Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-27
M'LfOb'S TESTIMONY
Nan Who Run Down and Killed
 MT Frost Tells Ills Story.


 on October 13 last was resumed in the superior court today before Judge Silas A. Robinson and jury. The cross-examination of Mrs Lucy Frost. the widow, was conducted by Colonel Burpee, who, with Attorney Carmody, Is counsel for the prisoner. They intend putting ID a very strong defense, for the verdict whatever It may be, shall have some influence on the civil suit for $5.000 which Mrs Frost has brought against A. M. Young, who was McLeod's employer !, at the time of the death of her hus- band and is at present.
 In her cross-examination Mrs Frost admitted that after the excitement attending the. accident had cooled oil. Mcleod offered to take her to her home on her farm on the Southmayd road, whither she and her husband were bent when the death dealing au- tomobile driven by Mcleod came along
 Colonel Burpee tried to make Mrs Frost admit that she had stated that just before the accident her husband pulled her back, as he said to her Look out" but Mrs Frost said he pushed her forward and that the au- tomobile grazed her right ankle.
 A few days after the accident Mrs Frost was visited by Mrs John H. Goss, daughter of A. M. Young, and she denied stating to Mrs Goss that her husband had pulled her beck just as the automobile was upon them, or that she said the accident was her own fault. ...e also denied saying to Mrs Goss that she hoped Mcleod would be acquitted. What she did say was that she hoped everything would come out right, but the whole matter was out of her hands.
 The evidence of Dr A. A. Crane, medical examiner. was substantially what it wasAin the city court. That Is to say the killed mans head was crushed to pieces and that the blow was evidently received on the left side, which was the side that was turned toward the automobile when 1t knocked Frost down. It was the doctors opinion that Mcleod admit ted to him that he was going between ! fifteen and sixteen miles an hour when the accident occurred.
 \ Other witnesses, all telling sub ktantially the same story, were pr JCrane's daughter. Eunice. Robert Y Platt, principal of the Driggs school and Mrs Lillian F. Platt.
 Jennie Warren of Woodtic said she was at the waiting station near the shop of the Mattatuck Manufac- turing Co when she saw trolley car approach. It was within about ten feet of the station when she saw an automobile near the Porter house She thought Mrs Frost seemed to hesitate about crossing and then the automobile whizzed by and there wal . cloud of dust She turned her head away and when she again looked on the tracks there was the prostrate body of a man lying across them The automobile veered to the left oi the road near the Porter house and 1t did not seem to slacken It's speed bit before the accident. After she saw tle cloud of dust the car went along until it reached the terminus of the Southmayd road. She heard no warning sound from the approach ing automobile. and 1t was her opin' ion that the automobile was going good deal faster than the trolley car
 Superintendent George M. Beach I of the police department testified thai II after he had heard of the accident he \ dispatched some men to ascertain the II facts. Mcleod was brought to tho policc station. He had two conver \ sations with him about the speed he was going at. The first one took \ plece when he was brought to the sta ! tion, and he said that he was goinf l from twelve to fifteen miles an hour The second time, he said. he thought he was going at eighteen miles ar hour. He thought the excitement under which Mcleod was at the time had cooled of when he made the sec ond statement. but in his testimon! before the coroner he said he though Mcleod was considerably agitated iIIe did not wish to change the lattel lstatement.
 Assistant States Attorney Kellogt khen announced that he would intro huce McI.eod's evidence as given pc fore the coroner. Colonel Burpee ob 6ccted to all parts of 1t that did no ,ertaip to the case in question. Th' roroner. he said. had followed hi ,suaI course. and obtained from Nc cod his history as a chauffeur II ras to this he objected. he said.
 r. hi. teef1rony 10 the coroner rcI aol stated that he blew his hori In seeing a trolley car ahead oi nm nd that he was about 1JO feet m ths car of the car then. He saw q mai nh n woman get of the car and agnir low his horn. He was then going al
 rate of fifteen miles an hour. Th' ,an and woman stood on the trolley -.ct and the woman seemed 10 hesi ,+. whether to cross or not. fis souybt that if he went to the rigih
 . would run them down so he kep
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 hre he knew 1t. He could then have
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 looked back and saw the man or
 e ground he knew he was dead
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 scen the automobile strike fiIs
 mn Mrs Frost was there. too. and
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