The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-05-09
Auto Expert Recently Convicted
of MansIaughter Tells Story
Of Killing Of Dreyer
CLAIMS ALL ARE INNOCENT
Collier is Called in Connection With
the Hearing Of Shelly III. Mont
gomery, Who Was Charged
With Perjury in the Case

d CudI e u mduS1d uS nlcI III CO0nGC-
ton with the killing Of William ORGY
er, told in Court his story Of the
famous case and while it follows in
rnainthe story that was told by Jack
son and Montgo merry it is more posi-
tive as to the Innocence of the three
boys and goes to lay the blame for the
killing of old man. Dreyer upon an
other. 913
Golfers story was brought out in
connection with the preliminary
hearing of Shelly H. .Montg merry on
charge ofaperjury which was started.
before Justice Donahue on Monday
After the examination of the prelin-
mary witnesses, Miss WEIGH,
stenographer for George B. McCar-
ron, and Justice McCarron, Collier
was called to the stand and notwith-
standing the fact that Peter Fisher,
the 4 attorney epresenting Mont
gomery, objected strenuously to sGol-
liers testifying the Court directed that
he must aanswer the questions put to
him and for half an hour Collier told
the story ofathe famous ride which is
alleged to shave resulted in the death
of the old Imam. M The interest in the
story told by Collier &eclipsed the in
terest in the Montgomery case to
which it was not at a1lmaterial.
Collier stated that. he and his com
panions were driving along che road
late in the evening when he saw. an
object rise out of the weeds on the
east side Of his east wheels. He de-
cl7redethat5 he could not tell whether
or not the car struck the object as the
members -of-the4 party did not go
back. He stated that when he saw
the object it'll was. sonnet six feet IN
front Of the front of his car and that
be applied the Gemerg enc BRAKES as
soon as possible and brought the car
down to- aSsIowa speed. He declares
that the lamp had been broken wf1en
he applied the brakes, but insisted
that he did mot feel5the car strike any
thing and that he felt no Jolt or Jar
save the jolt and jar from the putting
on the brakes. -.s,T II slssw1s
He stated thatvit was his Scustoh1 10
drive on the east road when running
to Racine and thatf for this reason he
was. certain that he drove in the east
road. II was right on top.ofsthes OBJ
jet, said Collier, when nthe car
struck it and I can not say that it was
a man. The car was QUITE a ways
from Central Park and / saw the OBJ
ject just little after we passed the
top Of the hill. I believe hat it was
nearer the bridge than Central Park ~
Collier stated positively that the
place where the man was found was
not the place that he slowed down his
car, but that he had slowed down
much further back on the road.
When asked whether or not he struck
man on the road, Collier said, 81
don't know whether we did or did not
strike man. We surmised that we
did, but would not be willing to
swear that we did or did not strike
man. We were greatly excited and
did not go back and on the following
morning when we heard of the find
ing Of the body we concluded that it
was man that we struck s As
Collier testified that he first knew
that the glass in the lamp on the car
was cracked when he reached the
home of Farmer Hansen IN the town
of Paris, and that he had personally
taken the glass from the lamp on the
following morning. He insisted that
the tank on the car was not LEAKING,
but that on reaching the Hansen farm
he had discovered that it had been
pushed back in one corner.
District Attorney Baker pressed
Collier to go into the story, against
the repeated objection Of Attorney
Fisher, and Justice Donahue ordered
that Collier answer the Questions.
The object ofthe examination of Col
lier was not apparent, as it cid not
have any immediate bearing on the
issue in the Montgomery case, but it
was evident that the District Attor.
ney desired to get from Golfers own
lips the story of the ride and the
death of Dreyer.
Collier was still on the stand when
the case was adjourned for the noon
hour, and his examination was con-
tinued in the afternoon.
The evidence in the afternoon was
largely repetition Of that given this
morning, and Collier repeatedly stated
that he could not state that man was
struck, as he had felt no sensation
other than sensation caused by the
sudden breaking of the machine. Col.
lier testified that only once during the
evening was the car slowed down. and
that was when the object was seen in
the road. He testified that he had
personally directed the removing of
the tank from the machine on the fol.
lowing morning and that he was aware
of the fact that there was small hole
in the tank near the top.
All of the testimony Of Collier was
received under objections as was ali
other testimony save that tending to
show tile testimony of Montgomery