving was running on the east track,
and when the body of Dreyer was
found it was on the west track and
had been dragged for many feet.
The attorney for the defendant
makes no secret of the fact that he
thinks it possible that Dreyer was not
killed by the automobile driven by
Collier, out that he was struck later
by another automobile on the west
track The body of the man was so
mangled that there appears to be
some support for this theory.
District Attorney Baker stated this
morning that he would have no new
evidence to bring out at the prelimi-
nary hearing of the case, but that he
hoped that the attorneys for Collier
would go thoroughly into the case
and bring out any other evidence.
The district attorney is ready to order
other warrants issued if any evidence
is shown that would implicate other
men. The district attorney stated
that 1t was possible that after Dreyer
had been struck by the Collier auto
mobile he had attempted to crawl
across the road to house few feet
from the scene of the accident, but
that there had been no evidence to
establish this fact. It is not thought
that there will be many witnesses in
the case, and possibly Frank Jackson
and Shelly Montgomery will be the
only men called by the State.
The evidence taken at the former
hearing brought out the fact that the
old man was not dragged by the Col
1ier ma chine, and that he was struck
on the East side of the track, and
these facts in connection with the
facts surrounding the finding of the
body may be sufficient to show that
Dreyer was alive after he had been
struck by the Collier machine.