The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-03-28
Attorney for Accused Autoist De.
cIares Golfers Car Did Not
Strike Man on the Road
BIC TRIAL ON IN EARNEST
Jury Was Secured Before Noon Wednes.
day and the Trial of the Case is
Expected to Proceed Very
Rapidly From Now On

pile and there is no one who will
swear that he did This was the
keynote of the defense of Ted Collier
charged with manslangnter in the
Circuit Court audit was the statement
made by Attorney w. S. Forrest, who
is representing Collier in the now
famous trial. This is not to be taken
as reputation of the statements
made by Frank L. Jackson and Shelly
Montgomery as the attorney de-
clares that when Jackson shouted
I'VE hit man" it was only the result
of an inference and that Collier is
ready to go on the stand and tell the
jury how he guided the car so that the
old man along the road was not struck
by the car. The opening statement
Of Attorney Forrest was the sensation
al feature of the second day of the
Collier trial. The efforts to secure
a jury which had been left unfinished
at the session on Tuesday afternoon
were renewed Wednesday and after
the examination of two jurors the at
torneys had accepted the twelve men
to try the case. There is but one man
from the city on the jury and he is E.
L. Shippee, an employe Of the Keno
sha Hosiery company. The other
members of the jury are farmers from
the different parts of the county.
The full roster of the jury is as fol-
lows: John Kretschman of Wheat
land, James NORM of Somers, w. C.
Dowse of Pleasant Prairie, T. E.
Manning of Salem, Joseph Bishop of
Somers, George Huntoon of Salem,
w. G. Bryant of Bristol, James E.
Spencer of Somers, Evan Powell of
Pleasant Prairie, George Kirk of
Pleasant Prairie, George Newberry of
Randall and E. L. Shippee of Ke-
nosha.
AS soon as the jury had been form
ally sworn Attorney Forrest made
motion that all witnesses in the case
be excluded from the court room dur
ing the time that testimony was be-
ing taken and Judge Belden stated
that this would be the ruling of the
court and witnesses to the number of
score promptly left the court room.
Attorney Baker, in response to
question from the Court, stated that
it would take him two days to present
his evidence and the attorneys for
Collier stated that day would be re-
Quired to present their case. On this
statement the jurors not engaged in
the case were excused until next Tues
day morning.
The trial of the case opened with a
statement of the theory of the State.
attorney Baker defined the different
classes of manslaughter and went at
length into a discussion of cu1pa Bile
negligence, after which he outlined
the evidence to be presented by the
State, declaring that the State would
show beyond reasonable doubt that
William Dreyer was killed by an auto
mobile, and that the car which crushed
out his life was driven by the de-
PENDANT. He entered into the evil
dence presented at the preliminary
hearing at length, but brought out
nothing new save the fact that one
witness had been discovered who
would testify that the water tank on
the Collier machine had great hole
in the back of it.
Mr.. Forrest, in his opening state
ment, laid down the theory of the de-
feUse. He stated that while it was
| probable that Dreyer died from in
juries received by being struck by an
automobile, he would show that this
could not be proved. He would show
that Dreyer was with one "Red'
O'Neil on the afternoon before he met
his death and that no one saw the ac-
cident which resultedsin his death.
He said that the defense would show
that "kindly genial faced old soul,
probably sixty years of age was found
dead along the roadway, and that the
old man had probably never done
harm to any one, that the body vas
badly mangled." Events he declared
would show that the old man was
deaf, and that he had probably been
killed sore time between ten o'clock
al night and three O'Clock in the
morning. He stated that the defense
would show that five automobiles at
least, passed over the road where
the body was found after ten o'clock
and that the defense would siren
uously deny that it was Ted Collier
car which caused the wounds on the
body of the old man which might have
been responsible for his death. He
took up the different phases of the
case and the only sensational point
made was the declaration that Collier
would take the stand ID his own de-
Tense and swear that he lever struck
anything on the night that Dreyer
must have been killed. With this
statement the noon adjournment was
| taken.
Rotert Symmonds was the first
witness called blythe state in the aftes-
noon aud he testified in regard to the
automobile driven by Collier, touch
| Ing especially on the size of parts
land the general makeup Of the car.
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